Albert Dupontel
Also Known As: Philippe Guillaume, Альбер Дюпонтель
Biography: Albert Dupontel (born 11 January 1964 in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Yvelines) is a French actor and filmmaker. Description above from the Wikipedia article Albert Dupontel, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Yvelines, France
Adult: No
Birthday: January 11, 1964
Age: 61 years old
Gender: Male
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Irreversible
Overview: A woman’s lover and her ex-boyfriend take justice into their own hands after she becomes the victim of a rapist. Because some acts can’t be undone. Because man is an animal. Because the desire for vengeance is a natural impulse. Because most crimes remain unpunished.
Genres: Drama Thriller Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2002-05-22
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Avenue Montaigne
Overview: A young woman arrives in Paris where she finds a job as a waitress in bar next on Avenue Montaigne that caters to the surrounding theaters and the wealthy inhabitants of the area. She will meet a pianist, a famous actress and a great art collector, and become acquainted with the "luxurious" world her grandmother has told her about since her childhood.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2006-02-15
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A Very Long Engagement
Overview: Young Frenchwoman Mathilde searches for the truth about her missing fiancé, lost during World War I, and learns many unexpected things along the way. The love of her life is gone. But she refuses to believe he's gone forever — and she needs to know for sure.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2004-10-27
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Odette Toulemonde
Overview: Objectively, Odette Toulemonde has nothing to be happy about, but is. Balthazar Balsan has everything to be happy about, but isn’t. Odette, awkwardly forty, with a delightful hairdresser son and a daughter bogged down in adolescence, spends her days behind the cosmetic’s counter in a department store and her nights sewing feathers on costumes for Parisian variety shows. She dreams of thanking Balthazar Balsan, her favorite author, to whom – she believes – she owes her optimism. The rich and charming Parisian writer then turns up in her life in an unexpected way.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2007-02-07
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Serial Lover
Overview: Claire Doste is about to reach the age of 35 and has everything one dreams of, such as having four boyfriends and a creative job in a publishing house specialising in crime novels. One day, she invites all of her boyfriends to her birthday dinner so that she can pick out her would-be fiancé. But an accident happens when Claire is getting the dinner ready.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1998-04-22
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Louise-Michel
Overview: In this radical and endearing black comedy, a group of retrenched female factory workers decide to pool their compensation money… and hire a hit man to liquidate their boss.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2008-11-12
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Cash Truck
Overview: Vigilante, a small armored truck company, is in full crisis mode. Victim of three violent hold-ups in a year, which left no survivors, the company is on the verge of bankruptcy and its employees are extremely worried. Some even suggest a complicity between the robbers and the firm. It is in this difficult context that a man, Alexandre Demarre, one morning presents himself to start his first day of work at Vigilante.
Genres: Action Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2004-04-14
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Paris
Overview: Pierre, a professional dancer, suffers from a serious heart disease. While he is waiting for a transplant which may (or may not) save his life, he has nothing better to do than look at the people around him, from the balcony of his Paris apartment.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2008-02-20
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Love Me No More
Overview: Antoine Méliot is around 40 years old and has everything he needs to be happy: a beautiful wife, two adorable children, friends he can count on, a pretty house in the Yvelines and money. But one day he decides to ruin everything in one weekend.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2008-04-30
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Chrysalis
Overview: Paris 2020, a high tech surgeon and her daughter are involved in a horrific car accident, the surgeon saves her daughter's life at the cost of manipulating her dreams and memories.
Genres: Action Thriller Crime Science Fiction
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2007-06-25
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Intimate Enemies
Overview: A drama following a French platoon during Algeria's war of independence.
Genres: Drama War History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2007-10-03
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Monique
Overview: Suffering from depression and marital problems, Alex mistakenly orders a life-size doll, whom he names "Monique". With the help of Monique, Alex turns his life around; however she soon becomes the envy of his friends and wife.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2002-08-21
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The Villain
Overview: With gun-toting rivals on his tail, a daring bank robber takes refuge in the quiet residential street here he grew up and where his mother, Maniette, still lives. An unscrupulous property developer, Korazy, is buying up the neighborhood to turn it into a gleaming new banking district, but to her son's disgust Maniette leads the inhabitants resistance. Her ingenious methods provoke her boy's admiration, but he fights back with sneaky traps and underhand tricks when Maniette tries to force him to do the right thing just once in his life.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2009-11-25
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Locked Out
Overview: Once upon a time, somewhere... a homeless guy finds a policeman's uniform...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2006-04-05
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I Am Your Punishment
Overview: An avid moviegoer sees several films depicting grisly murderers and decides to commit a crime himself, only to discover that there's quite a difference between fantasy and reality.
Genres: Horror Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-10-10
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Avida
Overview: The kidnapping of a plump billionaire's dog by a deaf-mute and 2 ketamine addicts goes wrong. The wealthy woman takes advantage of the situation to make them fullfil her last wishes.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2006-09-13
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President
Overview: State secrets, sincere convictions, ecstatic crowds, a regal lifestyle, prying journalists, suspicious disappearances: what goes on behind the scenes in the halls of power or the daily life of a President.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2006-09-20
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Jacquou the Rebel
Overview: In 1815, young Jacquou lives an idyllic peasant life with his parents in the Périgord region of France. But one day, his childhood happiness is cruelly ended when his father is arrested, after a dispute with the arrogant Count de Nansac. With both his parents dead, Jacquou is adopted by Bonal, a kind priest, under whose influence he grows into an assured, morally upright young man. Now an adult, Jacquou has one desire. To repay the Count de Nansac for the evil he once inflicted on his parents...
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2007-01-17
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Dead Man's Hand
Overview: Jean V., huissier de justice de quarante ans, exerce son métier avec talent mais sans faire preuve d'humanité. Il est marié à Nicole, 35 ans et consommatrice en crise. Régulièrement, Jean a recours aux services de George, débiteur chronique et personnage folklorique, qui l'aide dans ses "petites combines". Incidemment, George redonne à Nicole le goût d'acheter. Un jour, Jean fait la rencontre d'Eddy, un policier qui l'accompagne durant sa tournée des saisies. Mais un différent les oppose et va prendre des dimensions disproportionnées. Poussé à bout, Jean décide de monter avec George une sombre machination pour donner une leçon au flic.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2002-02-06
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Actors
Overview: Les Acteurs is the absurd story of Jean-Pierre Marielle desperately waiting for a cup of hot water, the story of a conspiracy against actors, the story of aging actors whose careers are slowly less active than they used to be, but a stunning tribute to French actors and their cinema.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2000-04-05
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A Self-Made Hero
Overview: Set in France at the end of World War II Albert Dehousse finds out his father wasn't a war hero and his mother is a collaborator.
Genres: Drama War Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1996-05-15
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The Clink of Ice
Overview: An alcoholic writer is visited by an incarnation of his cancer.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2010-08-25
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Bernie
Overview: Bernie, a 30 years old orphan, decides to leave his orphanage and find his parents. After an investigation, he meets Marion, a young heroin addict and falls in love with her. He believes that his family was victim of a plot and this is why they deserted him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1996-11-27
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Le créateur
Overview: A playwright of note, Darius developed a drinking problem after his first major hit, and has taken time out from writing his follow-up to go to a clinic and dry out. After his release, Darius finds his producer has hired a leading lady for his next show, booked the theater and advertised the starting date -- all without Darius writing so much as a word of this new play. Darius desperately tries to come up with ideas, but nothing comes to mind, with an inflexible deadline staring him in the face. One day, Darius kills a neighbor's cat by accident; terribly depressed, he swallows some sedatives and falls asleep at his computer -- only to awake with the beginning of his play glowing on the screen. Darius is now convinced he must kill in order to create, and starts murdering an ever-expanding variety of creatures in order to satisfy his now bloodthirsty muse.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1999-06-16
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The Big Night
Overview: An ageing punk-with-a-dog and his brother the conformist decide to get their revenge on a shopping mall. Directing duo Benoit Delepine and Gustave Kervern, longstanding comic crusaders against capitalism, again set out to surprise and shock the bourgeois audience.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2012-06-06
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Le Débarquement
Overview: Inspired by the American program Saturday Night Live from NBC, around thirty actors take part in various humorous sketches.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2013-01-18
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Gang of Four
Overview: Anna, Joyce, Claude and Lucia are all students under the tutelage of Constance Dumas, a renowned film instructor. Lucia moves in with the other girls. Soon after, she is attacked on the street outside her home and saved by a mysterious stranger.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1989-02-08
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Bigbug
Overview: Set in the world of 2045, where communities have robotic helpers, a group of suburbanites are locked in for their protection by their household robots, while a rogue, self-aware AI android revolt uprising takes place outside.
Genres: Science Fiction Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2022-02-11
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Albert Dupontel - Le sale DVD
Overview: First part of the Dirty Show: - Reproduction - Rambo - The argument - Tray - Bob - Thirty million grannies - The second part of the apartment Dirty Show: - The rotten gold - The Last Judgement - Girls - The break - Thérèse - Burt - life's - The hard-rocker
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1991-07-31
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The Prey
Overview: A robber escapes from prison with a single objective in mind: to track down his former cellmate, a serial killer who intends to pin his crimes on him. A cop is sent after the robber who, despite his best efforts, soon becomes Public Enemy Number One. As the protagonists are driven to their limits, it becomes increasingly unclear who is the hunter and who is the prey.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2011-04-12
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Second Tour
Overview: A disgraced political journalist placed in the soccer section, Miss Pove is asked to follow the presidential campaign in progress. The front-runner is a fifty-year-old heir to a powerful French family and a political novice. Troubled by this candidate, whom she has known to be less smooth in the past, Miss Pove embarks on an investigation that is as surprising as it is jubilant.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2023-10-25
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Belmondo, itinéraire...
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2011-05-18
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9 Month Stretch
Overview: Ariane Felder is pregnant! This is surprising with her being a young hardened judge with strict morals. But what is more surprising is that, according to paternity testing, the child's father is none other than Bob, a criminal from the prosecution charged with an atrocious attack! Ariane doesn't remember any of what has happened, so she has no idea what to expect...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2013-09-07
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Once More
Overview: Louis is a family man, with a wife and young daughter, who discovers in mid-life that he is gay.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-05-27
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Albert Dupontel à l'Olympia
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1992-01-01
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Les Sales Histoires
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1990-07-24
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Albert Dupontel au Tristan Bernard
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1991-10-01
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Le Débarquement 2
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2013-12-20
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Irréversible : à l'envers et contre tout
Overview: A documentary on the making of Irréversible
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2021-05-17
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Every Man for Yourself
Overview: Georges Flavier, once renowned Parisian hairdresser, lives alone since the death of his son and the departure of his wife. One night, he saves a stranger from drowning in the Canal Saint-Martin.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1994-01-24
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In Harmony
Overview: After a serious accident on a film shoot, Marc, an equestrian, loses all hope to mount back on. His insurance company instructs Florence to handle his case. This film is the story of their meeting.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2015-04-15
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La Nuit Du Doute
Overview: The dismay of North Africans living in France in the 1980s. For the girls, born for the most part in France and attending French schools, they experience the difficulty of understanding and adapting for their parents in the face of this new world, these new mores, relegated among themselves to housing projects, HLM breeding grounds of economic cannon fodder. Jamila has a French friend who bursts into her family with his culture. From this situation arises misunderstandings and unease, which widen the gap between parents and their daughter. A story where tenderness, heartbreak and suffering combine.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1989-01-02
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Désiré
Overview: The year is 2050, in this future giving birth is nothing more than a simple formality. But the birth of Désiré will be much more painful...
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1993-04-05
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The Irreversible Odyssey
Overview: The Irreversible Odyssey is a retrospective documentary featuring interviews with Gaspar Noé, actors Monica Bellucci, Vincent Cassel and Albert Dupontel.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2019-01-01
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L'origine du monde
Overview: A young policeman of Moroccan origin investigates the murder of an informer. His investigations soon lead him to question his own past.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2001-05-09
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Sachs' Disease
Overview: Dr. Bruno Sachs, the only medical practitioner in a small French town, seems on the surface to be compassionate and dedicated. However, in private he is not happy in his work and does not like most of his patients. Here he meets Pauline Kasser, a young woman, and they are attracted to each other...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1999-09-22
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The First, the Last
Overview: Apocalyptic neo-western about two gangsters, a town full of crazy people and Jesus...
Genres: Drama Comedy Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2016-01-27
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See You Up There
Overview: In November 1918, a few days before the Armistice, when Lieutenant Pradelle orders a senseless attack, he causes a useless disaster; but his outrageous act also binds the lives of two soldiers who have nothing more in common than the battlefield: Édouard saves Albert, although at a high cost. They become companions in misfortune who will attempt to survive in a changing world. Pradelle, in his own way, does the same.
Genres: Drama Crime War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2017-10-25
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Blue Away to America
Overview: The victim of a serious accident, Camille finds himself in a strange, huge, rehabilitation centre run by Professor Helpos. He soon teams up with a group calling themselves "the wreckers" and who make their own rules, ignoring those of the medical establishment.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1999-12-01
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Two Snails Set Off
Overview: A forest full of animated animals encourage a pair of snails, who are fully clad in black because they are in mourning for a dead leaf, to celebrate the new spring and reclaim the colors of life. Based on the children's poem by Jacques Prévert entitled "Chanson des escargots qui font à l'enterrement" ("Song of the snails who are on their way to a funeral").
Genres: Animation Family Fantasy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2017-06-08
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Belmondo by Belmondo
Overview: Jean-Paul Belmondo returns to the settings of a fantastic career, accompanied by his son Paul. Over a career spanning 50 years, Jean-Paul Belmondo’s movies drew over 130 million people into cinemas. This logbook takes us back to sets and countries, from where we can revisit the films in reference and find out about his fruitful collaborations with various directors. Paul Belmondo will lead the investigation, meeting the stars and his father’s friends (eye-witnesses all) and questioning his father about his journey, sharing it with us so we can discover the man and his story like never before.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2016-05-05
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Cinéma… par Albert Dupontel
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2017-10-18
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Bye Bye Morons
Overview: When 43-year-old hairdresser Suze Trappet finds out that she's seriously ill, she decides to go looking for a child she was forced to abandon when she was only 15. On her madcap bureaucratic quest she crosses paths with JB, a 50-year-old man in the middle of a burnout, and Mr. Blin, a blind archivist prone to overenthusiasm. The unlikely trio set off on a hilarious and poignant helterskelter journey across the city in search of Suze's long-lost child.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2020-10-21
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The Car Keys
Overview: Who would think losing car keys could lead us that far ? Be careful, adventure is on every street corner...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2003-12-10
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Belmondo l'influenceur
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2020-11-10
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Still Not...Breathless
Overview: Documentary about the ongoing influence of 'Breathless' after 60 years
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2020-11-04
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Giorgino
Overview: October 1918: After returning to the civil life, the young Doctor Giorgino Volli searches for a group of children, which he had been the care-taker of before the first world war began. However, soon the searching becomes a part of hide-and-seek with death. Giorgino finds a village bordered with a treacherous marsh and rumours of wolves. There he also meets the mysterious Catherine....
Genres: Drama Horror Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1994-10-05
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Une année au front : dans les coulisses de "Un long dimanche de fiançailles"
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2005-04-27
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Le vilain : Instantanés
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2010-04-01
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Irreversible: Straight Cut
Overview: The chronological-cut of Gaspar Noe's controversial arthouse thriller, retelling the story of a couple who experience an act of brutal violence that changes their lives forever.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2023-02-10
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