Françoise Michaud
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Dijon, Côte-d'Or, France
Adult: No
Birthday: January 01, 1963
Age: 62 years old
Gender: Female
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Mon fils d'ailleurs
Overview: A schoolteacher takes in a 16-year-old immigrant boy who has found himself without a foster family.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2004-11-17
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The Unsewing Machine
Overview: The insane Doctor Enger is obsessed with his plan to build a hospital to cure blind children, and goes on a killing and kidnapping spree with the police in pursuit.
Genres: Comedy Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1986-05-07
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The Butterfly
Overview: An old man who has one interest in life, collecting butterflies, has his life changed by an eight year old girl.
Genres: Family Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2002-12-18
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Mon pote
Overview: The story of a friendship between Victor, owner of a magazine, and Bruno, a car thief.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2010-12-01
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Flowers of Blood
Overview: In custody after she murders her middle aged photographer lover, a fourteen year old Pam reflects back on the bohemian life she spent with her mother Lily, a free spirited cabaret performer. Lily tried to elevate her stripper performances from the level of erotic spectacle to artistic expression as she dragged her young daughter from nightclub to nightclub and hotel to hotel, but ultimately lost her at nine to the Paris child authorities.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2002-05-01
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Rust and Bone
Overview: Put in charge of his young son, Ali leaves Belgium for Antibes to live with his sister and her husband as a family. Ali's bond with Stephanie, a killer whale trainer, grows deeper after Stephanie suffers a horrible accident.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2012-05-17
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Les Jours et les Nuits
Overview: I give a methodical account of my film work: the creation of new series (Lire, Trio, Avec Mariola), the shooting of a new feature film (Amours décolorées which will take ten years to edit) with Mariola San Martin.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2021-11-19
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The Adventures of Eddie Turley
Overview: Poetic sci-fi film as an homage to Cinema, Cocteau, Goodis and to American B-series of the 1940s. Constructed exclusively on photograms in black and white and freely inspired on Jean-Luc Godard's Alphaville.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1987-05-13
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The Rebel
Overview: After the death of his parents, Pierre is forced to care for his younger sister Nathalie by committing petty crimes. In a recurring motif of Gérard Blain’s cinema, Pierre is taken under the wing of an older gay man, Hubert , who offers him work and financial security; but when Hubert makes advances to him, Pierre robs him and takes up with a group of radical leftists who are planning terrorist attacks. Without employment, Pierre loses Nathalie to child services and spirals into desperation, finally erupting in an act of horrific violence. An x-ray showing the largely undiagnosed sickness of its time, and a stern warning to ours.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1980-11-12
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Love, Math and Sex
Overview: A highly intelligent teenage girl has an affair with a 40-year-old man.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1997-08-05
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A Saturday on Earth
Overview: A series of seemingly unconnected events and 50 important speaking parts make this film a jigsaw puzzle to be solved by the viewer. Martin and Claire were separated in childhood, and are brought together by a series of coincidences. A tragic car crash is central to the story, but seemingly unimportant events can hold great significance. Through a montage of different film stock and techniques director Diane Bertrand creates pieces of a puzzle, from which the viewer has to piece together a story. That's the premise of the film, and it is solvable. You just have to work a bit...
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1996-08-28
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Romamor
Overview: A French director in Berlin creates a film letter to his lover, while reminiscing over their relationship.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1992-01-01
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Duchess of Warsaw
Overview: Valentin is a young gay painter who lives in the imaginary world of his paintings. When he finds his grandmother Nina, a Polish Jewish émigré whith whom he feels very close, he confesses his lack of inspiration and loneliness. During these few days together in a psychedelic Paris, Valentin expresses more and more the need to know the past Nina always tried to hide …
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2015-02-25
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Eminent Domain
Overview: A high-ranking Polish politburo member is banished from the party, and must find out why. Set in 1979 Poland before the Solidarity events.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-04-12
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The Under-Gifted
Overview: The story centers around a graduating class of "less-gifted" students in a private Versailles high school. Only a miracle has brought the students this far along, and after a practical joke misfires and the whole school is dynamited, the students are in deep trouble. They have to present themselves in court for their punishment and it could not be worse: If they don't pass their high-school graduation exams, they go to prison!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1980-04-30
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Switch
Overview: In Montreal, the unemployed fashion designer Sophie Malaterre is shown a website, switch.com, where it is possible to switch houses with a stranger for vacation. Sophie seeks an apartment in Paris nearby the Eiffel Tower that belongs to Bénédicte Serteaux and they change apartments. Sophie arrives in Paris on Saturday morning. The next morning, policemen break in the apartment and arrest Sophie while she is having a bath. Detective Damien Forgeat interrogates Sophie believing that she is Bénédicte and she learns that a beheaded body was found in her room and all evidence of her life has been deleted.
Genres: Crime Action Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2011-06-06
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The Lion Sleeps Tonight
Overview: An aging movie actor who is preparing to shoot a death scene finds himself visited by the spirit of a dead, long-ago lover.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2018-01-03
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El Cantor
Overview: William’s great surprise, his cousin Clovis, whom he did not see again since around thirty years, arrives from New York to visit him. Reunion between both men creates one thousand memories: always so collusive, they become fast inseparable, living again, the space of moment, their young years… Only Elizabeth, wife of William, who has just lost her father, does not share their cheerfulness.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2006-03-15
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Voyage à Rouen
Overview: Guillaume, thirty years old, a man of images who never goes out without a filming device, decides one morning to take a voyage to Rouen empty-handed.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1995-01-01
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Mémoires d'un juif tropical
Overview: In this avant-garde exercise in self-reflection, director Joseph Morder reminisces about his youth in Guayaquil, Ecuador, where his Jewish parents settled after they left Poland. The heat of August in Paris brings forth memories and at the same time the adult Morder is involved in a love affair. There are no scenes from Ecuador here, and none of the images in the film are used to carry the narration; instead they vaguely illustrate what Morder happens to be saying at the moment.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1986-02-18
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The Dead Tree
Overview: The veneer of the story is a tale of chance love: two French expatriates strike up a chance romance when they meet on a ship headed back to South America.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1987-01-01
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Mesures de miel et de lait sauvage
Overview: Teo Hernandez films waste and scrap found on the pavements of the streets of Paris. “Sidewalks are great subjects: garbage, objects and materials, stains, signs, are a movie subject.”
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1984-01-01
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Le journal de Joseph M.
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2000-02-15
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Portrait de groupe
Overview: Portrait de groupe is a film series of filmed portraits that shows all kinds of groups gathered under family pretexts, friendly or professional, in a single fixed, wide shot (style: family photo) and silent of 3 minutes and 20 seconds.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1986-02-05
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Trio
Overview: Trio is a cinematic series of filmed portraits that shows, in a single large, fixed and silent shot of 3 minutes and 20 seconds, three people free to do what they want.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1987-04-02
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Feuilles d'été
Overview: Teo Hernández films some friends in a park under the Parisian summer heat.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1983-06-20
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2 ou 3 choses que je sais de Joseph Morder
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2007-11-01
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Cocktail Molotov
Overview: "Cocktail Molotov" is the story of the adventures of this threesome, who reach Venice only to learn of the outbreak of the May 1968 disturbances at home. Once again, Anne, Frederic and Bruno realize that the important things of their time are happening somewhere where they are not. Swindled out of their car and virtually broke, they hitchhike back to Paris, hoping to arrive in time for some of the excitement.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1980-02-06
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À votre bon cœur, mesdames
Overview: The story of a septuagenarian, recently divorced, which in its reconstruction desire and quest for a new companion will rediscover the small pleasures of life and the art of seduction.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2013-12-04
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Tu es si jolie ce soir
Overview: Prosecutor Vadim, who has an uneasy relationship with his glamorous wife Chanéac, vanishes at the time a psycho is offing club girls to the strains of the "Tu es si jolie ce soir" song.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2015-06-17
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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 Ghost Valley
Overview: The efforts of an aspiring filmmaker to include an unwilling female in his production.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1987-09-16
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J'adore ma vie !
Overview: Angélique is a nursery school teacher. She loves the children: other people's, of course, and those of her partner Damien, who is going through a divorce. It is then that she realizes that she has contracted a very rare allergy... to children!
Genres: TV Movie Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2013-05-01
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Cocktail Morlock
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1981-01-31
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Dors mon lapin
Overview: It's the story of a young married man name Lionel who is swamped by colossal debts and whose wife is soon to give birth. At his wits' end, he decides one day to commit an irreparable act and kidnaps his millionnaire neighbors' 1-year-old baby. He demands a small ransom of €60,000. But Lionel is no criminal and all his attempts at exchanging his hostage for money fail. Meanwhile, he becomes increasingly attached to the baby. When he at last manages to get the money, he must come to terms with releasing his hostage.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2014-03-19
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Family Business
Overview: French rocker Johnny Halliday stars as a professional thief just released from jail. He returns to stealing to support his family. After several successful thefts, he decides to include his under-aged kid into the "family business".
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1986-03-19
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Cinématon XX
Overview: Reel 20 of Gérard Courant's on-going Cinematon series.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1982-05-03
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Chutes de Feuilles d’été
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1983-07-01
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Femme Fatale
Overview: A $10-million diamond rip-off, a stolen identity, a new life married to a diplomat. Laure Ash has risked big, won big. But then a tabloid shutterbug snaps her picture in Paris, and suddenly, enemies from Laure's secret past know who and where she is. And they all want their share of the diamond heist. Or her life. Or both.
Genres: Mystery Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-04-30
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I'd Like to Share Spring with Someone
Overview: Joseph Morder begins to film his life with a cell phone and thus begins to realize some life-changing experiences in attempts to discover a new film language
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2008-05-07
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L'amour trop fort
Overview: Max is an old and unsuccessful actor while Charlie is an ambitious young director, yet they are bound together by close friendship. Until the day Rose-Marie, a rather conservative young antique dealer, walks into Charlie's life. When Max's wife walks out on him, he clings to the young couple like ivy. However he soons becomes a dead weight and Rose-Marie threatens to leave if Charlie doesn't choose between her and Max.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1981-04-15
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Les nuages américains
Overview: On 30 October 1967, Joseph Morder began a unique experiment in France: a diary filmed on Super 8. Les Nuages américains (journal filmé neuf) is one of the episodes of the filmed diary that Joseph allowed himself to show to the public. The story of this film is that of a trip the filmmaker made to the United States in 1982. But like all of Joseph Morder's diaries, it is first and foremost a poetic interior journey, a journey into the author's stream of consciousness...
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1984-10-17
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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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A Fine Romance
Overview: An Italian gentleman and a doctor's wife plot to break up their spouses' tryst in Paris.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-06-07
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Clara ou les lumières du Havre
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2025-04-07
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