Jo Prestia
Also Known As: Prestia, Joe Prestia, Joé Prestia, Joseph Prestia
Biography: Jo Prestia (born 5 June 1960 in Porto Empedocle) is an Italian born French kick boxer and actor. He appeared in more than seventy films since 1996 and is best known for his performance as Le Tenia in the controversial 2002 film, Irréversible. Source: Article "Jo Prestia" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Porto Empedocle (AG), Sicilia, Italia
Birthday: June 05, 1960
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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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Requiem
Overview: Four hardened crooks break out of prison. Hunted down, with nowhere to run, they seek refuge in the only place the police cannot follow, a Cistercian monastery. Cut off from the outside world, a nightmare stand off develops between the fugitives, ready to kill in defence of their dearly purchased freedom, and the monks they' re holding hostage. But in this potentially lethal confrontation, nothing is quite as it seems. The game' s been rigged from the start. Requiem' s a violent and fast paced French film that really delivers.
Genres: Action Horror Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2001-12-28
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Salut cousin !
Overview: The comedy in this lively film barely conceals its darker, more serious undertones as it chronicles a young Algerian's eye-opening introduction to the joys and travails of being an immigrant in Paris. Alilo has left his home to pick up an important suitcase for his employer. Unfortunately, he has lost the Parisian address. Fortunately, his cousin Mok, emigrated there several years before with his middle-class family before and is able to act as a guide. Mok, an aspiring rap singer, comes from a middle-class family, but chooses to live on his own in the dilapidated deteriorating 18th district, known as 'Moskova.' Mok characterizes the place as a haven for artists and intellectuals, but it is plainly just a Third World slum filled with tightly knit and colorful neighbors. Mok and Alilo have many interesting, some tragedy-tinged adventures over the five days it takes them to find the suitcase.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1996-11-15
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36th Precinct
Overview: The film takes place in Paris, where two cops are competing for the vacant seat of chief of police while in the middle of a search for a gang of violent thieves. The movie is directed by Olivier Marchal, a former police officer who spent 12 years with the French police before creating this story, which is taken in part from real facts that happened during the 1980s in France.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2004-11-24
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13 Tzameti
Overview: Sebastian, a young man, has decided to follow instructions intended for someone else, without knowing where they will take him. Something else he does not know is that Gerard Dorez, a cop on a knife-edge, is tailing him. When he reaches his destination, Sebastian falls into a degenerate, clandestine world of mental chaos behind closed doors in which men gamble on the lives of others men.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2005-09-01
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Calvaire
Overview: A few days before Christmas, traveling entertainer Marc Stevens is stuck at nightfall in a remote wood in the swampy Hautes Fagnes region of Liège when his van breaks down. An odd chap who's looking for a lost dog then leads Marc to a shuttered inn.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2005-03-09
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The Dreamlife of Angels
Overview: Isa and Marie bond while working in a French sweatshop and soon begin sharing an apartment that Marie is watching for a hospitalized mother and daughter. Marie, hoping to avoid a life of struggle and poverty, takes up with Chriss, a nightclub owner whose most attractive asset is his money. Isa recognizes the ultimate futility of the relationship and tries to keep Marie away from him, but her interference puts their friendship at risk.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1998-10-16
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Rivoallan
Overview: An undercover cop is unmasked during a drug deal. A shootout ensues that will leave more than one person dead...
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2008-01-01
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The Pimp
Overview: A mild-mannered banker is forced to masquerade as a notorious gangster and pimp.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2010-02-16
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Par suite d'un arrêt de travail...
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2008-07-02
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The Horde
Overview: A bunch of crooked cops raid a ruined building located in an impoverished suburb of Paris, determined to furiously avenge the death of one of them, murdered by the ruthless criminal gang hidden on top of the dark labyrinth that will become a deathly trap when the living, unexpectedly turned into the undead by a mysterious plague, begin to devour the world.
Genres: Action Horror Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2010-02-10
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Lovely Rita
Overview: Edgar Lamarck - an accountant and auditor is coming to the the shipyard on Cote d'Azur in order to check the statements. After completing his mission, he decides to relax and spend the night with the green-eyed blonde with a curvy shape who he met on a porn site. Coming to Rita, he discovers weedy brunette with a pistol in her hand, standing over a fresh corpse. It's not a girl Edgar was looking for but now it's too late to retreat...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2003-09-24
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Total Western
Overview: After a drug deal gone wrong, Bédé goes into hiding in the countryside at a reformative school for criminal youth. His location is found out, and he and the pupils have to protect themselves with whatever means they have.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2000-06-13
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Super Z
Overview: The adventures of a family of genetically modified super-zombies.
Genres: Horror Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2022-10-31
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Rage
Overview: Raphael is an ex-boxing champ who now trains his young brother Manu. Tony, Raphael's ex-rival, returns to town to wed his reluctant fiance Chinh. As soon as Chinh and Raphael meet, sparks fly, and soon the two are sneaking out together.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-04-16
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Crocs
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Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2019-03-18
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Vent mauvais
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Genres: Thriller Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2007-02-10
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Livraison à domicile
Overview: A pizza delivery guy decides to expand his job and now delivers anything, even a car.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2003-07-02
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Ze Film
Overview: A poor kid nicknamed Kubrick loves movies and dreams about being an award winning director. One day, he stumbles upon a movie shoot, gets confused with a real movie maker and takes the equipment he needs to shoot his movie.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2005-02-23
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Vagabondes
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2019-08-24
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The Little Thief
Overview: In this French drama, a teenager falls into a life of crime, little realizing the consequences. S. is a moody young man who loses his job at a bakery, and decides to throw in his lot with a group of thieves about the same age as himself. S. and his cronies are strictly small-timers, pulling off second-rate break-ins for an older crime boss, but his willingness to do what he's told helps him rise up the ladder to bigger and more lucrative jobs. However, S. lacks the maturity or experience to deal with the risks, and after a few disastrous mistakes, he finds his fortunes sinking far faster than they rose.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1999-09-12
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Melody for a Hustler
Overview: French novelist Vincent Ravalec made his directorial debut with this French drama about small-time crook Gaston (Yvan Attal) who poses as a millionaire after he picks up hitchhiking 16-year-old Marie-Pierre (Virginie Lanoue). Actually living in a seedy apartment, Gaston deals in stolen goods, but he soon climbs to bigger heists, including car thefts. Concealing his illegal activities, Gaston operates his company, Extramill, out of upscale, posh offices, while he and Marie-Pierre move into a sedate upper-middle-class neighborhood. Life is sweet, but the onset of paranoia, kinky sex activities, and police probes eventually culminate in violence.
Genres: Drama Comedy Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1998-10-14
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En pays cannibale
Overview: Max and his gang of crazy buddies wander around the depths of a small, quirky, city-dweller community, driven by parties, sex and drugs.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2013-06-26
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The Takedown
Overview: Ousmane Diakité and François Monge are two cops with very different styles, backgrounds and careers. The unlikely pair are reunited once again for a new investigation that takes them across France. What seemed to be a simple drug deal turns out to be a much bigger criminal case wrapped in danger and unexpected comedy.
Genres: Comedy Action
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2022-05-06
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Thugocratie
Overview: Voyoucratie is FGKO’s new film project. It’s a dramatic fiction about a young gangster’s chaotic path into life crushed by a criminal universe that he can’t escape from. It’s also about a frozen portrait of a youth trapped by a system that leads you to delinquency as the only way to exist. The pitch: Sam, a little bandit, finds himself trapped by a corrupted police officer who forces him to get information about Ali, one of the high crime boss known to be very dangerous.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2018-01-31
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Colt 45
Overview: Vincent Miles, a gunsmith and shooting instructor at the National Police, is an expert in combat shooting who stubbornly refuses to join a field brigade, a choice which their colleagues do not understand. When he meets Milo Cardena, a mysterious and skilled cop, his life changes in such way that he cannot ignore his true nature anymore.
Genres: Drama Thriller Action Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2014-08-06
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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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Rai
Overview: Raï is about a gang of youths in a Parisian suburb.This is the multicultural environment in which Mezz, Aziz, Laurent, Nordine, Poisson and the others have grown up. There is no future in Garges-les-Gonesses. Unemployment is high, drugs and violence are a part of everyday life. The opportunity to escape seems nonexistent.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1995-06-28
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Blazing Neon
Overview: Two desperate characters search for freedom in action-packed road movie noir from FGKO, adapted from the thriller by Rémy Lasource.
Genres: Thriller Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2022-11-16
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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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Madame Irma
Overview: Francis, who is in his forties, manages the French subsidiary of an American high-tech company. But the shareholders suddenly decide to close it. Depressed by the idea of being unemployed and the prospect of losing his second wife, Francis decides to consult a fortune-teller. The experience is a real eye-opener for him and the start of a new career: He pretends to be a fortune teller himself and turns into Madame Irma. How to explain that to his wife Clotilde?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2006-12-06
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The Girl from Monaco
Overview: A brilliant and neurotic attorney goes to Monaco to defend a famous criminal. But, instead of focusing on the case, he falls for a beautiful she-devil, who turns him into a complete wreck... Hopefully, his zealous bodyguard will step in and put everything back in order... Or will he ?
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2008-08-20
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Paris Express
Overview: From multicultural Paris to designer Paris, Montmartre to the Champs-Elysées, sleazy sidewalks to high-end galleries... Watch out! Sam the courier is a man on a mission! On his scooter, Sam breaks every rule of the road to make good on the "express delivery" promise of the courier service he works for. But however hard he tries, Sam never gets a bonus from his boss, never beats his slicker colleagues and never gets past his Dad, a cop who books him every time. All Sam has up is Nadia, and she will turn on him if he doesn't show up for her sister's wedding. Trouble is, Sam has one more delivery to make and his day has just gone from bad to worse...
Genres: Comedy Action Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2010-02-24
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Crimson Rivers II: Angels of the Apocalypse
Overview: No one is safe when seemingly random killings emerge as a deadly pattern intended to usher in the end of the world. A murder victim with the same DNA as Christ. A serial killer mimicking the deaths of the 12 Apostles. Inspector Niemans and a young, rebellious detective team up with a beautiful expert in religion to crack the case before their elusive suspect completes the cycle of terror, paving the way to an even bigger bloody catastrophe.
Genres: Action Thriller Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2004-02-18
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The Blonde with Bare Breasts
Overview: Julian, 25, and Louis, 12, are two brothers who work and live on a barge in the centre of Paris. They transport gravel and resort to petty crime to make ends meet. They have grown up alone and now they are inseparable, wedded to a life on the river. A receiver of stolen goods offers them the opportunity of a lifetime, to steal a painting by Manet from the Musée d'Orsay. Louis takes charge of the theft and, against the odds, he succeeds in removing it from the gallery and taking it aboard his barge. Rosalie, a museum guard, follows Louis to his home and confronts him. After a fight, the two brothers secure Rosalie in the hold of their boat and make a quick getaway. Later, Rosalie emerges from her hidey hole and makes the brothers an unexpected offer...
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2010-07-21
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Alibi.com
Overview: Greg founded a company called Alibi.com that creates any type of alibi. With his associate, Augustin, and Medhi his new employee, they devise unstoppable stratagems and stagings to cover their clients. But meeting Flo, a pretty blonde who hates men who lie, will complicate Greg's life, which begins by hiding the true nature of his activity. During the presentation to parents, Greg understands that Gérard, the father of Flo, is also one of their clients.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2017-02-15
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Ares
Overview: In a near future, the world order has changed. With its 10 millions of unemployed citizens, France has now become a poor country. Its people wavers between rebellion and resignation and find an outlet in the shape of TV broadcast ultra brutal fights in which the players are legally doped and unscrupulous.
Genres: Science Fiction Drama Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2016-11-23
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Poker de charme
Overview: A sumptuous palace in Biarritz is the scene of amorous and criminal intrigues.
Genres: Romance TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1999-02-07
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Cosimo and Nicole
Overview: Cosimo is Italian, Nicole French. They meet in Genoa during the G8 protests and immediately fall in love. Swept off their feet by an overwhelming and uncontrollable passion, they decide never to part. After much wandering they decide to return to Genoa, where they start working for a friend of theirs who organises concerts. Things seem to be going well until a tragic accident almost sours their relationship, as a result of which they’re faced with two options that can change their future. Forever.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2012-11-29
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Quand on crie au loup
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2019-07-03
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Grande école
Overview: Paul and Agnes have been going out for quite a while and Agnes is shocked to learn that he'd rather live with two roommates on campus than move in with her. As soon as he meets one of his roommates, Louis-Anault, Paul's behavior changes - he is attracted to Louis without realizing so himself. Agnes, on the other hand, gets quite jealous and offers a bet: Whoever gets to have Louis-Anault first, wins... If she does, Paul will no longer explore his homosexual desires, if he does - she'll walk away. Meanwhile, Paul meets Mecir, a young Arab worker, who shows him there's more to life than elite colleges...
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2004-02-04
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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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Le Baltringue
Overview: Mr Guy aussi populaire que loufoque est un animateur à succès d'une émission de télé-achat. Et comme la nature fait quelques fois bien les choses, Mr Guy se trouve malencontreusement et pour son plus grand plaisir embarqué dans une sombre histoire mêlant les services secrets de la république à un réseau de dangereux trafiquants venus de l'Est.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2010-01-27
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