Valérie Kaprisky
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Biography: Valérie Kaprisky (born August 19, 1962) is a French actress. She was born Valerie Chérès in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, France. Kaprisky is her mother's maiden name. She appeared in soft-core exploitation (Aphrodite), then made her American debut in the A Bout de Souffle remake Breathless (1983) frolicking with Richard Gere with whom she subsequently had a reportedly-tempestuous affair. The film was critically panned and she returned to filming in France. She also appeared in La femme publique (1984) by Andrzej Żuławski, for which she was a nominee for the 1985 César Award for Best Actress. Description above from the Wikipedia article Valérie Kaprisky, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, France
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Birthday: August 19, 1962
Age: 62 years old
Gender: Female
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Breathless
Overview: Jesse, a small-time criminal, high-tails it to Los Angeles to rendezvous with a French exchange student. Stealing a car and accidentally killing a highway patrolman, he becomes the most wanted fugitive in L.A.
Genres: Romance Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-05-13
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Aphrodite
Overview: Harry is a young millionaire on holiday; he takes his yacht to a Greek island, and stays in the mansion of his friend...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1982-01-01
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Special Correspondents
Overview: R2I, a famous news radio station, sends its best reporting duo to Iraq: Frank, journalist, and Poussin, sound engineer. Very quickly, millions of listeners follow their highly documented stories, reflecting the hot intensity of the fighting and the difficult survival of the population.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2009-01-21
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By the Pricking of My Thumbs
Overview: The Beresfords investigate mysterious deaths at an old people's home.
Genres: Comedy Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2005-04-13
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Year of the Jellyfish
Overview: Chris, a sexy teenager who appears mostly bare-breasted on the French Riviera, has a crush on Romain, her mother's lover. In reaction to her inability to attract his attention, she experiments with other risque affairs.
Genres: Thriller Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1984-11-07
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Frenchmen 2
Overview: Alex, Antoine, Jeff and Manu. Four friends, four years later. Their relationships, friendship, shared secrets, feelings of guilt and their desire to change and improve.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2007-10-24
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So Woman!
Overview: Clemence is a brilliant young lawyer who has just settled herself in a comfortable chair. She does not want to be involved in love.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2009-07-15
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Les Irréductibles
Overview: On the day that his son fails his baccalaureate, Michel loses his job. He has been employed at the same factory for twenty years and now he has no job, no qualifications, no prospects. Michel soon realises that the only way he is going to get another job is by first passing his baccalaureate. So, he goes back to school, with his friend Gérard, who is in the same position. Naturally, Michel’s son is not at all pleased to find himself in the same class as his dad...
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2006-06-14
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The Public Woman
Overview: An inexperienced young actress is invited to play a role in a film based on Dostoyevsky's 'The Possessed'. The film director, a Czech immigrant in Paris, takes over her life, and in a short time she is unable to draw the line between acting and reality. She winds up playing a real-life role posing as the dead wife of another Czech immigrant, who is manipulated by the filmmaker into commiting a political assassination.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1984-06-16
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Men Prefer Fat Girls
Overview: Lydie, a physically unattractive young woman, is brutally dumped by her fiancé when she had just acquired the lease of an apartment to live with him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1981-08-19
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Tell Me Yes...
Overview: Handsome pediatric doctor feels unfulfilled, until his affection for a 12-year-old opens him to a romantic view of the world. When she falls ill, he must get closer to her, and a conflict of interests and ethics arise. His medical reputation is at stake.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1995-04-19
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My Friend the Traitor
Overview: After the end of World War II, a collaborationist seeks redemption.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1988-10-26
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The Gypsy
Overview: Hubert Durieux is a banker in a small French town who is struggling to keep up with the demands of all the women in his life. Just when things couldn’t get any worse, his precious white Citroën is stolen under his eyes by a beautiful gypsy girl, Mona.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1986-02-12
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Jean Jaurès, naissance d'un géant
Overview: In 1892, Jean Jaurès, a republican deputy from the bourgeoisie, supported the miners' strike in Carmaux, in the south of France.
Genres: History TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2005-03-08
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Brantôme 81: Vie de dames galantes
Overview: Five bourgeoisie women. Five men - husbands or companions - who, in different fields, possess a certain power. Characters who live in embassy lounges, frequent palaces and large houses, travel in expensive cars and yachts, eager for pleasure, guided by ambition.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1982-03-24
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A Place Among the Living
Overview: A mediocre pulp novelist is approached by a stranger claiming to be a serial killer with a proposition to chronicle his crimes.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2003-08-28
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Rendez-moi ma fille
Overview: A singer tries to get her daughter out of the grip of a guru by becoming a member of his cult herself.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1994-11-11
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Glam
Overview: Traveling from the backwoods to Los Angeles to visit his cousin, a writer discovers a world of sex, drugs, crime and violence revolving around a beautiful young woman and her mobster boyfriend.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-05-08
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We Love You, You Bastard
Overview: A war photographer and absent father, who spends more time taking care of his camera than his four daughters, enjoys a happy life in the Alps with his new girlfriend. But his life is turned upside down the day that his best friend tries to reconcile him with his family by telling them a big lie.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2014-04-02
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La fine è nota
Overview: A young lawyer returns home and discovers that a man has committed suicide jumping through a window of his house. His wife, Maria, says that she let the unknown man enter because he said the lawyer was the only one who could help him. Bernardo start to investigate about the man and about the reasons of his suicide.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1993-02-10
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Desire in Motion
Overview: During the long train ride from Montreal to Vancouver, a man and woman find themselves increasingly attracted to each other.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1994-01-01
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Il tesoro di Damasco
Overview: A mysterious black marble tablet is found in Syrian desert by an Arab terrorist after an attack on a UN scientific expedition.
Genres: Adventure Action Mystery
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1998-10-06
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Once Upon a Time in Algeria
Overview: The childhood of the movie director Antoine Lisner, who left Algeria in 1962. In order to present his new movie, he comes back to Algiers with his son.
Genres: Comedy Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2023-11-15
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Stradivari
Overview: As a boy the orphan Antonio Stradivari heard for the first time in his life the sound of a violin and he was fascinated by its voice. He tried to construct a violin and attracted the attention of Niccolò Amati, a famous lutist of Cremona. Antonio became apprentice in his bottega (workshop). Grown up, he fell in love for Francesca and he succeeded in marrying her. Afterwards he became more and more famous for his violins and he was granted a diploma from the king of Spain. After the death of his wife he was almost forced to marry again. He was chosen by Antonia Maria and it will be a happy marriage. In the background we have a look at the history of Northern Italy during the seventeenth century.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1988-09-28
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3 Women
Overview: It is the story of three women in three different places: Turin, Paris and Luxembourg City. Stefania, whose husband has left her for a younger woman, lives alone and types fiction teleplays for a living... until the day she decides to open a new chapter of her life. Elena tries to commit suicide by jumping into the River Seine. She is saved by Bernard, a tramp who, after attempting to reanimate her, takes her to the emergency ward. Later on, they meet again. Stella tries to wake up her drunk companion so that he can become again Diabolique, the fire-eater of a small circus. She more or less manages to but her man is wounded while performing his act and finishes the night in a hospital room.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-09-12
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Iran: Days of Crisis
Overview: Follows the events of Iran hostage crisis of 1979 and people who were held as hostages in the US embassy in Tehran, Iran for over 400 days.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-09-30
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Milena
Overview: Prague, 1920. Milena's father wants her to follow in his footsteps and be one of the first female doctors in Czechoslovakia, but she is determined to be a writer. She elopes to Vienna with the Jewish music critic Ernst Pollak, and starts a correspondence with Franz Kafka. She leaves Pollak and returns to Prague with her father, where she befriends and translates Kafka. As a journalist, Milena covers the 1923 Ruhr worker's strike and meets the communist architect Jaromir.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-07-04
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C'est mon tour
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Genres: Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2009-10-08
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Murder in Lille
Overview: The body of a man is found hanging in an old mine shaft
Genres: Drama Crime TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2017-04-20
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Brigade des mineurs
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Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1999-06-30
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The Last Mercenary
Overview: A legendary secret service agent comes out of hiding and returns to France to help the son he's never met get out of trouble.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2021-07-30
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Legitimate Violence
Overview: In the course of a violent hold-up at Deauville station, several innocent bystanders are shot dead. The victims include a politician, Robert Andréani, and three members of the same family. Devastated by the death of his wife, daughter and mother, Martin Modot resolves that their killers will be brought to justice. When the police fail to make any progress in their investigation, he decides to take matters into his own hands, with the support of a neo-fascist vigilante organization.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1982-09-01
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An Ice Cream With Two scoops ...
Overview: A film about a pair of sisters, whose parents are divorcing after their father leaves their mother for a younger woman, and who plot together to try to repair their fractured family.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1982-03-17
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Sentiments partagés
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Genres: Comedy Family Romance TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2002-03-18
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