Niels Schneider
Also Known As: 니엘스 슈나이더
Biography: Niels Schneider (born 18 June 1987) is a Franco-Canadian actor. He gained early recognition for his roles in Xavier Dolan's acclaimed films I Killed My Mother (2009) and Heartbeats (2010), which earned him the Trophée Chopard for Male Revelation of the Year at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival. In 2013, he starred in Yann Gonzalez's provocative surreal film You and the Night. Schneider's performance in Dark Inclusion (2016) earned him the César Award for Most Promising Actor in 2017. He also starred in Of Money and Blood (2023) and appeared in Woody Allen's Coup de Chance (2023).
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Meudon, Hauts-de-Seine, France
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Birthday: June 18, 1987
Age: 37 years old
Gender: Male
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Collisions
Overview: After a violent car crash, alone and unable to move, Henri must face the ultimate fear.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2014-02-20
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I Killed My Mother
Overview: Hubert, a brash 17-year-old, is confused and torn by a love-hate relationship with his mother that consumes him more and more each day. After distressing ordeals and tragic episodes, Hubert will find his mother on the banks of Saint Lawrence river, where he grew up, and where a murder will be committed: the murder of childhood.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2009-06-05
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South Sentinel
Overview: The journey of Christian Lafayette, a French soldier who, in the aftermath of a murderous ambush in Afghanistan, has returned to France. Soon mixed up in trafficking opium with Mounir, his brother-in-arms who was wounded in the ambush, Lafayette, a foster child, and tormented war hero, chooses a new family and life – a criminal’s life. To escape this vicious circle of violence, Christian has to learn how to love.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2022-04-13
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Before We Collapse
Overview: In a dystopia Paris, this is about a campaign manager named Tristan who is knocked sideways when he receives an anonymous letter containing a positive pregnancy test. Potentially suffering from a fatal and incurable genetic illness, Tristan becomes obsessed with the idea of finding the woman who sent him this test. He decides to carry out an investigation, risking his love life and his career in the process.
Genres: Drama Comedy Family
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2023-04-19
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Everything Is Fine
Overview: Josh is an ordinary teen living in an ordinary suburb. One morning he finds his friend's dead body. Next, he discovers that three more friends also have killed themselves, leaving him out of their pact. As the sole survivor, Josh becomes more and more detached from the world around him. It is a modern portrait of today's teens: invincible yet fragile, clear-thinking yet confused...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2008-03-01
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Heartbeats
Overview: Francis is a young gay man, Marie is a young straight woman and the two of them are best friends -- until the day the gorgeous Nicolas walks into a Montreal coffee shop. The two friends, instantly and equally infatuated, compete for Nicolas' indeterminate affections, a conflict that climaxes when the trio visit the vacation home of Nicolas' mother. The frothy comedy unfolds through narrative, fantasy sequences and confessional monologues.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2010-09-29
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Icarus
Overview: On the island of Crete, a day-dreamy boy named Icarus befriends a mysterious creature with the body of a man and the head of a bull named Asterion (aka the Minotaur). When the King asks Icarus’ father, a famous inventor, to work on a secret project, Icarus realizes his new friend is in danger.
Genres: Animation Fantasy Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2022-03-30
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Apaches: Gang of Paris
Overview: Paris, 1884. The lives of three orphaned children wandering the streets dominated by ruthless criminals change tragically when they carry out a daring robbery.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2023-03-29
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Atomic Age
Overview: Two young boys, Victor and Rainer, take the commuter train to spend the evening in Paris. In a nightclub on the banks of the Seine they go from one disappointment to another, from failed chat ups to street brawls. But as they get carried away by the night, they leave the city for the forest. In the silence of the moonlight nature, the desire between the two friends becomes increasingly vibrant. A new day is born from their friendship.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2012-08-16
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Chaos
Overview: Vincent, Marie and their son have just moved from Paris into a farm near a small town in the south of France. He is a history and geography teacher, who looks forward to a quieter life, some kind of return to nature. His wife, a renowned international pianist, who retired in spite of her young age, has decided to follow him but almost unwillingly. From the very beginning, Thibault, one of Vincent's students, invades his family and slowly the couple, whose desires seem now so far away, falls apart. But Thibault's intentions are not at all motivated by love. And he will do anything to achieve his goal...
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2012-10-06
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You and the Night
Overview: Around midnight, a young couple and their transvestite maid prepare for an orgy. Their guests will be The Slut, The Star, The Stud and The Teen.
Genres: Romance Drama Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2013-09-08
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Opium
Overview: The frustrated loves of Jean Cocteau and Raymond Radiguet at the beginning of the 1920s. The death of Radiguet that sank Cocteau into opium. A story under the influence of drugs. A narrative in the spirit of Cocteau. And all this in a musical.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2013-10-02
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De Gaulle – Partie 1 : La France Libre
Overview: Part one of a two-part biopic following French army officer Charles De Gaulle's life and political commitment between 1940 and 1945, and trace his development towards a political career.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: fr
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De Gaulle – Partie 2
Overview: Part two of a two-part biopic following French army officer Charles De Gaulle's life and political commitment between 1940 and 1945, and trace his development towards a political career.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: fr
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Cœur de Pirate: Adieu
Overview: The music video for "Adieu" was directed by Jérémie Saindon. The video features Coeur de pirate taking revenge on a cheating lover played by actor Niels Schneider.
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Original Language: fr
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Cardiocleptomania
Overview: A music video that addresses homophobia in sports.
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Original Language: fr
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Snow Hides the Shade of Fig Trees
Overview: It is through the voice of Salim, newly arrived in Canada, that we follow the journey of six immigrants who, cramped in a van, earn their living by distributing advertising leaflets. Despite their diverse origins, they share the same nostalgia for their native land and the same daily worries, which they approach with scathing humor. Among them is a young boy of Russian origin, Sacha. The biting cold and the endless stairs will get the better of his tenacity. However, Sacha will come to surprisingly break the routine of Salim and his companions...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2009-12-27
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Le petit oiseau va sortir
Overview: Built around 3 portrait sessions where young people become photographers before giving their lives during various suicide operations, LE PETIT OISEAU VA SORTIR attempts to present the contrast between the banality of the photographic gesture and the seriousness of the gesture that the 3 main protagonists are preparing to perpetrate.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2006-12-27
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Spirit of Ecstasy
Overview: A gender-questioning stock market trader is determined to make it in the world of finance — not for the glory or wealth, but because it's leading them on the path to freedom.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2023-11-22
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The Perfect Boyfriend
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Genres: Science Fiction Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
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Another World
Overview: 1915. Louis, aged 17, arrives on Reunion Island to find his father, Count Kerdiguen. He has built himself a new family with Salima, his native partner, and their daughter Sita. Between the white and native communities, tensions are increasingly mounting...
Genres: History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2011-11-01
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Coup de Chance
Overview: Fanny and Jean have everything of an ideal couple: fulfilled in their professional life, they live in a magnificent apartment in the beautiful districts of Paris and seem to be in love as on the first day. But when Fanny crosses, by chance, Alain, a former high school friend, she is immediately capsized. They see each other again very quickly and get closer and closer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2023-09-15
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Xavier Dolan: Bound to Impossible
Overview: Actors Anne Dorval, Suzanne Clément, Monia Chokri, Gaspard Ulliel, Vincent Cassel, Niels Schneider and Melvil Poupaud discuss working with the young Canadian director Xavier Dolan, who has conquered the hearts of both cinema lovers and prestigious festival juries with his films. To French actress Nathalie Baye, he seems very experienced despite his young age, while Cannes Director Thierry Frémaux says he may be insolent, but everyone agrees he is passionate, creative, a perfectionist and... in a hurry.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2016-09-20
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Miao Shan and the Minotaur
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Genres: Drama Fantasy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-06-16
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Gemma Bovery
Overview: Martin, an ex-Parisian well-heeled hipster passionate about Gustave Flaubert who settled into a Norman village as a baker, sees an English couple moving into a small farm nearby. Not only are the names of the new arrivals Gemma and Charles Bovery, but their behavior also seems to be inspired by Flaubert's heroes.
Genres: Romance Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2014-09-10
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Dark Diamond
Overview: Pier Ulmann lives from hand-to-mouth in Paris, between construction work and petty theft that he commits on behalf of Rachid, his only “family”. But life catches up with him the day his father is found dead in the street after a long decline. The black sheep of a rich Antwerp family who deals in diamonds, he has left his son nothing, apart from the story of his banishment from the Ulmann family and a thirst for revenge.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2016-06-08
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Dalida
Overview: Based on the true story of acclaimed music icon "Dalida" born in Cairo, who gained celebrity in the 50s, singing in French, Spanish, Arabic, Hebrew, German, Italian, playing in awarded Youssef Chahine's picture "Le Sixième Jour", and who later committed suicide in 1987 in Paris, after selling more than 130 million records worldwide.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2017-01-11
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Kokoro
Overview: After her brother's death, Alice leave France for Japan and takes refuge in a small village just above the cliffs. Her brother Nathan said to her before he died that he finally founded peace there thanks to a certain Daïsuké. Following his footsteps, Alice will in fact find herself, in a strange and hostile but warm place.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2016-03-30
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Polina
Overview: Polina is a young dancer from a modest family. After years of ballet academy, she is accepted by the Bolshoi; still, she decides to try and audition of a modern dance company in France. She makes it, but her journey will not end there...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2016-11-16
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The Art Dealer
Overview: A young woman is searching, today, in Paris, the collection of paintings stolen from her Jewish family during WWII.
Genres: Thriller Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2015-03-18
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Taking the Plunge 2
Overview: Gaby and Fred are preparing for the world swimming championships which will be held in Quebec City this year. Their love will be put to the test when a former love of Gaby's turns up at the championships. Gaby finds herself at a crucial point of her life where she has to choose whether to continue competing or follow another dream that she's cherished forever, but which seems impossible to everyone else—her dream to become an astronaut.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2009-06-17
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Quantum Love
Overview: Pierre has been happily married for fifteen years and a good father. Still in love with his wife, he enjoys his wife and family and is content. One evening, he meets Elsa at a party and are immediately attracted to each other. Fifteen days later, they happen to meet again and the mutual attraction turns into infatuation. But his love for his wife and Elsa's rule about not dating married men prevents them from taking the next step. Instead, they fantasize about each other, and soon the fantasies mingle with the reality.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2014-04-23
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Fatal
Overview: Fatal... a diminutive for Fatal Bazooka, a bling-bling and hardcore rapper. A huge music star. Millions of fans, tens of hits, 4 « Artist of the year » Music Awards of Music, a range of fashion, a magazine, and soon his own amusement park : Fataland. He is the undisputed number one, until...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2010-06-16
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Voice Over
Overview: A married woman — seeking to purify herself through a "disconnection vow" — leaves her husband and returns to her parents’ home, but finds a situation far from the peace and quiet she had imagined.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2014-09-06
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Métamorphoses
Overview: Intimacy and entertainment, melancholy and fury, modesty and drive, birth and disappearance. Four girls, four boys. Eight solitudes told with lyric and passion, between Earth and Cosmos, along the way towards their Metamorphoses.
Genres: Fantasy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2014-01-20
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2 Frogs in the West
Overview: Marie Deschamps has her whole life ahead of her but isn't sure what to do with it. To the disappointment of her parents, she drops out of college and decides to go work in Whistler in order to perfect her English. After a journey across Canada, her arrival in British-Columbia is less glorious than she dreamt. Fortunately, she meets Jean-Francois Laforest, a Quebecois skier who has been living on the West Coast for 10 years. J-F will introduce her to his Anglo friends and to the lifestyle of the mountains. Somewhere out West, this adventure will change her life forever.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2010-10-28
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The Howling: Reborn
Overview: On the eve of his high school graduation, unremarkable Will Kidman finally bonds with the girl he has long yearned for, reclusive Eliana Wynter. But he also discovers a dark secret from his past... that he is about to become a werewolf. Now, in an effort to fight destiny and save their love as well as their lives, they must battle not only Will's growing blood lust but an army of fearsome beasts bent on killing them... and then, us all.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-10-18
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Sleeping Beauty
Overview: In the kingdom of Letonia, the young prince Égon spends his nights playing the drums. During the day, he only has one thing on his mind: finding Sleeping Beauty in the kingdom of Kentz and breaking the spell over her. But his father, the king, doesn’t believe in fairy tales, and is completely opposed to Égon’s dream. It’s Maggie Jerkins, an archeologist from Unesco, who will provide Egon with the opportunity to follow his heart.
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2017-01-18
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An Impossible Love
Overview: A chronicle of the unconditional love between a mother and her daughter, from 1958 to the present day, which is endangered by an unsteady and manipulative father.
Genres: Drama Romance History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2018-11-07
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The Most Assassinated Woman in the World
Overview: Set against the backdrop of the infamous Theatre Grand Guignol the story revolves around iconic actress Paula Maxa - the most famous of the Grand Guignol's leading ladies and the titular Most Assassinated Woman, who was graphically slain on stage multiple times a day.
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2018-07-09
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One Nation, One King
Overview: „Un peuple et son roi" crosses the destinies of the men and women of the population, and those of historical figures. Their meeting place is the newly founded National Assembly. At the heart of the story lie the fate of the king and the birth of the French Republic.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2018-09-26
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Curiosa
Overview: A passionate love story set against a backdrop of sexual freedom, loosely based on the relationship between 19th century authors Pierre Louÿs and Marie de Régnier.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2019-04-03
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The Black Book
Overview: The story of the adventures, in the twilight of the eighteenth century, of a singular couple formed by a little orphan with mysterious origins and his young Italian nurse of a similarly uncertain birth. They lead us in their wake, from Rome to Paris, from Lisbon to London, from Parma to Venice. Always followed in the shadows, for obscure reasons, by a suspicious-looking Calabrian and a troubling cardinal, they make us explore the dark intrigues of the Vatican, the pangs of a fatal passion, a gruesome duel, banter at the court of Versailles and the convulsions of the French Revolution.
Genres: Romance Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2018-10-03
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Bad Poems
Overview: 33-years old Tamás Merthner is heartbroken, after his girlfriend Anna, who is on a scholarship in Paris, breaks up with him. While wallowing in self-pity, Tamás takes a trip down memory lane to figure out if love only exists when it's practically gone. As he's trying to pick up the pieces, he begins to realize what makes this current society so confused, which gives us a highly subjective view of Hungary's present.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 2018-12-27
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Phratry
Overview: Four brothers live in the shadow of their repressive father who claims to be the leader of a sect, thanks to his rumored healing powers. They come to discover it might all be a sham when faced with their mother's peril.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2018-08-16
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Sibyl
Overview: Sibyl, a jaded psychotherapist, returns to her first passion: writing. But her newest patient Margot, a troubled up-and-coming actress, proves to be a source of inspiration that is far too tempting. Fascinated almost to the point of obsession, Sibyl becomes more and more involved in Margot’s tumultuous life, reviving volatile memories that bring her face to face with her past.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2019-05-24
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Futura
Overview: Louis is a talented jazz musician who, after giving up music, now makes ends meet by working as a taxi driver and dealing cocaine, but ruining his relationship with his wife and daughter. But when an old friend of his father offers him to join his band for an important concert, the protagonist is presented with an opportunity for redemption.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2021-06-17
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Val d'or
Overview: Two teenagers meet one Saturday evening to hang out together. While they cross Paris, meetings and disappointments are linked and push them to ask themselves about the feelings they have.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2011-11-14
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Back Home
Overview: The prodigal son of a family in turmoil returns home to his French rural home to reconnect with his family and make sense of their dysfunctions.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2020-01-29
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Les vacances continuent
Overview: Rose (Kate Moran) performs a series of gruesome acts on sleazy men.
Genres: Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2015-01-26
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A Brother’s Love
Overview: Sophia, a brilliant doctoral student, has always maintained a symbiotic relationship with her brother Karim. The arrival of a new lover in Karim’s life significantly alters their dynamic.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2019-06-07
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Sympathy for the Devil
Overview: In an urban war zone where everything that moves is a target, Paul tries to live, love and inform.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2019-11-27
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Suzanna Andler
Overview: Accompanied by her lover, Suzanna, 40, views a Riviera beach house for her family's summer vacation. This day, this break in her routine, in this new house, will mark a turning point in her life. Based on the Marguerite Duras play of the same name, Suzanna Andler is the portrait of a woman trapped in her marriage to a wealthy, unfaithful businessman in the 1960s. She must choose between her conventional destiny as a wife and mother, and her freedom, embodied by her young lover.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2021-06-02
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Love Affair(s)
Overview: Vacations in the French countryside. Daphne, three months pregnant, finds herself alone to welcome Maxime, her boyfriend François’ cousin. François had to leave in a hurry for Paris to cover for a sick colleague. For four days, while waiting for his return, Daphne and Maxime get to know each other and share very intimate stories that bring them closer...
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2020-09-16
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The Taste of Nothingness
Overview: The Taste of Nothingness is a meditative exploration of the deliberate self-destruction of a seemingly normal teenager and his intimate friend. With his parents away, Julien has decided to commit suicide, with his friend Niels filming him. First seen naked in bed together, the handsome youths awaken, dress, and begin to methodically discard all of Julien's possessions and attachments. Demonstrating a casual ease with one another and their bodies, they wordlessly record both the mundane and unusual aspects of these last two days of life. The Taste of Nothingness is a challenging but rewarding experimental film that haunts the viewer long after it ends.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2007-05-18
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Altered Innocence Vol. 1
Overview: Nearly 3 hours of LGBTQ and Coming-of-Age short films and music videos await you in the debut of Altered Innocence’s cinematic mixtape supreme! Films from established auteurs like Peter Strickland, Cam Archer, João Nicolau, and Yann Gonzalez join fresh new voices such as Alexis Langlois, Shaun Hughes, Caroline Poggi, and Jonathan Vinel. Cruising, dancing, naked wrestling, trans terrorism, first love, bullies, femme fatales, band practice, and more is in store! The short films are: After School Knife Fight (2017); Bunny (2018); Doors Cut Down [En malas compañías] (2000); Gabber Lover (2016); Wild Haggis [Gambozinos] (2013); GUO4 (2019); Hunt [Jakt] (2018); Terror, Sisters! [De la terreur, mes sœurs!] (2019). The music videos are: 'Les vacances continuent' by Perez (2015); 'Niemand' by Kompromat (2019); 'Our Time' by Imperial Teen (2002).
Genres: Drama Romance Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-05-25
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The Raptures
Overview: At the beginning of the main holidays. Étienne dies, leaving his father, Patrick, and his young girlfriend with the pain and loneliness.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2012-05-24
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Haunted Minds
Overview: A homeless veteran with PTSD gets offered money by his ex-sergeant to be hunted for sport. If he survives a month, he keeps the cash; if he dies, it goes to his estranged family. The hunt starts in six months abroad.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2025-09-10
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Badh
Overview: When police officer Ilias is shot and left in a coma, Alma must reconnect with her former identity as Badh, a ruthless intelligence operative and skilled assassin. She brutally eliminates members of the Khoury family one by one, unleashing the fury of their leader Mansour, only to discover that Mansour is working with Joana, her former secret service unit officer.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2025-08-06
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The Unknown
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Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: fr
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Si tu penses bien
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Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
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