Patrice Valota
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Department: Acting
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Gender: Male
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The Tenth Man
Overview: During World War 2 the Germans arrested people at random off the streets of Paris and in retaliation to sabotage by the resistance announced the execution of one in ten prisoners. Chosen as one of the victims, lawyer Chavel trades his place with another man in return for all his possessions. At the end of the war he returns to his house and tries to integrate himself with the family of the man who traded places with him, all the while hiding his true identity. However matters are complicated when a stranger arrives claiming to be Chavel.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-12-04
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Simon le juste
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2003-01-29
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The Vintner's Luck
Overview: A fantasy romance set in 19th century France. The film revolves around Sobran, a young peasant winemaker, and the three important figures in his life - his beautiful wife Celeste, baroness Aurora de Valday and an angel named Xas.
Genres: Fantasy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-09-01
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Justinien Trouve, or God's Bastard
Overview: Set in the French countryside in the 1600s, a lone rider deposits a newborn baby boy on the steps of a monastery, having bitten his nose off. The child is bought up by an ex-pirate and his wife and is taught to read, write, count, joust and fence, and is also given a wooden nose. However, he is ordered by a local baron to attend a tough seminary, but he soon rebels and makes an action-packed escape...
Genres: Comedy Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1993-09-15
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Follow My Gaze
Overview: A long parade of actors and actresses pop up in an unconnected series of skits, vignettes, and sight gags in this comedy anthology by Jean Curtelin. Among the sketches performed is one with Jean Carmet playing a man from the sticks woefully burdened with the challenge of getting through a dog food commercial on less than one tank of intelligible French. Another skit shows a silent duel between an airport custodian and an automatic door, while another with the renowned Michel Galabru sets up a strange teacher-student exchange.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1986-04-23
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Vice Squad
Overview: A young woman is found dead, nude and drugged with tropanyme (a powerful aphrodisiac). Inspector Corentin from the vice squad will go after this new drug and prostitution ring.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1978-07-30
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A Man and a Woman: 20 Years Later
Overview: Jean-Louis and Anne have had their fling and separated. Now 20 years have passed. He is still dating various women. She is now a big-time director whose most recent film was a very expensive bomb. She comes up with the idea of making a romance based upon her fling with Jean-Louis. She contacts him to gain his permission. Jean-Louis is still in racing and goes away for a desert rally while she begins filming. She finds the mood of their romance difficult to recapture in her film.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1986-05-13
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Hymne à la gazelle
Overview: A César award nominated short feature about a lady who unwittingly seeks shelter in a bar where she attracts the unwelcome attentions of one of the customers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2003-11-26
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Brigade mondaine: Vaudou aux Caraïbes
Overview: Corentin and Brichot investigate drug trafficking in Fort-de-France, Martinique.
Genres: Adventure Crime Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1980-07-23
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Toujours seuls
Overview: A large family crams into a three-room flat in a drab suburb.Twelve people ,soon joined,out of the blue, by the prodigal son, released from jail.To make matters worse,the TV set , then the sofa and finally the refrigerator vanish into thin air.Neverthelesss, life goes on ,with mom's nervous breakdowns , dad's absences ;The daughter, Julie, an abandoned social worker,is always sobbing ; her sister , rehearsing the "Hebrew slaves chorus" is eagerly waiting for her drafted fiancee.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1991-06-26
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5 Kittens
Overview: A 'gang' of five young women spend their days shoplifting, hitchhiking and having orgies.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1973-07-18
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Marrakesh Cult
Overview: The crime squad follows a track that leads to a Morrocan drug and prostitution ring. They end up involved into an international school to form a mercenary army for non democratic governments.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1979-08-01
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Mélancolie ouvrière
Overview: Long live the strike! Lucie Baud, one of the pioneers of the women's movement, went with creativity, fighting spirit and the power of singing against the weapons of male-dominated capitalist society in nineteenth-century France. The film, based on true events, describes the ambitious fight of a silk moth. She stood up for the rights of the female working class to end maltreatment and oppression once and for all. For the revolution in women's rights, she even put her family back and fought to the end for their beliefs.
Genres: History Drama TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2018-02-07
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Demain, je me marie
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2011-02-09
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Quand je vois le soleil
Overview: Raphaël, a draughtsman, and Margot, a prima ballerina, love each other passionately. But they learn that Margot suffers from an incurable disease.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2003-07-16
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The Grapes of Death
Overview: A young woman discovers that the pesticide being sprayed on vineyards is turning people into murderous lunatics.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1978-07-05
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Billy Ze Kick
Overview: Billy Ze Kick is name of a fictional serial killer in a bedtime story that a police inspector reads to his daughter. Soon three girls turn up murdered in his neighbourhood, and the killer leaves a note signed "Billy Ze Kick."
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1985-12-18
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