Isild Le Besco
Also Known As: イジルド・ル・ベスコ
Biography: Isild Le Besco (born 22 November 1982) is a French actress and filmmaker. She has starred in many films, including Sade (2000), a French film starring Daniel Auteuil, and in The Good Heart, directed by Dagur Kari. She is the sister of actress and film director Maiwenn, and the daughter of actress Catherine Belkhodja.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Paris, France
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The Good Heart
Overview: Jacques is the curmudgeonly owner of a gritty New York dive bar that serves as home to a motley assortment of professional drinkers. Jacques is determinedly drinking and smoking himself to death when he meets Lucas, a homeless young man who has already given up on life. Determined to keep his legacy alive, Jacques deems Lucas is a fitting heir and takes him under his wing.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-09-11
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Le Choix d'Elodie
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Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1999-01-01
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My Darling Family
Overview: A famous retired opera singer reunites with her children.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2024-08-11
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Wild Camp
Overview: A tranquil campground in rural France is the backdrop for this erotic sizzler between beautiful teenager Camille and down on his luck ex con, Blaise. Fresh out of prison, Blaise accepts a job as sailing instructor at the camp. Haunted by violent nightmares and reminded daily of his estranged wife and children, Blaise tries mightily to resist Camille’s charms. But the girl’s spontaneity and nubile sexuality awaken Blaise’s own repressed capacity for life.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2005-10-13
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A Parting Shot
Overview: A rebellious teenager and a "border-line" young nurse will learn to tame each other and get a fresh start in life...
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2007-05-30
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Adolphe
Overview: Twenty-year old Adolphe finds himself drawn irresistibly to Ellénore, a married woman who is ten years his senior. Although she initially repels her young suitor’s unwanted advances, Ellénore soon yields to his charms and the two embark on a passionate love affair.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2002-10-30
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A Moment of Happiness
Overview: Philippe, 25, arrives one morning in Arcachon, where his sister lives. He is a young man with no ties, someone people easily confide in. He works seasonal jobs in the restaurant industry. Betty, 20, is a young mother full of life and tenderness for her 5-year-old son, Damien. They still live within the family household, but Betty's relationship with her father is strained. Damien is affected by this tense atmosphere. Betty finds a job, leaves the family home, and gains independence. Betty and Philippe will cross paths.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2002-03-06
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Girls Can't Swim
Overview: Gwen is a teenager living in a small coastal town. Lise is her best friend, a city girl who comes every year with her family to spend the summer. This year things are different though; at first Lise might not come at all, and when she does it is obvious that Gwen grew up faster than she did.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2000-10-18
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Backstage
Overview: An adolescent groupie zeroes in on her Blondie-like idol after the singer chances to cross her orbit on a publicity tour. Gradually their lives intertwine as, with near-operatic intensity, the film delves into the emotional dependency on both sides of celebrity culture.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2005-11-16
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Roberto Succo
Overview: 'Kurt' claims to be a sales rep. He also claims to be English in spite of his heavy Italian accent. Kurt is an habitual liar and a dangerous driver, at the very least. In the south of France he meets Léa, age 16. Between his increasingly strange dates with Léa, Kurt engages in a number of armed robberies, some successful, some not... The police are perplexed by a series of crimes including disappearances and a murder. They conclude that they are dealing with a madman... After he proposes, Léa breaks up with Kurt. The attempt to find a new girlfriend leads to a shooting by Kurt, now calling himself André. Léa's information identifies Kurt/André as Roberto Succo, psychiatric patient and parental murderer. The police hunt for Roberto covers three countries.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2001-05-14
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Deep in the Woods
Overview: A wanderer named Timothee arrives in a French village in 1865 pretending to be deaf and mute. He uses tricks to hypnotize a beautiful young woman named Josephine and takes advantage of her until he is arrested and tried for his crimes.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2010-10-13
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Sade
Overview: A man prepares himself to be transferred to a detention center and rest home where he will relive one more time the highlights of his youth.
Genres: History Drama Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2000-08-23
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The Cost of Living
Overview: Une héritière qui n'arrive pas à hériter, un radin qui ne peut rien dépenser, un petit garçon qui trouve un billet dans la rue, un restaurateur prodigue qui ne fait que donner... Tels sont, entre autres, les personnages de ce film "choral". Pourquoi certains dépensent-ils de manière convulsive là où d'autres retiennent l'argent comme la partie la plus vitale de leur être ? On croit parler d'argent, mais c'est d'amour dont il s'agit.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2003-07-30
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You Will Be Mine
Overview: Marie leaves home to study the piano at the conservatory in Lyons. Through lack of money, she is obliged to share an apartment with Emma, a friend of the family who has lived alone since the death of her father. The two young women develop a strange fascination for one another, which soon develops into an intense mutual need...
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2009-03-11
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À tout de suite
Overview: A girl from bourgeoisie discovers the pleasures of banditism, following her lover in his lifestyle.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2004-09-09
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The Repentant
Overview: A mysterious woman, dressed in black and carrying a small suitcase, arrives in Nice and tries in vain to get a job in a luxury goods shop. She ends up in a plush hotel where a solitary middle-aged man, engages her to be his companion. They introduce themselves - she is Charlotte, he is Paul. Both are reluctant to talk about their past; both need someone to make their present predicament more tolerable. Unbeknownst to either of them, Charlotte is being followed by another man, who seems intent on revenge...
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2002-04-17
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The Untouchable
Overview: After learning from her mother that her father lives in India, a young woman goes there to meet him for the first time.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2006-12-06
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La Puce
Overview: Marion is a 14-year-old girl who is on holiday with her family by the sea in Normandy. But she soon comes into conflict with her mother and siblings. There she also meets a man named Marc, to whom she feels attracted, who sees her and desires her. Back in Paris, she visits him again. For the first time in her life, she will make love to him.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1999-11-17
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Manhattan Romance
Overview: Annette is a young French actress. During her stay in New York to promote her latest film, she meets up with Alex, an Armenian photographer and long time friend. As the week progresses, they become inseparable and spend all of their time with together. They meet different people in New York and draw comparisons and differences with their own views and ideas of love, marriage, friendship and life. They have a special connection, but there is something unspoken between them. They begin to reveal themselves only when Alex photographs Annette throughout New York City. From friends to lovers there is only one step. Their relationship is about to unravel, but is it?
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-10-15
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Les amis de Ninon
Overview: Ninon, an overwhelmed wife and mother, decides to invite some of her former lovers to her birthday.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1998-03-25
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Les brigands
Overview: Karl Escher, the son of a prominent banker, was accused of embezzlement and forgery at the bank and went to prison for three years. After his release, he seeks revenge against his brother Franz, whom he believes to be the real culprit.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2015-02-26
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The House by the Canal
Overview: After her parents' death, a young woman moves in with her unsophisticated country relatives with unfortunate results.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2003-02-13
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Girl for a Day
Overview: 18th century. Anne, grown up, has to "change her clothes" because of her attraction to women. Now a man, he marries and has a great love affair with his new wife, until his past catches up with him. The shocking true story of Anne Grandjean, born intersex, and their resounding trial, which still questions all our certainties today.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2024-05-08
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The New Girlfriend
Overview: A young woman makes a surprising discovery about the husband of her late best friend.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2014-10-11
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My King
Overview: Tony is admitted to a rehabilitation center after a serious ski accident. Dependent on the medical staff and pain relievers, she takes time to look back on a turbulent relationship that she experienced with Georgio.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2015-10-21
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Portrait of the Artist
Overview: A famous filmmaker works on his next film, which will focus on monstrosity. He is obsessed by the idea of finding a painting that will be central to the film and will crystallize all the power and beauty of monsters. But what he doesn't show to anyone, not even his wife, is the mark on his back that keeps getting bigger. This red mark worries him, upsets him, and seems to want to tell him something...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2015-03-15
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Madeleine d’entre les Morts
Overview: In Madeleine Among the Dead, Bonello wanted to tell Hitchcock’s Vertigo from the perspective of Madeleine (played by Kim Novak), not Scottie (James Stewart). He only filmed a scene of this project as part of another film by Antoine Barraud, Le Dos Rouge, in which Bonello plays the role of a director by the same name; a director whose films are all either invented or his “ghost-movies.”
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2014-10-03
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A Song of Innocence
Overview: Antoine Santana - Issues of class, gender roles and parenting bubble to the surface in this 19th-century tale about a shepherd girl (Isild Le Besco) who farms off her own newborn to a wet nurse in the countryside so that she can earn high wages nursing the infant of a wealthy couple. The two young mothers soon become friends, but trouble arises when the bourgeois hubby takes issue with his wife fraternizing with the help. Émilie Dequenne and Grégoire Colin star. - Isild Le Besco, Émilie Dequenne, Grégoire Colin
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2005-08-31
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The Beautiful Occasion
Overview: A fun fair, on a wasteland, on the outskirts of a small provincial town in the south of France.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2017-04-12
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Les Vacances
Overview: Anne doesn't have enough money to take her daughter, Mélody, away from the small provincial town where they live for a few days during the summer holidays. In the face of her daughter's disappointment and incomprehension, she does all she can to find the money.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1997-05-01
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U
Overview: Since her parents passed away, Princess Mona lives by herself in a castle with two hideous, ghastly characters, Goomi and His Lordship. One day her sobs draw the attention of a unicorn, called U, who wants to comfort and protect Mona for as long as she needs. U becomes Mona's companion, her confidant and her inseparable friend. While Mona grows into a beautiful princess, a group of charming, peaceful and fanciful Yeah-Yeah’s settles in the neighboring forest. They have no particular special powers, yet they soon bring about major changes in everyone's lives, especially in Kulka, the dreamy musician.
Genres: Animation Fantasy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2006-10-11
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Adieu, Babylone
Overview: A teenage girl from Paris decides to complete the aborted journey of a young man whom she secretly has a crush on.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-02-21
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Two in the Wave
Overview: An in-depth analysis of the relationship between New Wave pioneers François Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard, as seen through rare archival footage, interviews, and film excerpts — written and narrated by former Cahiers du Cinéma editor Antoine de Baecque.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2010-05-19
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Princesse Marie
Overview: The story of Napoleon Bonaparte's grandniece, the famous Princess Marie, her friendship and her work with Sigmund Freud.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2004-03-04
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Rouge
Overview: A companion to the director's Le Dos Rouge/Portrait of the Artist. A famous filmmaker works on his next film, which will focus on monstrosity. He is obsessed by the idea of finding a painting that will be central to the film and will crystallize all the power and beauty of monsters.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2015-06-11
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