François Toumarkine
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Department: Acting
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Gender: Male
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Kings and Queen
Overview: Shortly before her wedding, art gallery director Nora travels from Paris to Grenoble to visit her preteen son, Elias, who is spending time with her aging professor father, Louis, recently diagnosed with terminal cancer. During her stay, she reaches out to her former lover, Ismaël, a viola player and father figure to Elias who has been committed against his will to a mental hospital. Ismaël, however, has his own problems to sort out.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2004-12-22
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Bas-fonds
Overview: On the outskirts of civilisation, three young women, Magalie, Marie-Steph and Barbara live a desperate life together. Drowning in alcohol, they both lust for and hate one another, coupling like animals. Yet gradually they become enmeshed in a complex game of love and domination. Magalie, the ringleader, subjugates through her male power, and bestial charisma. Simple Marie-Steph, her younger sister, remains in the background, and Barbara, unaware of her own prettiness, has joined the pack because she loves Magalie. One day, at Magalie’s instigation, and almost out of boredom, they hold up a bakery and kill the baker with a buckshot gun. Life gradually resumes, but nothing is the same.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2010-09-17
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White Nightmare
Overview: Four racists plan to assault a local Arab man, but soon things get out of control.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1992-01-08
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Grabuge!
Overview: Maurice works at the police service for foreigners. He is single, loves Spanish music and spends all his free time in a Hispanic cabaret.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2005-09-14
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Ambitious
Overview: On the one hand you have Judith Zahn, an arrogant, snobbish, Parisian editor. On the other hand meet Julien Demarsay: an insecure, timid, young bookseller from the East of France who has just written his first autobiographic novel, with what it takes of navel-contemplating and soul-searching. What do they have in common? Nothing much, except that sex will unite them, ambition part them before true love is born between them at last.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2007-01-24
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Colère
Overview: The town of Carzac Shakespeare suffered a violent attack that caused a fire in the local factory. Many dead and wounded. Two citizens investigate the drama and discover that its origin could be criminal.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2010-07-16
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Jean-Philippe
Overview: A bourgeois office drone whose raison d'être is the music of French rocker Johnny Hallyday awakens one day in an alternate universe where the famed musician never recorded a single song. When he’s not at the office dutifully plugging-away, Fabrice lives a deadly dull life.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2006-04-05
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Alternate Weeks (and Half the Vacation)
Overview: A 12 year old girl and her 8 year old brother live one week with their mother and the next week with their father. The girl blamers her mother, a super businesswoman for the divorce and turns all her anger on her. She prefers the weeks with her father who is flat broke after leaving his bank job to give people free hugs on street corners. Her brother channels his sense of injustice into the battle to save the planet. As the school year progresses and her parents struggle to mend their lives and as the girl approaches her 13th birthday, she learns to see the world in a new way.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2009-07-22
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Litan
Overview: Married couple Jock & Nora are visiting the town of Litan during Litan's Day, with its carnivalesque atmosphere. When Nora wakes that morning from dreaming the bizarre death of her husband, she sets out across town to find him and warn him. But as she does, she encounters stranger and stranger people and events erupting into a frenzy in front of her. Now, she and Jock must elude all of the impediments in their way of reaching safety on the outskirts of town.
Genres: Horror Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1982-02-24
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Conflit de canards
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2004-01-01
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Revenge of a Blonde
Overview: An upstanding provincial reporter becomes presenter of the TV news on a commercial network owned by an influential Italian businessman. He soon outgrows his family and neglects them terribly. Investigating a fascist terrorist cell, the reporter's integrity is called into doubt by the police. Soon after, his jealous wife unleashes her wrath live in TV. It goes from bad to worse until his wife's anger brings him back to his senses and back home.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1994-01-26
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Les Précieuses ridicules
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1997-05-03
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Les araignées de la nuit
Overview: In the lead up to the presidential elections five candidates turn up from out of nowhere. Then, as the days go by, they are eliminated one by one, each meeting with a violent death, until one is left to become president.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2002-04-17
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Les Ballets écarlates
Overview: A pedophile network, to which belong notables of a French provincial town is about to be discovered by a young woman who herself lost her son, a child survivor of one of these horror festivals, and an anarchist gunsmith.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2007-04-25
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Kill the Referee
Overview: Michel, a referee has to suffer the consequences of having whistled a penalty against a team which is supported by football hooligans.
Genres: Thriller Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1984-02-22
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La Haine
Overview: After a chaotic night of rioting in a marginal suburb of Paris, three young friends, Vinz, Hubert and Saïd, wander around unoccupied waiting for news about the state of health of a mutual friend who has been seriously injured when confronting the police.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1995-05-31
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Wild Target
Overview: Victor Meynard, a hit man who still lives with his mother, is becoming more reluctant to pull the trigger during assignments. He meets a young man, Antoine, whom he takes under his wing after being unable to kill him. Their lives change when he meets Renée, an art forger who has earned the wrath of powerful mob leaders. Unwilling to assassinate the new object of his affections, Victor must run and hide with two new friends in tow.
Genres: Drama Comedy Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1993-08-18
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Elle voit des nains partout !
Overview: La reine de France meurt en couche. Elle met au monde un petite fille prénommée Blanche-neige. Le roi deçu de n'avoir pas un fils est résolu à faire disparaître sa progéniture mais c'est sans compter sur la protection de nombreux personnages de la littérature enfantine : les fées, Tarzan, Robin des Bois ou d'autres encore...
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1982-04-07
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Regular Lovers
Overview: 1968 and 1969 in Paris: during and after the student and trade union revolt. François is 20, a poet, dodging military service. He takes to the barricades, but won't throw a Molotov cocktail at the police. He smokes opium and talks about revolution with his friend, Antoine, who has an inheritance and a flat where François can stay. François meets Lilie, a sculptor who works at a foundry to support herself. They fall in love. A year passes; François continues to write, talk, smoke, and be with Lilie. Opportunities come to Lilie: what will she and François do?
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2005-09-30
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Monsieur Ibrahim
Overview: Paris, 1960s. Momo, a resolute and independent Jewish teenager who lives with his father, a sullen and depressed man, in a working-class neighborhood, develops a close friendship with Monsieur Ibrahim, an elderly Muslim who owns a small grocery store.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2003-09-17
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Suzie Berton
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Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2004-05-01
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The Discreet
Overview: There is an author who has been dumped by his girlfriend and has no inspiration for a next novel. In an attempt to find a solution to both crises, he, along with his publisher friend, decides to seduce a young woman with the singular purpose of keeping a diary of the seduction and then dump her before publishing the book about it. Unfortunately he falls in love with her.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1990-11-21
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Those Happy Days
Overview: Set in 1992, a manager Vincent has to run a children's holiday camp for three weeks and to face the unexpected concerning the place, his colleagues, various problems linked to children about the rooms, trips, their belongings...
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2006-06-28
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Good Old Daze
Overview: Ten years after their Upper Sixth, Bruno, Momo, Leon and Alain meet together in the waiting room of a maternity hospital. The father of the awaited baby is Tomasi, their best friend at that time, who died one month before due to an overdose. They remember their teenage, their laughs, their dreams, their stupid pranks... a description of the French youth in the middle of the seventies.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1995-01-11
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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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