Marc Barbé
Also Known As: Marc Barbe
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Nancy, Meurthe-et-Moselle, France
Birthday: May 06, 1961
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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La Vie en Rose
Overview: From the mean streets of the Belleville district of Paris to the dazzling limelight of New York's most famous concert halls, Edith Piaf's life was a constant battle to sing and survive, to live and love. Raised in her grandmother's brothel, Piaf was discovered in 1935 by nightclub owner Louis Leplee, who persuaded her to sing despite her extreme nervousness. Piaf became one of France's immortal icons, her voice one of the indelible signatures of the 20th century.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2007-02-14
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The Three Musketeers: D'Artagnan
Overview: D'Artagnan, a spirited young Gascon, is left for dead after trying to save a noblewoman from being kidnapped. Once in Paris, he tries by all means to find his attackers, unaware that his quest will lead him to the very heart of a war where the future of France is at stake. Aided by King's Musketeers Athos, Porthos and Aramis, he faces the machinations of villainous Cardinal Richelieu and Milady de Winter, while falling in love with Constance, the Queen's confidante.
Genres: Adventure Action Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2023-04-05
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Planet B
Overview: France, 2039. One night, a group of activists who are being pursued by the State vanish without a trace. Julia Bombarth is one of them. When she awakens, she finds herself trapped in an entirely unfamiliar world: PLANET B.
Genres: Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2024-12-25
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Atlantika
Overview: On April 15, 1912, Jack L., radio operator on a military vessel, reported an SOS signal from the Titanic. He was ordered by command control not to reveal this information. Later in classified military archives Jack L. found information that radio messages from the Titanic appeared on the airwaves every 6 years in 1918, 1924, 1930, 1942... 1996, and 2002. Ever since Jack L. went on air for radio contact with the Titanic every 6 years. Saving the Titanic became the purpose and the goal of his life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-01-01
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Intimate Enemies
Overview: A drama following a French platoon during Algeria's war of independence.
Genres: Drama War History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2007-10-03
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Silent Voice
Overview: An elderly woman wants to meet her son’s murderer. A sixteen-year-old girl who has crossed paths with a young hoodlum needs an adult to accompany her to the prison visiting room. A young medical supplies delivery man is offered a deal to take the place of a gangster inmate so that the latter may escape. Two women, one man, three destinies that come together in the visiting room of a prison…
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2009-12-09
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The Three Musketeers: Milady
Overview: D'Artagnan, on a quest to rescue the abducted Constance, runs into the mysterious Milady de Winter again. The tension between the Catholics and the Protestants finally escalates, as the king declares war — forcing the now four musketeers into battle. But as the war goes on, they are tested physically, mentally and emotionally.
Genres: Adventure Action Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2023-12-13
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Mozart's Sister
Overview: A re-imagined account of the early life of Maria Anna 'Nannerl' Mozart, five years older than Wolfgang and a musical prodigy in her own right.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2010-06-09
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Paddy
Overview: Jean and Paddy haven't recovered from Ben's death. Ben was Paddy's lover but also Jean's. Their threesome filled their existence. Today, while they still love each other, Jean and Paddy are torn apart.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1999-07-14
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The Ring Finger
Overview: When she is slightly hurt in the factory where she works, Iris quits her job and finds a new one as an assistant in a laboratory of a very peculiar kind. Without fully grasping what is at play around her, she gradually engages in a disturbing love affair with her enigmatic employer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2005-06-08
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The Duchess of Langeais
Overview: General Montriveau, having returned from the Napoleonic Wars in despair, quickly becomes enamored with Duchess Langeais. Across a series of nocturnal visitations, the Duchess mercilessly toys with her hot-tempered suitor, as the machinations of a shadowy conspiracy unfold in the background.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2007-03-28
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Sombre
Overview: A serial killer stalks a woman he befriended after her car broke down.
Genres: Drama Horror
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1998-08-06
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My Way
Overview: A biopic of French pop star Claude Francois, most famous for co-writing the song 'My Way'. Tracing his life from his childhood in Egypt through his success in France to his untimely death in Paris in 1978.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2012-03-14
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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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Almayer's Folly
Overview: A tale of an occidental merchant, Kaspar Almayer, whose dreams of riches for his beloved daughter, Nina, collapse under the weight of his own greed and prejudice.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2012-01-25
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Night Shift
Overview: A worker in a bottle factory, Pierre decides to switch from day shift to night shift. In his new team, he runs into Fred, a charismatic and violent guy. Fred says loudly that Pierre is his boyfriend. In fact, he never misses an opportunity to bully or humiliate him. This could only be a bad joke. But the harassment continues in a downward spiral ...
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2001-03-14
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Le Cri de la soie
Overview: An illiterate seamstress has a powerful fetish for silk which gets her into trouble. The psychiatrist sent to help her becomes fascinated by her case and when he returns to France from World War One they fall in love, an affair that can only end in tragedy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1996-08-28
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Sommeil blanc
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Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2009-12-02
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The Untouchable
Overview: After learning from her mother that her father lives in India, a young woman goes there to meet him for the first time.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2006-12-06
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A New Life
Overview: A young American falls obsessively in love with a mysterious courtesan named Melania against the backdrop of a dilapidated Eastern European landscape.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2002-11-27
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Calm at Sea
Overview: October 1941. Eighteen months into France’s occupation by German troops, young Communist members of the Resistance shoot dead an officer of the German Army. In retaliation, Hitler demands the deaths of 150 Frenchmen, as 'retribution'. The targets are to be mostly young men believed to share the assassins’ political convictions. Most of these men are taken from an internment camp for opponents of the occupation; a 35-year-old French rural administrator is ordered to select the victims. Although the parish priest appeals to their conscience and moral sensibilities, both the German military and their French helpers slavishly follow their orders.
Genres: War Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2012-03-21
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Little Lion
Overview: A Senegalese teenager is recruited to pursue his dream of playing professional soccer in Europe.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2013-01-09
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The Nun
Overview: Suzanne Simonin describes her life of suffering in letters. As a young woman she is sent to a convent against her will. Since her parents cannot afford the dowry required for a marriage befitting her rank they decide she must instead become a nun. Although a kind and understanding Mother Superior helps her to learn the convent’s daily routine, Suzanne’s desire for freedom remains unabated. When the Mother Superior dies, Suzanne finds herself faced with reprisals, humiliation and harassment at the hands of the new Abbess and the other Sisters. For many years, Suzanne is subjected to bigotry and religious fanaticism. (Berlinale.de)
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2013-03-20
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Arrest Me
Overview: One evening, a woman enters a police station and confesses to having killed her violent husband several years ago. As she listens to her fantastic story, the policewoman is increasingly less inclined to arrest her. Just why is the woman so eager to confess her crime, and why is the policewoman so reluctant to take her into custody?
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2013-02-06
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Le Prochain film
Overview: At fifty Louis Gravet, a serious actor, would like to become a comedian. His brother Peter, a film director, has the idea of hiring him for the lead role of a comedy. Family circumstances, their wives, their children, niece, lead him to make another film, new and unexpected.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2013-08-21
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My Life and Times with Antonin Artaud
Overview: May, 1946, in Paris young poet Jacques Prevel meets Antonin Artaud, the actor, artist, and writer just released from a mental asylum. Over ten months, we follow the mad Artaud from his cruel coaching of an actress in his "theatre of cruelty" to his semi-friendship with Prevel who buys him drugs and hangs on his every word. Meanwhile, Prevel divides his time between Jany, his blond, young, drug-hazed mistress, and Rolande, his dark-haired, long-suffering wife, who has a child during this time. Cruelty, neglect, poverty, egoism, madness, and the pursuit of art mix on the Left Bank.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1993-11-16
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Youth Without God
Overview: This French-Belgian drama, based on a novel by Odon von Horvath, is set in 1938 in a German city along the banks of the Rhine and Ruhr rivers. It attempts to provide insight as to why certain German youths were so easily lead into becoming Nazis by using two narrators, one a teacher who challenged the movement and another by a student who embraced it. Pabst teaches a group of teenage boys, all of whom seem to be young Nazis. The trouble begins when Pabst and a WW I vet are assigned to take the class to a military camp and a nature outing for urban kids. While there a boy is brutally murdered and they blame one local girl. During her trial, Pabst speaks out against Hitler and becomes pariah. Still he continues investigating the death, at great personal expense until at last he brings the real killer to justice.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1996-05-28
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Grand Expectations
Overview: Summer 2019. Just graduated from Sciences Po, Madeleine leaves to prepare the orals of the ENA in Corsica with Antoine, her lover with whom she shares very left-wing political convictions. On a small deserted road, an unexpected encounter will seal their fate.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2023-03-22
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Les cinq parties du monde
Overview: The story of 2 sailors on July 21 1969
Genres: Drama Comedy Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2012-09-27
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Charell
Overview: Near the Bois de Boulogne, Daniel meets Charell by accident. The two men haven't seen each other in twenty years.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2006-05-22
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Michel Vay
Overview: In a broken world, Michel Vay's escape is thwarted by a series of unexpected encounters. Will he be able to take flight?
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2023-04-06
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Mission sacrée
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Genres: Thriller Drama TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2011-09-27
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French Cuisine
Overview: François and Charlotte directed together a gourmet hotel and restaurant on the edge of the sea, but their marital relationship is not fixed beauty: obsessive hard, Francis wants his first star in the Michelin Guide while Charlotte, at the dawn of the quarantine, dreams of a first child. This already complicated situation will literally explode the day where Charlotte's first husband, Alex, disembarked in their lives while everyone believed him dead in the terrible tsunami of 2004...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2015-12-30
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Coupable
Overview: When the dead body of Mr Kaplan is found, a kitchen knife in the back, all eyes turn to the maid. When the widow reveals that her departed husband was incapable of giving her children, all eyes turn to the widow. Beneath this passionate crime, a modern day detective will discover that temptation, devotion, remorse and desire are the best fuels for killing love.
Genres: Crime Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2008-02-27
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Lads
Overview: Ethan, 20, becomes an apprentice jockey in a racing stable. He discovers a talent, a passion, and begins to dream of a better future. But among the jockeys, places are hard to come by and competition is fierce. Out of a hundred lads, only one will go pro. If he wants to stand out from the crowd, Ethan is going to have to take some risks...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2025-04-02
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Regular Lovers
Overview: 1968 and 1969 in Paris: during and after the student and trade union revolt. François is 20, a poet, dodging military service. He takes to the barricades, but won't throw a Molotov cocktail at the police. He smokes opium and talks about revolution with his friend, Antoine, who has an inheritance and a flat where François can stay. François meets Lilie, a sculptor who works at a foundry to support herself. They fall in love. A year passes; François continues to write, talk, smoke, and be with Lilie. Opportunities come to Lilie: what will she and François do?
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2005-09-30
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The Other Laurens
Overview: Gabriel Laurens, fifty years old, is a «private investigator». When his fifteen-year-old niece Jade comes into his life and asks him to investigate her father’s death, the detective is confronted with memories he thought were buried forever. Confronted with the ghosts of his past, Gabriel Laurens finds himself caught up in a strange investigation involving pretense, fantasy and drug trafficking.
Genres: Mystery Thriller Crime Fantasy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2023-09-26
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A Perfect Man
Overview: A struggling writer finds a shortcut to fame, but a blackmailer threatens to ruin his perfect life.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2015-03-18
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Les Poussières
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2024-03-20
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The Queen of Clubs
Overview: Aurélien and Argine have never been able to leave each other. Brother and sister, they have always lived together. Aurélien secretly makes ends meet for them by dealing in stolen metal. One night, his accomplice Simon suddenly arrives.
Genres: Thriller Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2010-01-13
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Toothache
Overview: Andrew, an English writer, shares a seedy apartment in Paris with his young French partner Anna. While her friend Justice is due to arrive from London, Anna's friend Bibi tells her that she is pregnant with him.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-08-07
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Après la pluie, le beau temps
Overview: Rose Bonbon, a small singer of light variety with a naughty and colorful imagination, is in the glue with Roger, a characterful brute who thinks he is a manager. Between shabby hotels and cheap restaurants, she meets the handsome Dubel, an impresario on the sidelines. He hires Rose at the drop of a hat because he has to replace Hermine Zibeline for a tour in the Paris region with the famous Billie Boys from Broadway.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2003-06-09
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I Am Kombi
Overview: Seen by many as a cool and friendly camper van, a lost and confused Kombi VW bus decides to take a trip around the globe in search of his true identity. Seen through the eyes of several different owners of this iconic bus, Kombi stumbles across some engrossing facts that illustrate startling revelations concerning his past and present reputation. Guided by a secretive storyteller, we are taken on an informative adventure that is both entertaining and mysterious. - Written by ian simpson
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-12-04
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Ogres
Overview: There's drama aplenty for the travelling theatre company Chekhov Cabaret. The actors share the good times and the bad as a nomadic tribe where work and private life always mingle. They don’t mince words, these obstreperous actors with a sardonic sense of humour. Theatre always comes first.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2016-03-16
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Marie et le Loup
Overview: The strange relationship of a man and a woman, the latter having surprised the erotic antics of this one with a stranger, missing since.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2004-03-24
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No Chains, No Masters
Overview: 1759, Mauritius Island, Indian Ocean. The island is controlled by French settlers and the deported slave population live in fear while toiling in the sugar cane plantations. Unlike her disillusioned father Massamba, 16-year-old Mati refuses to keep her head down and accept her fate.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2024-09-18
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Sisters
Overview: Lyon, France in 1970s, Sibylle, Corinne, and Georgette are sisters who share everything, as they live with their Italian mother. Sibylle is the only blonde in the family, except for their father who abandoned them, and she feels isolated. She dreams of meeting her French father one day.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2009-12-16
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Fox-Terrier
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2017-01-28
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Berlin Telegram
Overview: Leila is a singer-songwriter who lives in Brussels. When Antoine, the man she is in love with, suddenly walks out on her for another woman, she leaves for Berlin to start a new life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2012-11-05
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Les fleurs bleues
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2014-06-18
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Gauguin: Voyage to Tahiti
Overview: In 1891, the French painter Paul Gauguin leaves Paris and travels to Tahiti to renew his art as a free man, far from the European artistic conventionalism. On his journey of discovery, he faces solitude and disease, but he also knows the beauty of wild nature and the love of Tehura, a young native girl who becomes his wife and model.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2017-09-20
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7 Days
Overview: Ivan and Chiara meet on a Sicilian island to prepare the wedding for Ivan’s brother and Chiara’s best friend. Despite the fact that Ivan is determined not to repeat the failure of his last relationship and Chiara does not want to jeopardise her marriage, the two fall in love with each other. They resolve to live their relationship for only a few days and then break it off when the wedding guests arrive on the island. But can love be controlled? Or is it love that controls us?
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2016-10-01
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Let the Corpses Tan
Overview: With a heavy haul of 250 kilograms of gold bullion, the grizzled criminal mastermind, Rhino, and his ruthless gang of cutthroats, head to a ramshackle retreat somewhere in the Mediterranean to lay low on a scorching day of July. However, the unexpected and rather unwelcome arrival of the bohemian writer, Bernier, his muse, Luce, along with a pair of no-joke gendarmes further complicates things, as the frail allegiances will soon be put to the test.
Genres: Thriller Crime Action Horror Western
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2017-10-18
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Close Enemies
Overview: Driss and Manuel both grew up on the same council estate. An estate where the sense of belonging to your patch is much stronger than the sense of belonging to a country, a nation or a culture... Manuel has assimilated this belonging, and he has even benefited from it and built his life on it. Driss, meanwhile, has shunned it. They will both have to face up to the consequences of their decisions – because they will each have a price to pay…
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2018-10-03
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Mélancolie ouvrière
Overview: Long live the strike! Lucie Baud, one of the pioneers of the women's movement, went with creativity, fighting spirit and the power of singing against the weapons of male-dominated capitalist society in nineteenth-century France. The film, based on true events, describes the ambitious fight of a silk moth. She stood up for the rights of the female working class to end maltreatment and oppression once and for all. For the revolution in women's rights, she even put her family back and fought to the end for their beliefs.
Genres: History Drama TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2018-02-07
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Eva
Overview: A playwright encounters a mysterious woman when he takes shelter in a chalet during a violent snowstorm and becomes obsessed with her.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2018-03-07
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Carwash
Overview: Thomas and Francis kidnap Wilfrid, the owner of a carwash. Surprisingly, he is delighted with being kidnapped, this company that imposes itself on him comes to brighten his own lonely life.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2019-10-23
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Le Mali (en Afrique)
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2016-04-07
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Ce qu'ils imaginent
Overview: "What they imagine" - Bernard chokes to death on a boiled egg while his wife looks on. Juliette watches him suffocate without intervening and, as though waking from a long sleep, she abruptly leaves their house, marching straight ahead. Arriving in Havre by chance, she tries to board a freighter, but must wait 48 hours. In the port, she encounters Santiago, a young man who sells chips from his father's mobile stall.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2004-03-17
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Goodbye Mister Wong
Overview: France works at her family’s karaoke restaurant on an old boat at the shores of lake Nam Ngum. She falls in love with Xana, an underwater logger, while Tony Wong, a quiet and sentimental Chinese billionaire which is exploiting this subwater richness declares his heart to her. It’s then that Hugo arrives in search of his wife Nadine who left one year ago… He enters a surreal period of exile, captivated by life around the lake’s splendour.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2020-11-23
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This Night
Overview: Werner Schroeter directed this dark and surreal tale of a man determined to save a lost lover from a grim fate at the hands of a violent mob. The city of Santa Maria is falling into chaos as an armed military faction is poised to take power in a coup d'etat. Ossorio used to call Santa Maria home, and he has returned in its darkest hour to find the woman he loves, hoping to rescue her from the violence that is lurks around the corner. As Ossorio searches for his love, he meets Victoria in a shabby hotel, who in turn introduces him to her father Barcala, who for the right price is willing to take Ossorio and another passenger away on his boat. While Ossorio is willing to pay Barcala what he wants, can he find the mysterious woman before the ship sets sail?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2009-01-07
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Hold Your Tears
Overview: A father, his son's girlfriend and a journey to pay their respects to the son who died in an accident and to his motorbike.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2021-03-03
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Cet été-là
Overview: The discovery of a dead young woman in an isolated part of France, goes hand in hand with the forest fires ravaging the countryside. Mysteriously, the body was moved from the place where it was originally found to a place in the nearby town. Alice, a young woman inspector from nearby Marseille is sent to investigate. Nothing prepares her for what she is about to get into.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2009-03-07
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Edouard and Charles
Overview: Paris, at the beginning of the 21st century. Edouard is a painter, Charles is a poet. The two artists are friends, but their adverse circumstances begin to weigh on them. Gulcan, a foreigner, suddenly appears. He has an idea.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2024-06-26
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Noir-soleil
Overview: After an earthquake in Naples bay, the body of a man is found. While Dino and his daughter, Victoria, travel to Italy for a DNA test, the past catches up with them.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2021-07-15
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L'apprentissage de la ville
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Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2001-01-01
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Les tremblements
Overview: Three brothers meet to go to the bedside of their sick mother. While she is dying, her husband and sons will try to survive her. As best they can, the father organizes daily life in silent distress while his sons do not know how to cope with the approaching death.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
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