Irène Jacob
Also Known As: Irene Jacob, Iren Zhakob, ایرن ژاکوب
Biography: Irène Marie Jacob (born 15 July 1966) is a French-born Swiss actress considered one of the preeminent French actresses of her generation. Jacob gained international recognition and acclaim through her work with Polish film director Krzysztof Kieslowski, who cast her in the lead role of The Double Life of Véronique and Three Colors: Red. She came to represent an image of European sophistication, through her "classic beauty and thoughtful, almost melancholic style of acting." Description above from the Wikipedia article Irène Jacob, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Suresnes, Hauts-de-Seine, France
Birthday: July 15, 1966
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Gender: Female
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Three Colors: Red
Overview: Part-time model Valentine unexpectedly befriends a retired judge after she runs over his dog. At first, the grumpy man shows no concern about the dog, and Valentine decides to keep it. But the two form a bond when she returns to his house and catches him listening to his neighbors’ phone calls.
Genres: Drama Mystery Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1994-05-12
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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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Au Revoir les Enfants
Overview: Au revoir les enfants tells a heartbreaking story of friendship and devastating loss concerning two boys living in Nazi-occupied France. At a provincial Catholic boarding school, the precocious youths enjoy true camaraderie—until a secret is revealed. Based on events from writer-director Malle’s own childhood, the film is a subtle, precisely observed tale of courage, cowardice, and tragic awakening.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1987-10-07
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U.S. Marshals
Overview: U.S. Marshal Sam Gerard is accompanying a plane load of convicts from Chicago to New York. The plane crashes spectacularly, and Mark Sheridan escapes. But when Diplomatic Security Agent John Royce is assigned to help Gerard recapture Sheridan, it becomes clear that Sheridan is more than just another murderer.
Genres: Thriller Crime Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-03-06
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Beyond the Clouds
Overview: Four tales, each centered on a woman, journey inward to explore the enigmatic reality of their lives, connecting through a single narrative thread.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1995-10-27
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The Wild One
Overview: In the work of Jack Garfein - Holocaust survivor, theater and film director, key figure in the formation of the Actors Studio - past and and present freely intermingled to contribute to memorable stage productions and in two films, many which were ahead of their time in tackling such issues as homosexuality, race and violence. Powered by his vivid recollections and augmented with readings by Willem Dafoe, The Wild One traces Garfein’s life: his Czechoslovakian youth, his family’s fleeing the Nazis, surviving in Auschwitz and other camps, his 1946 arrival at 16 in New York and coming under the wing of Lee Strasberg, Hollywood, his marriage to actress Carroll Baker.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-05-10
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Who by Fire
Overview: Jeff is invited by his friend Max to travel deep in the woods and stay at the isolated estate of acclaimed director Blake Cadieux. He has high expectations for the trip: Cadieux is an artist he greatly admires – plus Aliocha, Max’s older sister, with whom he is secretly in love, is also coming. The untouched and hostile forest and the director’s huge cabin become the territory where the youthful search for ideals and freedom confronts the wounded egos of the adults.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2024-07-31
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Four Play
Overview: A romantic comedy about the fleeting attractions between men and women on the set of a popular British sitcom.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-09-02
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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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Talking Heads 2021
Overview: The film was inspired by one of the most important documentaries shot by Krzysztof Kieślowski, Talking Heads (1980). The director asked his interlocutors seemingly simple questions, such as “Who are you?” and “What do you want?”.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2021-09-23
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Déchaînées
Overview: Lucy, a 19-year old law student and intern at a Swiss television network in Geneva, comes across her double in archival footage about the woman’s liberation movement in the 70’s. Her family’s resistance to talk about this time convinces Lucy that a secret lurks behind this mysterious woman, named Genevieve.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2009-11-02
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Spy Games
Overview: A romantic suspense-comedy about CIA agent Harry (Bill Pullman) and SVR agent Natasha (Irene Jacob) fighting to save the world, their lives and secret love in the post cold war Helsinki
Genres: Action Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-09-10
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The Big Brass Ring
Overview: Blake Pellarin is on the campaign trail to become president of the United States. While making a stop in St. Louis, a chance encounter brings his past back to haunt him.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-04-20
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Victory
Overview: Axel Heyst is an American recluse with a dubious past living in the Dutch East Indies port of Surabaya circa 1913. Staying in a German hotel there, Heyst becomes entranced with a member of the hotel's all-female orchestra.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-12-13
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Incognito
Overview: Harry Donovan is an art forger who paints fake Rembrandt picture for $500,000. The girl he meets and gets into bed with in Paris, Marieke, turns out to be an arts expert Harry's clients are using to check the counterfeit picture he painted.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-11-14
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Othello
Overview: The evil Iago pretends to be friend of Othello in order to manipulate him to serve his own end in the film version of this Shakespeare classic.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-12-15
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My Life So Far
Overview: A memoir of the lives of a family growing up on a post World War I British estate headed up by a strong disciplinarian, her daughter, her inventor husband, their ten year old son and his older sister. Through the household comes a number of suitors hoping to impress the young woman, including an aviator. When the elder woman's son shows up at the estate with his French fiancé, everything gets thrown into turmoil. The young boy takes a sudden interest in her sexual allure and his father is disturbed by his own non-Victorian feelings.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-08-25
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The Education of Fairies
Overview: A man's life is turned upside down after he is abandoned by the woman he loves.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2006-06-23
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The Landlords
Overview: Directed by Rémi Waterhouse, Mille Millièmes is centered around an eccentric ensemble of apartment residents. Kindness is noticeably absent among their quarters, as demonstrated by a dating pair of neighbors whose request to have their apartments connected was flatly denied. To make matters worse, beggars gathering at a charity event are cruelly tormented by various tenants during the Christmas season. Last but not least is the Portuguese concierge whose services are in danger of being replaced by a more cost-effective alternative, and a widow whose recent loss earns her no sympathy from the rent-demanding landlords.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2002-08-07
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The Inner Life of Martin Frost
Overview: A writer awakens one day to find a strange but beautiful woman in bed with him. He quickly falls in love with her, thinking he has found his muse, but as time passes she becomes more and more unattainable.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-10-11
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The French Kissers
Overview: An awkward adolescent boy and his angst-ridden friends try their best to fit in amongst a cast of varied characters.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2009-06-10
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The Dust of Time
Overview: A, an American film director of Greek ancestry, is making a film that tells his story and the story of his parents. It is a tale that unfolds in Italy, Germany, Russia, Kazakhstan, Canada and the USA. The main character is Eleni, who is claimed and claims the absoluteness of love. At the same time the film is a long journey into the vast history and the events of the last fifty years that left their mark on the 20th century. The characters in the film move as though in a dream. The dust of time confuses memories. A searches for them and experiences them in the present.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 2008-11-22
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Rio Sex Comedy
Overview: A group of strangers from different countries end up on Rio's beaches. Seeking self-fulfillment, they look for answers to existential questions. Yet it isn't until their different paths cross that they begin to understand why they came.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-09-16
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Re-belles
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2023-05-30
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Gang of Four
Overview: Anna, Joyce, Claude and Lucia are all students under the tutelage of Constance Dumas, a renowned film instructor. Lucia moves in with the other girls. Soon after, she is attacked on the street outside her home and saved by a mysterious stranger.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1989-02-08
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Autumn
Overview: Jean-Pierre is a hit man in Paris. He wants to stop; an incentive is reconnecting to Michelle, a childhood friend. He's ready to commit himself to her, but she has her own secrets: she sells bomb components to thugs. He hears rumors of a missing briefcase, which he finds in Michelle's flat. He asks no questions, and soon both of them are in trouble with Jean-Pierre's ex-employer and with her bomb buyers. Two other characters complicate the maneuvering: Jean-Pierre's best friend, who's always losing money on the ponies, and the ex-employer's new contract killer, a seemingly fragile woman. Is there any way that Jean-Pierre can protect Michelle and escape with his life? Written by
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-09-10
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Battle of the Brave
Overview: In the mid-18th Century, as England and France battle over control of Canada, an epic romance between a peasant woman and a trapper unfurls
Genres: Drama History Romance War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2004-11-19
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Shoot to Live
Overview: A documentary on filmmaker Claude Lelouch, following him over seven years.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2022-05-11
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Runaways
Overview: Two girls meet on a train: Prune is looking for her father whom she has not seen since she was a little girl, Marina is looking for the mother she has never had. Prune learns that her father took his life and then she accidentally dies by drowning. Marina decides to assume her identity and begins a correspondence with Prune's mother.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1995-08-23
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Kieslowski: Dialogue
Overview: Documentary featuring a candid interview with Kieślowski and rare behind-the-scenes footage from the set of The Double Life of Véronique
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1991-01-01
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Still Alive: A Film About Krzysztof Kieslowski
Overview: Maria Zmarz-Koczanowicz directed this insightful TV documentary (2005) tracing the Polish filmmaker's career. Former classmates reminisce about Kieslowski's happy beginnings at the Lodz film school and how his dissatisfaction with some of his early documentaries prompted the dramatic work and stylistic experimentation that led to his monumental series of films The Decalogue (1989). Wim Wenders, Agnieszka Holland, and Juliette Binoche are among the many admirers weighing in on his hard-driving work methods and preoccupation with the ephemeral. In Polish, French, and German with subtitles.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2005-02-27
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Marie Trintignant : Le Choix du jeu
Overview: This film revisits the career and development of Marie Trintignant through the loving and often amused eyes of her father Jean-Louis Trintignant, as well as those of the actors and directors with whom she worked.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2021-09-01
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The Secret of Sarah Tombelaine
Overview: Legend has it that Archangel Michael confronted the Dragon and imprisoned him under a huge stone called today Mont Saint Michel. Winter 1991, the Mount is deserted. Unaware of the curse that keeps her there, Sarah transforms herself every night into a strange creature that feeds the dragon the dreams of sleeping men.
Genres: Fantasy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1991-07-10
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Love Flesh
Overview: During the course of a series of voyages, the pocket cameras of Pippo Delbono capture unique moments, ordinary and extraordinary meetings. From a hotel room in Paris to another in Budapest, from Istanbul to Bucharest, the journeys weave a fabric of the contemporary world. Its testimonials – some famous, others anonymous – say or dance their vision of the universe.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2013-02-06
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Les Dominos
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Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2020-11-01
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La solitude du pouvoir
Overview: Pierre Vasseur is the French president. He has a busy schedule: resolving political crises, abating popular anger, tolerating sarcastic journalists, and parrying opposition attacks-not to mention dealing with the tense relationship he has with his daughter.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2012-12-12
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The Man Who Made Angels Fly
Overview: When the lights dim and the stage is revealed, Meschke channels life through the strings of his puppets, triggering the spiritual connection between the creator and his alter-egos: the charismatic Don Quixote, the loving Penelope, the inquisitive Baptiste, or the mysterious Antigone. THE MAN WHO MADE ANGELS FLY is a poetic story about a master of his craft that has inspired audiences to reflect upon common issues of suffering and the mortal coil. Visionary and un-biographic, imaginary tribute to the puppeteer.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-06-30
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We Love You, You Bastard
Overview: A war photographer and absent father, who spends more time taking care of his camera than his four daughters, enjoys a happy life in the Alps with his new girlfriend. But his life is turned upside down the day that his best friend tries to reconcile him with his family by telling them a big lie.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2014-04-02
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The Secret Garden
Overview: A young British girl born and reared in India loses her neglectful parents in an earthquake. She is returned to England to live at her uncle's castle. Her uncle is very distant due to the loss of his wife ten years before. Neglected once again, she begins exploring the estate and discovers a garden that has been locked and forgotten. Aided by one of the servants' boys, she begins restoring the garden, and eventually discovers some other secrets of the manor.
Genres: Drama Family Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-08-13
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All Men Are Mortal
Overview: Melodrama about a man cursed with immortality, who tries to declare his undying love for a depressed actress.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-11-17
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Dying of the Light
Overview: Evan Lake, a veteran CIA agent, has been ordered to retire. But when his protégé uncovers evidence that Lake's nemesis, the terrorist Banir, has resurfaced, Lake goes rogue, embarking on a perilous, intercontinental mission to eliminate his sworn enemy.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-12-04
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Shikun
Overview: A diverse cross-section of Israeli society converges in a single multi-use building, the Shikun. As people of different languages, origins and generations come together in highly theatrical encounters, they grapple with the current state of affairs. In a poignant metaphor inspired by Eugène Ionesco’s famous play “Rhinoceros”, some begin to turn into rhinoceroses, while others resist.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: he
Release Date: 2024-03-06
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Tales of Mexico
Overview: The space will be witness of dreams, hopes, disappointments and dramatic destinies of its residents, delivering an intimate human history of Mexico through the decades. La Habitación will reunite eight directors that will expose the reality of each historical period resulting in a profound and inspiring portrait of modern Mexico.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2017-10-20
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Le Voyage en pyjama
Overview: 40-something Victor, humanities professor and amateur meteorologist, is a madcap, a friendly dabbler, who lives day by day, alongside is wife Anne.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2024-01-17
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Fallen Heroes
Overview: Forty year-old Bruno Ledeux, seen sitting across from the doctor, gives the impression of a man who is no longer young but not yet old.Condemned to remain nothing more than a son, he begins his downward slide, as if a fog had shut him in a cage from which there is no escape. Bruno can never have children .He says nothing about this diagnosis to Anne, his beloved wife. Nor does he tell her about a large debt he has taken out. It is as if Bruno were a man without any qualities or talents. A mediocre man who has lost all pride. Though now everything appears hazy in his memory. Like a river that flows peacefully, showing no signs of the hidden currents at work below. But at times those currents can return to the surface. Without warning.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2008-03-28
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Paris, Love, Cut
Overview: At 45 Arnaud wants to have a child with Chloe, shoot his second movie....but he is blocked.After leaving Chloe he went back to teaching theater and met Gabrielle...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2015-04-01
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Hôtel Silence
Overview: Jean, in his fifties, has lost his lust for life. He leaves Canada for a faraway country, somewhere in Europe. A beautiful place to end his days, he thought. But that was without counting on the formidable resilience of the inhabitants and residents of the Hotel Silence.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2024-03-29
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Errors of Youth
Overview: The oddest things come in pairs. In 1989, there were two foreign films on the market whose titles translated to Errors of Youth or Youthful Indiscretion. One was a Russian film, the other was a French picture, originally titled Erreur de Jeunesse. In this one, would-be poet Francis Frappat breezes through a number of relationships. Of paramount importance to Frappat are his attempts to seduce the lovely Géraldine Danon.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1989-05-01
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Sayonara
Overview: The world's first human-android acting duo, called Android Theater Project, is the collaborative brainchild of noted Japanese playwright Oriza Hirata and the leading robotics scientist Hiroshi Ishiguro. "Sayonara" is a remakable android play and has been adapted to feature film by the acclaimed filmmaker Koji Fukada (Hospitalité, Au revoir l’été). In this film project the setting of the story is largely expanded, depicting time and space in a way which can only be achieved in film, examining life and death though the communication between dying human and immortal android.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-11-21
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Meeting with Pol Pot
Overview: Democratic Kampuchea (Cambodia) - 1978. Three French journalists are invited by the Khmer Rouge to conduct an exclusive interview of the regime's leader, Pol Pot. The country seems ideal. But behind the Potemkin village, the Khmer Rouge regime is declining and the war with Vietnam threatens to invade the country. The regime is looking for culprits, secretly carrying out a large scale genocide. Under the eyes of the journalists, the beautiful picture cracks, revealing the horror. Their journey progressively turns into a nightmare. Freely inspired by journalist Elizabeth Becker's account in When the war was over.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: km
Release Date: 2024-06-05
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The Legend of Princess Parva
Overview: The island of Kiam was once a paradise place with a kind Maharaja as a ruler. But one day the villainous Malaw killed the island’s ruler and deprived the Crown Prince Shiva of the throne. The insidious Malaw had the prince locked up in a dungeon in the palace’s underground labyrinth, and he announced to the Kiam residents that he would kill Shiva if they only tried to rebel. Then the Old Sage Swami, aided by programmer Agni, came into contact with the Light of Crystal. That’s what he called a girl named Parva, who embodied radiant innocence and was born of the same astral combination as Prince Shiva. Only she and her love could save the prince and bring peace back to the island of Kiam.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2003-02-12
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The Prediction
Overview: A popular middle-aged writer is warned by a fortuneteller that he will die in exactly 24 hours. He then meets a man, who claims to be him. The writer uses this bizarre situation to change his life and take revenge.
Genres: Romance Thriller
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1993-11-24
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Letter from an Unknown Woman
Overview: Vienna, in the 1930s. The attractive and famous writer Albert Rank receives the letter from a stranger. He discovers that she devoted her entire life to her boundless love. In her letter, Rose looks back on a variety of meetings with Albert: Since childhood, she is slavishly in love with him and she never got away from her throughout her life. In many encounters Rank could not recognize them, even if the shared moments had been wonderful. As an adult woman, Rose's love is too painful to go on, and she has dire consequences.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-12-31
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The Marcorelle Affair
Overview: François Marcorelle, an investigation magistrate in Chambéry, finds himself in the room of a young Polish girl that he met in a restaurant
Genres: Drama Fantasy Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2000-09-13
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Les enfants rouges
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2014-01-22
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Eternity
Overview: Valentine marries at the end of the 19th century, and love passes through her family from generation to generation.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2016-09-07
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To Make a Film Is to Be Alive
Overview: A behind-the-scenes look by wife Enrica Antonioni into Michelangelo Antonioni's passion for cinema as he directs Beyond the Clouds (1995), assisted by filmmaker Wim Wenders.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1995-09-02
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Dark
Overview: A government agent must track down and kill a terrorist before he loses his full memory from dementia.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-12-11
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Why War
Overview: In 1932, Albert Einstein was invited by the League of Nations to address a letter on any subject to any person. He chose to correspond with Sigmund Freud about avoiding war. To this day, the correspondence about war of two great thinkers of all time proves to be more relevant than ever. Inspired by this correspondence between Albert Einstein and Sigmund Freud almost a century ago, the film Why War traces the roots of war, and embarks on a search for an explanation of the savagery of wars that inhabit our world.
Genres: Documentary Drama
Original Language: he
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Angela Merkel, une histoire allemande
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2017-09-21
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The Pornographer: A Love Story
Overview: The relationship between a director and an actress takes a turn when the lines between art and life are crossed.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-05-02
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Le Moulin de Daudet
Overview: Based on the life of French novelist Alphonse Daudet.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-01-01
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Two Snails Set Off
Overview: A forest full of animated animals encourage a pair of snails, who are fully clad in black because they are in mourning for a dead leaf, to celebrate the new spring and reclaim the colors of life. Based on the children's poem by Jacques Prévert entitled "Chanson des escargots qui font à l'enterrement" ("Song of the snails who are on their way to a funeral").
Genres: Animation Family Fantasy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2017-06-08
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Claude
Overview: A hapless, bad-luck prone loser meets a free-spirited Frenchwoman who inspires him to get his life back on track.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-01-11
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The Lanzac Clan
Overview: A war of inheritance in the Lanzac family, a rich industrial family from Bordeaux, against a backdrop of family secrets and the unsaid. Elisabeth Lanzac authoritatively leads an important industrial group specializing in wood. Her eldest son, Nicolas, is her named successor, but he dies in a road accident. When the will is read, the family is stunned to learn that he has left his share to Julien, his secret son...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2013-03-02
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Kieślowski Cannes 94
Overview: A documentary about the showing of Krzysztof Kieślowski's film RED at the 1994 Cannes Film Festival, including interviews with the director and the cast of the film.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1994-12-31
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François Truffaut l'insoumis
Overview: This portrait of the world-famous French director based on his personal correspondance reveals the little known insurgent side of his personnality. Featuring interviews with close collaborators, friends and family, this definitive documentary tells his intimate story, from the streets of Paris to the filmmaking accolades and high profile marriages at the height of his career.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2014-11-02
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À cause des filles…?
Overview: At a wedding where the husband runs away, everyone has his own story to tell about the trivial misfortune of a person in love with someone that slips away. The guests paint a full picture of clumsiness, lies, and bad luck, that makes impossible, whatever the age, all attempts of seduction... or close enough !
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2019-01-30
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Letter to Theo
Overview: The filmmaker Théo Angelopoulos died on January 24th, 2012, knocked down by a motorbike on the set of his final film. In his unfinished film, he was telling the destinies of the victims of the Greek crisis. The list of victims of the crisis has only grown longer, this destitution echoing another that Théo had sensed was coming: that of the massive arrival of refugees who find themselves trapped in Greece by the closure of the borders. Yet citizen resistance is being organized and fights every day to bring those in danger of obliteration out of the shadows. Ironically, the ambulance supposed to come to his rescue broke down because budgetary restrictions had made it impossible to maintain the vehicle. The crisis itself killed Théo. This is a letter addressed to him in the form of a film.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2019-01-24
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Romantic Guide to Lost Places
Overview: Benno and Allegra: he's over fifty, English, and drinks like a fish; she's twenty years younger, a travel blogger with lots of imagination. They both live off their lies and have no intention of stopping now. Next-door neighbors who had never met until the day he wound up on the wrong landing, and nothing would ever be the same. Sheer chance leads this odd couple on a flight towards lost or forgotten places, where their mutual support makes for self-discovery.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2020-09-24
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The Scientific Proof of the Existence of God
Overview: Jean-Luc and his old gang of 1968 pacifists, now in their seventies, reunite to make a film protesting against Swiss military export. After blowing up an arms factory they are brought to justice, but many hail them as heroes.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2019-09-25
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Ella Maillart: Double Journey
Overview: Summer 1939. Ella Maillart and Annemarie Schwarzenbach leave Europe for Asia. Ella hopes to make an ethnographic film and to help Annemarie get off drugs. In Kabul she realizes to have lost all certainties and faces the difficult search for herself. For a year she travels alone in the British Indies, a keen observer of the colonial system, living from moment to moment while war ravages Europe. Letters, diaries, film footage and photographs reveal a portrait of Ella Maillart (1903-1997), one of the greatest travelers and photographers of the last century. Narrated by the voice of a great actress, Irène Jacob.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-04-19
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Villa Caprice
Overview: Famous lawyer, Luc Germon adds Gilles Fontaine, one of the most powerful bosses in France, to his clients. He is suspected of having acquired a magnificent property, Villa Caprice, under questionable conditions.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2021-06-02
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The Easy Way Out
Overview: Patrick, a travel agent in his early 30s, lives with Arthur, an immigration lawyer; but for a long time, Patrick has been sleeping on an air mattress on the floor of their bedroom. His younger brother, Tony, plans to marry his high school sweetheart but is having an affair that is far more satisfying than his relationship with his fiancee. Their older brother, Ryan, is divorced, living at home and working at his parents’ hopelessly unprofitable men’s clothing store. And McCauley soon makes achingly clear that the parents’ marriage is far from happy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2015-03-04
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Home Away From Home
Overview: A taxi driver, a young girl and a backpacker simultaneously experience a wonderful journey in Tokyo, where they find connections to their own homes in Africa, Europe and Southeast Asia.Throughout their journey, they run into the same Japanese woman named Akiko. Meanwhile, a writer in Paris recalls her encounter with Akiko in Tokyo.
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-06-02
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Enak
Overview: The astronaut Charles Enak refuses to come back to Earth after completing a mission in orbit. While he also refuses to give any explanation for his behaviour, the world enters its biggest crisis since the Cold War. As journalists try to find out more about Enak and his backstory in communist Poland, they discover that he possesses the ability to influence people's sub-consciousness.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1992-01-01
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The Prominents
Overview: Centers on a group of Nazi Germany's most prominent prisoners as they are transported across Europe to be used as bargaining chips in the German surrender.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
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Maigret et le crime de la rue de Bellechasse
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Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: fr
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