Chick Ortega
Also Known As: Chico Rojo Ortega, Chick Ortéga
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Nancy, Meurthe-et-Moselle, France
Adult: No
Birthday: March 10, 1961
Age: 64 years old
Gender: Male
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Delicatessen
Overview: In a post-apocalyptic world, the residents of an apartment above the butcher shop receive an occasional delicacy of meat, something that is in low supply. A young man new in town falls in love with the butcher's daughter, which causes conflicts in her family, who need the young man for other business-related purposes.
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction Fantasy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1991-04-17
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Chicken-Kitchen
Overview: A man alone in a kitchen is overwhelmed by strange occurrences. A tender destructive (and choreographic!) folly sweaps him off his feet.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1984-01-01
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Michou d'Auber
Overview: Set in France during the struggle for Algerian independence, Messaoud's mother is terminally ill and his father, needing to work long hours in the factory, can't look after him, so decides to put him and his older brother Abdel in foster care. Sent to the countryside, Abdel has to work on a farm, but Messaoud is taken in by a childless woman, who conceals his Arab origins from her fiercely Gaullist ex-army husband. Re-named Michel/Michou, and with his hair comically dyed blond, the young boy quickly steals the hearts of both foster-parents, and eventually is instrumental in saving their troubled marriage.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2007-02-28
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Par suite d'un arrêt de travail...
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2008-07-02
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Une époque formidable
Overview: Michel Berthier, cadre supérieur d'une entreprise de matelasserie, vient d'être licencié. Comme il n'ose pas avouer la vérité à Juliette, sa compagne, il s'endette pour maintenir le niveau de la famille qu'il couvre de cadeaux. Mais il ne peut bientôt plus mentir et il décide alors de quitter la maison. Après avoir perdu son argent, sa voiture et ses chaussures, il rencontre Toubib, Mimosa et Crayon, trois «Sans Domicile Fixe» qui font leur toilette dans les lavabos de la gare de l'Est. Ils le prennent sous leur aile et l'entraînent à aller cambrioler son ancienne entreprise afin de se munir de duvets et de lits
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1991-06-19
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The Thousand Wonders of the Universe
Overview: A science-fiction film centered around planet Earth receiving a coded message from outer space and the subsequent disappearance of 12,000 inhabitants of Sepuvedra, a free-trade port. The government and the army are convinced that they have been kidnapped by aliens and Professor Larsen, an eminent astrophysicist and UFO expert, is assigned to lead an urgent investigative mission into the deserted town.
Genres: Fantasy Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1997-07-14
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Justinien Trouve, or God's Bastard
Overview: Set in the French countryside in the 1600s, a lone rider deposits a newborn baby boy on the steps of a monastery, having bitten his nose off. The child is bought up by an ex-pirate and his wife and is taught to read, write, count, joust and fence, and is also given a wooden nose. However, he is ordered by a local baron to attend a tough seminary, but he soon rebels and makes an action-packed escape...
Genres: Comedy Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1993-09-15
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L'Ami du jardin
Overview: An ordinary night in the village of Beugneux. Mademoiselle Tronchet discovers her brother Léon - a notary and a great collector of garden gnomes - hanging from the beams of the attic. It could be the start of a police intrigue.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1999-10-06
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Penn sardines
Overview: In 1924, female workers in a sardine cannery in Brittany went on strike.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2004-03-09
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Le mangeur de lune
Overview: A man thinks he's a scarecrow. He meets a Russian clown on a train.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1994-10-12
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L'Enfant Et Les Loups
Overview: Othilie spends her vacations with her uncle Antoine, an old lonesome bear. In charge of a regional park, Antoine lives a long way from Paris, in company of the shepherd Tambourin, whose frightening face hides the innocence of a new-born child. Since the arrival of Othilie, odd things happen. A slaughtered sheep is found and weird howls are sounding through the night. The wolves are not far away.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1998-08-15
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Dobermann
Overview: The charismatic criminal Dobermann, who got his first gun when he was christened, leads a gang of brutal robbers. After a complex and brutal bank robbery, they are being hunted by the Paris police. The hunt is led by the sadistic cop Christini, who only has one goal: to catch Dobermann at any cost.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1997-06-18
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The Great Post Office Robbery
Overview: The heroes of this crime-comedy attempt to get hold of money by a funny trick. They start operating the new post-office of the housing estate a week before the official opening, pocketing the revenue themselves. The inhabitants of the estate do not understand the trick, and loads of money pour to the swindlers.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1992-12-11
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Reverse
Overview: With the help of her alters, an ex-spy with dissociative identity disorder hatches a plan to get revenge on the one-eyed, the man who tried to kill her. Morgane has many characters who live inside her, and with their help she develops a plan to track down her target: a one-eyed double agent. As each day their identity is alternated, the alters use a Dictaphone to record their days and share the information of their daily investigations. But along the way they are betrayed by one of their own, Louise, who joins forces with two thugs to be freed from this life under control, who agree to help her in exchange for a fortune. The two men manipulate the identities, pretending to be the man they are looking for -the one-eyed. But soon the trap closes on them, and they become the victims of the obsession of this woman with many faces.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2023-01-02
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Until the End of the World
Overview: In 1999, a woman's life is forever changed after she survives a car crash with two bank robbers, who enlist her help to take the money to a drop in Paris. On the way, she runs into another fugitive from the law — an American doctor on the run from the CIA. They want to confiscate his father's invention – a device which allows anyone to record their dreams and visions.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction Adventure
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1991-09-12
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2 Days in Paris
Overview: Marion and Jack try to rekindle their relationship with a visit to Paris, home of Marion's parents — and several of her ex-boyfriends.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-02-09
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Wings of Desire
Overview: Two angels, Damiel and Cassiel, glide through the streets of Berlin, observing the bustling population, providing invisible rays of hope to the distressed but never interacting with them. When Damiel falls in love with lonely trapeze artist Marion, the angel longs to experience life in the physical world, and finds -- with some words of wisdom from actor Peter Falk -- that it might be possible for him to take human form.
Genres: Drama Fantasy Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1987-09-23
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Copy Film
Overview: A "camera-less" stop motion film made entirely using a photo-copier.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1987-09-01
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À la rose des vents
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Genres: Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1990-01-01
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Little Indian, Big City
Overview: Stephen, an international trader, tracks down his ex-wife Patricia in some Amazonian backwater. He needs her consent to a divorce so that he can marry Charlotte. Unfortunately, he discovers a son he didn’t know he had – Mimi-Siku. The young jungle boy yearns to see Paris so Stephen reluctantly agrees to take him back home with him for a few days. How will Mimi-Siku react to life in the great metropolis?
Genres: Adventure Drama Family Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1994-12-14
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The Orphanage
Overview: France, 1911. Louise Perreau, struggling financially to raise her son Gaston, gets a new job in Paris that brings her hope for a better life.
Genres: Drama History TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2018-11-20
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Daddy Cool
Overview: The story about the age gap between a scientist father, Philipe Le Tallec, and his newly discovered teen aged daughter, Eglantine.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2008-04-30
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Comme s'il en pleuvait
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2014-04-26
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The Three Brothers
Overview: Three half-brothers are reunited at their mother's funeral. After being told of their inheritance they quickly spend the money, only to find out that they will not receive it after all. The men grow closer while deciding how to proceed.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1995-12-13
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L'Affaire Ben Barka
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Genres: History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2008-01-21
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Blanche
Overview: In 17th century France, cardinal Mazarin's death squad kills young Blanche's parents. She grows up to become a thief and steels a substance called Powder of the Devil and a coded letter that were sent to cardinal Mazarin. He is furious.
Genres: Adventure Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2002-09-18
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Recto/Verso
Overview: Riddled with debts after having been unfairly fired from his job, a star TV presenter—and inveterate womanizer—passes as a homosexual in order to get a job on a gay TV channel. While some people use the casting couch to succeed, he is determined to succeed without the couch. That's why he decides to present his cousin, a rather naive karaoke fan, as his boyfriend.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1999-06-16
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