Wolfgang Pissors
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Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Lindenberg im Allgäu, Germany
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Les Miserables
Overview: In France during World War II, a poor and illiterate man, Henri Fortin, is introduced to Victor Hugo's classic novel Les Misérables and begins to see parallels between the book and his own life.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1995-03-22
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Deux femmes à Paris
Overview: In Paris in 1935, a young Jewish woman married to an anti-fascist activist befriends her neighbor who is dating a far-right supporter.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2000-11-27
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The Three Kings
Overview: The Three Wise Men – Balthazar, Melchior and Gaspard – are on their way to Bethlehem to pay homage to the infant Jesus when they are suddenly, an inexplicably, transported two thousand years into the future. They find themselves walking the streets of Paris, where they encounter a young woman called Macha who, they are convinced, will lead them to the newborn Messiah.
Genres: Comedy Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2001-12-12
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Magic in the Moonlight
Overview: Set in the 1920s French Riviera, a master magician is commissioned to try and expose a psychic as a fraud.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-07-25
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Lucy
Overview: A woman, accidentally caught in a dark deal, turns the tables on her captors and transforms into a merciless warrior evolved beyond human logic.
Genres: Action Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-07-25
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Victor Young Perez
Overview: Victor Perez was a Jewish boxer who became world flyweight champion in 1931 and 1932, but was transported to Auschwitz concentration camp when Paris fell to the Nazi s in 1943. While there he was forced into slave labour and made to participate in violent boxing matches for the amusement of the Nazi guards. Surviving Auschwitz tells Victors astonishing, harrowing, brutal and incredibly moving true story.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2013-11-20
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Bon Voyage
Overview: On the eve of World War II four Parisians cope with the impending invasion of their city by German forces. While the French government braces for impact, the intersected lives of a young writer, a vain movie star, a French politician and a young scientist are examined as they attempt to deal with war and evade German spies.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2003-04-16
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The Queen
Overview: The Queen is an intimate behind the scenes glimpse at the interaction between HM Elizabeth II and Prime Minister Tony Blair during their struggle, following the death of Diana, to reach a compromise between what was a private tragedy for the Royal family and the public's demand for an overt display of mourning.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-09-15
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In Her Name
Overview: In 1982, André Bamberski learns about the death of his 14 year-old daughter, Kalinka, while she was on vacation with her mother and stepfather in Germany. Convinced that Kalinka’s death was not an accident, Bamberski begins to investigate. A botched autopsy report raises his suspicions and leads him to accuse Kalinka’s stepfather, Dr Dieter Krombach, as the murderer. Unable to indict Krombach in Germany, Bamberski attempts to take the trial to France, where he will dedicate his life to Kalinka’s justice and the imprisonment of Krombach.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2016-03-16
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Mystery at the Place Vendome
Overview: When Jeanne, the recognized sous chef of the Ritz Paris, discovers her son has been kidnapped, she must make some difficult decisions.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2017-12-29
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The Heir Apparent: Largo Winch
Overview: After a powerful billionaire is murdered, his secret adoptive son must race to prove his legitimacy, find his father's killers and stop them from taking over his financial empire.
Genres: Adventure Drama Action Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2008-12-17
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Largo Winch II
Overview: Propelled to the head of the W Group after the death of his adoptive father, Largo Winch decides, to everyone's surprise, to sell it, and use the proceeds to create an ambitious humanitarian foundation. But on the very same day, he finds himself accused of crimes against humanity by a mysterious witness. To prove his innocence, Largo will have to retrace the steps of his past life, in the heart of the Burmese jungle.
Genres: Action Adventure Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2011-02-16
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Casanova, Last Love
Overview: Year 1763. Forced into exile, the famous libertine Giacomo Casanova leaves Paris and travels to London, where he meets Marianne de Charpillon, a young prostitute to whom he is so attracted that he forgets about the other women.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2019-03-20
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Female Agents
Overview: May 1944, a group of French servicewomen and resistance fighters are enlisted into the British Special Operations Executive commando group under the command of Louise Desfontaines and her brother Pierre. Their mission, to rescue a British army geologist caught reconnoitering the beaches at Normandy.
Genres: War History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2008-02-08
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The Statement
Overview: The film is set in France in the 1990s, the French were defeated by the Germans early in World War II, an armistice was signed in 1940 which effectively split France into a German occupied part in the North and a semi-independent part in the south which became known as Vichy France. In reality the Vichy government was a puppet regime controlled by the Germans. Part of the agreement was that the Vichy Government would assist with the 'cleansing' of Jews from France. The Vichy government formed a police force called the Milice, who worked with the Germans...
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-12-12
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Stardom
Overview: A young girl is plucked from small-town obscurity and thrust into the spotlight of the glamorous world of super-models.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-10-13
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Safe Conduct
Overview: During the Nazi occupation of France as two filmmakers attempt to navigate their careers without compromising their ideals. Facing pressure from the Vichy government, assistant director Jean Devaivre uses his position at the German-controlled studio Continental Films as a cover for his resistance activities, while screenwriter Jean Aurenche uses his wits to keep from being involved in the creation of any collaborationist propaganda.
Genres: War Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2002-01-09
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