Nicolas Giraud
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Biography: Nicolas Giraud (born 12 November 1978) is a French actor and filmmaker. Giraud is known for playing the role of Peter in the 2008 action film Taken. He is the writer, director and lead actor of the short film Faiblesses (2009). Giraud played the lead role in L'Astronaute (2022), a French film that he wrote and directed. Description above from the Wikipedia article Nicolas Giraud, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Saintes, Charente-Maritime, France
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Birthday: November 12, 1978
Age: 46 years old
Gender: Male
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The First Man
Overview: Based on a novel that Albert Camus was working on when he died, we follow Jacques Comery as he travels back to Algeria in 1957, a place full of childhood memories. The country is split between those wanting to remain a part of France, and those demanding independence. Reminiscences of his mother, his stern grandmother and a young Arab boy come flooding back.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2011-09-09
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The Astronaut
Overview: An aeronautical engineer at Ariane Espace, Jim has devoted himself for years to a secret project: building his own rocket and accomplishing the first manned space flight as an amateur. But to realize his dream, he must learn to share it.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2023-02-15
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High Lane
Overview: A group of friends on a climbing vacation ignore warnings that the mountains are closed and start their ascent anyway. Collapsing bridges, bear traps and other dangers threaten to splinter the group… when the real hell begins and an unseen villain begins picking them off one by one.
Genres: Action Thriller Horror
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2009-06-24
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Taken
Overview: Bryan Mills, a former government operative, is trying to reconnect with his teenage daughter Kim. After reluctantly agreeing with his ex-wife to let Kim go to Paris on vacation with a friend, his worst nightmare comes true. While on the phone with his daughter shortly after she arrives in Paris, she and her friend are abducted by a gang of human traffickers. Working against the clock, Bryan relies on his extensive training and skills to track down the ruthless gang that abducted her and launch a one-man war to rescue his daughter.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-02-18
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Bruc: The Manhunt
Overview: Spain, 1808. The Napoleonic Army suffers its first defeat at the hands of a single man: a drummer boy who used the Montserrat mountains to echo his drums and send the enemy troops into a panicked retreat. When the news reaches Napoleon, he furiously orders the captain of the Imperial Guard to bring back the head of the young hero responsible for his army's defeat…
Genres: Adventure History Drama
Original Language: ca
Release Date: 2010-12-22
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Coup d'éclat
Overview: Fabienne is a police officer. She does her job well but is gradually growing tired of the dehumanized nature of her work : arresting undocumented aliens day after day does not fit in with her ideals. That's why when, one night, Olga, the Kazakh prostitute she apprehends, begs her to free her not to leave her four-year-old son alone, she hesitates... And why, after Olga has run away and is found dead, Fabienne decides to deal with this matter personally...
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2011-04-27
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Voir la Mer
Overview: Two brothers live in Montbard, Burgundy. For their summer vacation, they decide to visit their mother in Saint-Jean-de-Luz, because it’s been a long time, because it would make her happy… There’s no shortage of reasons. They buy a second-hand motor home and plan to stay open to whatever the road brings them, embarking on a brothers’ journey across France. Just the two of them. But then an endearing young woman crosses their path...
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2011-05-03
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A Butterfly Kiss
Overview: Billie and Louis have the good fortune of loving each other passionately and of having a family. But then one day terrible news turns their existence and that of their friends' upside down. Marie, a famous actress who is Billie's friend and confidant, redoubles her determination to give life, while Alice, her nurse, fighting for freedom, maintains that life 'is here and now and in the moment.' A film about love, hope, and the conviction that the force of life, despite the toughest tests, will always gain the upper hand.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2011-06-01
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In Your Wake
Overview: An estranged father returns with plans to open a bar with the son who still harbors resentment towards him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2007-09-17
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Les Tribulations d'une caissière
Overview: La vie n’est pas rose tous les jours pour Solweig, caissière dans un supermarché. Mais elle garde le sourire, malgré les remarques souvent déplaisantes des clients et un chef teigneux. Peut-être grâce au blog qu’elle tient en secret, où elle s’épanche avec humour sur son quotidien difficile… Un soir, sous la neige, son destin croise celui de Charles. Le jeune homme tombe aussitôt amoureux d’elle, sans se douter qu’ils ne sont pas du même monde. Mais si un simple blog peut changer le sort de milliers de caissières, n’est-il pas permis de croire aux contes de fées ?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-12-14
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Like a Star Shining in the Night
Overview: A young couple finds out what love truly means when one of them has a brush with death. When Anne and Marc met, it was love at first sight, and the longer they were together, the more they realized they never wanted to be apart. But not long after they married, Marc's doctor discoveres some unexpected symptoms...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2008-12-03
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Weaknesses
Overview: A young woman decides to go after a man she’s in love with… – Semaine de la critique
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2009-05-20
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Among the Living
Overview: Three teenagers skip school in order to explore an abandoned film studio lot where they catch sight of a woman being dragged by a masked man.
Genres: Horror Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2014-03-10
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Welcome Home
Overview: Julien, 28, returns to his home town after spending the past 13 years in prison. Out on probation, he's obsessed with a girl... Emilie. And one day, he reaches for her: "it's me". She turns around, looks at him and starts to scream.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2008-12-03
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Anton Tchekhov 1890
Overview: Summer 1890. In order to make some money to feed his family, Anton Chekhov, modest physician, wrote short stories for newspapers to sign Antosha Tchékhonté. Important characters, writer and editor, just make him aware of his talent. His situation is improving and Anton Chekhov gets the Pushkin prices and admiration of Tolstoy. But when one of his brothers died of tuberculosis, Anton saw it as a personal failure and wants to escape his fame and his love.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2015-03-18
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Sous le bleu
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2004-08-17
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Dust
Overview: For some time the village was just sentenced to silence and dust. Not a soul out there, not even a noise. However this evening, something is moving again.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-11-16
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Far from Men
Overview: A French teacher in a small Algerian village during the Algerian War forms an unexpected bond with a dissident who is ordered to be turned in to the authorities.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2015-01-14
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Elsewhere
Overview: Patrick Perrin is a dealer in a small seaside casino. His dream? To leave. To leave everything for an unknown destination. But a trip such as this doesn't happen overnight. To start with, Patrick decides to buy a suitcase. A nice red one with wheels that he immediately puts at the foot of his bed. All that's left to do is to fill it up and choose a destination.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2010-12-08
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The Last Journey of the Enigmatic Paul W.R
Overview: The red moon threatens our existence on earth. Our only hope is the the most talented astronaut of his generation, the enigmatic Paul W.R. But a few hours before the start of the Great Mission, Paul disappears.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2015-12-07
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The Robin Hoods of the Poor
Overview: Two brothers in impoverished Cantal steal money from the banks with the assistance of the locals to distribute it amongst the poor. The police are befuddled until Commissaire Viennot takes over.
Genres: Crime TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2011-10-25
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The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec
Overview: An adventure set in the early part of the 20th century, focused on a popular novelist and her dealings with would-be suitors, the cops, monsters, and other distractions.
Genres: Fantasy Adventure Action Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2010-04-09
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What the Day Owes the Night
Overview: Algeria, the 1930s. Younes is nine years old when he is put in his uncle's care in Oran. Rebaptized Jonas, he grows up among the Rio Salado youths, with whom he becomes friends. Emilie is one of the gang; everyone is in love with her. A great love story develops between Jonas and Emilie, which is soon unsettled by the conflicts troubling the country.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2012-09-12
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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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The Guardians
Overview: In this ensemble drama set in rural France, the women of the Paridier farm are left to run it by themselves while their men are off fighting in World War I. But things become complicated with the arrival of American troops.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2017-12-06
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The Speed of the Past
Overview: Margot and Joseph leave move awy from the city, far from everything, and renovate an old house in which they hardly settle down. One day, the earth begins trembling and time stops, congealing Joseph in his fall from the roof of the house. He remains congealed in space and time, but continues nevertheless to fall slowly towards the ground. Margot,she, does not seem to undergo this experience and continues to live, hoping that Joseph starts moving again at a normal speed.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2011-12-15
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Du soleil dans mes yeux
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2018-04-11
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Pas si simple
Overview: Nadia, an 18-year-old French girl from Moroccan origin, is now of age to get married. Despite her reluctance to marriage during the family summer vacation in Morocco, she finally chooses Samir.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2010-04-21
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