Cécile de France
Also Known As: Cecile De France, Сесіль де Франс, سسیل دو فرانس
Biography: Cécile de France (born 17 July 1975) is a Belgian actress. After achieving success in French cinema hits such as L'Art (délicat) de la séduction (2001) and Irène (2002), she gained international attention for her lead roles in High Tension (2003) and Hereafter (2010). Description above from the Wikipedia article Cécile de France, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Namur, Belgium
Birthday: July 17, 1975
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Gender: Female
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I, Cesar
Overview: Cesar is a young schoolboy living in Paris with his family. Their life is ordinary, but Cesar wants more excitement (which he creates, in one instance, by claiming to his teachers that his father has been arrested). During the school holidays, Cesar and his friend Sarah decide to help their mutual friend, Morgan, find his father who supposedly lives in London. Each one tells their parents that they're staying with the other two, and together they sneak out to begin their search.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2003-04-09
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The Spanish Apartment
Overview: A strait-laced French student moves into an apartment in Barcelona with a cast of six other characters from all over Europe. Together, they speak the international language of love and friendship.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2002-06-19
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Around the World in 80 Days
Overview: A bet pits a British inventor, a Chinese thief and a French artist on a worldwide adventure that they can circle the globe in 80 days.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-06-16
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High Tension
Overview: Best friends Marie and Alexia decide to spend a quiet weekend at Alexia's parents' secluded farmhouse. But on the night of their arrival, the girls' idyllic getaway turns into an endless night of horror.
Genres: Horror Thriller Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2003-06-18
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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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Russian Dolls
Overview: Five years after their summer together in Barcelona, Xavier, William, Wendy, Martine and Isabelle reunite.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2005-06-15
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Le Voyage délivré
Overview: From the front room of his apartment a young boy is taken on an extraordinary journey by a big-hearted bird.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2023-01-26
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The Singer
Overview: Alain Moreau sings for one of the few remaining dance-bands in Clermont-Ferrand. Though something of an idol amongst his female audience he has a melancholic awareness of the slow disappearance of that audience and of his advancing years. He is completely knocked off balance when he meets strikingly attractive and much younger businesswoman Marion. She seems distant and apparently otherwise involved but soon shows quiet signs of reciprocating his interest.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2006-09-13
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Tu seras mère ma fille
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2020-03-08
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Mesrine: Killer Instinct
Overview: Jacques Mesrine, a loyal son and dedicated soldier, is back home and living with his parents after serving in the Algerian War. Soon he is seduced by the neon glamour of sixties Paris and the easy money it presents. Mentored by Guido, Mesrine turns his back on middle class law-abiding and soon moves swiftly up the criminal ladder.
Genres: Drama Action Thriller Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2008-10-22
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Confidence Reigns
Overview: Christel and Christoph have no education, no morals - they are working as servants in wealthy homes in order to clean out their hosts. Having decided to combine their talents and efforts, they are starting to work in the the house of Therions - wealthy bourgeoisie of Mulhouse...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2004-11-10
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A Secret
Overview: In 1953, a sensitive French boy finds out from a neighbor that his family's Jewish. François Grimbert becomes a physician, and gradually peels the layers of his buried family history which resulted in his difficult upbringing, raised as Catholic by his "Aryan" appearing parents. His athletic father labored to stamp out stereotypical Jewish characteristics he perceived in his son, to keep the family's many secrets, as most relatives fought in World War II, and later were hauled off to labor and death camps by the Gestapo.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2007-10-03
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Off Limits
Overview: During a patrol, Julie and Simon, two police constables, injure a wealthy man who pointlessly killed their partner. This wealthy man in question turns out to be the son of a politician. This is why the two police constables are accused of brutality by the brass. Abandoned by their superiors, the two leading characters will lead an investigation on the drug that caused the politician's son to be out of his mind.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2010-04-07
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Hereafter
Overview: Three people — a blue-collar American, a French journalist and a London school boy — are touched by death in different ways.
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-10-22
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A+ Pollux
Overview: Halvard Sanz believes in the principle according to which we always meet people who really interest us twice. It’s written in the tables of how the world works, right next to the law of series and the constant speed of light. Halvard therefore believes that he’ll be able to find Pollux again. She’s the woman of his dreams, but he didn’t get the time to tell her so. Dizzy as a bee, he’ll charge head first into the plate glass window of life.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2002-07-03
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The Kid with a Bike
Overview: Abandoned by his father, a young boy is left in the hands of an unqualified childcare provider.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2011-05-18
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Irène
Overview: Irène is a beautiful girl working in Paris, she soon meets a manager and hopes a love story with him. But he tells a lie, so she falls in love with a house painter.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2002-06-26
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Bad Faith
Overview: In Paris, Clara, psycho motor therapist, and Ismaël, music teacher, have been lovers for four years. Happy, the couple are expecting their first child and decide to move in together. But the news is not well received by their respective families because Clara is Jewish and Ishmael a Muslim. Although not practicing, this difference will gradually sow trouble in their love life.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2006-12-06
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Sister Smile
Overview: A biography of the Belgian nun Jeannine Deckers, who became a popular singer in the early 1960s and struggled with the contradiction between the church and her true self.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2009-04-29
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Wild Seas
Overview: A couple of fisher-folk are joined by a young new apprentice in the middle of a raging storm.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2022-12-14
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Snow White: The Sequel
Overview: Prince Charming was supposed to live long and happily with Snow White after kissing her back to life. However the jealous 'good' fairy decides that she and the prince were meant to be, only the start of a whole series of perversions of various fairy tale characters' traditional good nature.
Genres: Animation Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2007-01-31
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Rewild, la nature reprend ses droits
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2022-02-07
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The Colonel
Overview: A "Reformed Colonel" is found dead in Paris, a couple of decades after Algeria's struggle for independence was won from France. Lieutenant Galois is assigned the investigation of this murder. She receives the diary of Lieutenent Guy Rossi who served under The Colonel in Algeria in 1956, and has been reported as missing in action since 1957. The revelations found in Rossi's diary go far beyond The Colonel's actions in Algeria, and give an insight on how dirty Algeria's War for Independence really was.
Genres: Crime Drama History War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2006-11-15
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A Butterfly Kiss
Overview: Billie and Louis have the good fortune of loving each other passionately and of having a family. But then one day terrible news turns their existence and that of their friends' upside down. Marie, a famous actress who is Billie's friend and confidant, redoubles her determination to give life, while Alice, her nurse, fighting for freedom, maintains that life 'is here and now and in the moment.' A film about love, hope, and the conviction that the force of life, despite the toughest tests, will always gain the upper hand.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2011-06-01
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L'Art (délicat) de la séduction
Overview: The film follows Etienne, a 40-year-old car designer, who takes time off from work to study sexual mastery from a Zen master and several prostitutes, in the hopes of having the sexual skill to impress Laure. Laure, a blonde who was introduced to him by his friend Jacques, told Etienne on January 1 that she will not have sex with him until May 27 that year at precisely 9 PM.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2001-03-21
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Gone for a Dance
Overview: After seeing 'Singin' in the Rain', a man decides to give up his peaceful life of happiness to pursue his new dream of tap dancing.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2007-08-29
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Hand of the Headless Man
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Genres: Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2007-12-14
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Nadia Coupeau, dite Nana
Overview: Victim of a rape, Nadia Coupeau decides to keep the child despite her precarious personal situation. But her child is soon taken away from her and placed in public care. Desperate, but ready to do anything to get him back, she decides to join her friend Zoé in the capital... In this version freely inspired by Emile Zola's work, Nana's trajectory is a cross-section of contemporary society, from the jungle of the suburbs to the golden world of business.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2001-03-02
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Superstar
Overview: An average guy who works in a recycling plant wakes up one morning to discover that he's become inexplicably famous.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2012-08-29
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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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Chinese Puzzle
Overview: Xavier is a 40-year-old father of two who still finds life very complicated. When the mother of his children moves to New York, he can't bear them growing up far away from him and so he decides to move there as well.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2013-12-04
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Möbius
Overview: An FSB officer falls in love with his agent, an American woman who works as a trader in a Russian bank.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2013-02-17
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Kaena: The Prophecy
Overview: Compelled by a mysterious force, Kaena, a rebellious, high-spirited teenage girl will defy the High Priest and her people's ancestral beliefs to take the perilous journey through the Axis and discover what dark secrets lie beyond the clouds.
Genres: Animation Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2003-06-04
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Call of Water
Overview: Sarah, in her forties, is on the verge of exhaustion. Her children, ages 9 and 5, take up all her time and her husband is constantly on business trips. After disappearing on the beach for a few minutes, Simon becomes strange. He spends hours in his bathroom and seeks contact with water at the slightest opportunity. Sarah's life will change when her son confesses the truth...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2024-10-14
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Making of 'La confiance règne'
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2005-01-01
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Summertime
Overview: In 1971, a young woman moves from the French countryside to Paris and begins a passionate love affair with a feminist leader.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2015-08-19
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Regarde-moi (en face)
Overview: Antoine lives with his father Gaston. The latter is a voyeur and keeps his son at home through emotional blackmail. Gaston is forced to make a financial agreement with the neighbor across the street, Goran, in order to be able to continue watching Dune, his girlfriend. Antoine meets her and runs away with her.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2003-07-23
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Toutes les nuits
Overview: La Première éducation sentimentale (the first version of L'Éducation sentimentale), re-adapting the themes of first love, the intoxication of desire, and failed ideological revolution (that culminated in the Revolution of 1848) to the May 68 generation through a chronicle of the parallel lives of a pair of childhood friends, the pragmatic Henri and idealistic Jules as they leave their bucolic, rural hometown to separately pursue their baccalaureate - and real world - educations.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2001-03-28
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Bonnard, Pierre and Marthe
Overview: When French painter Pierre Bonnard met Marthe de Méligny, he didn’t know this self-proclaimed aristocrat would become the cornerstone of his life and work. From this moment, she became more than just a muse for the “painter of happiness”, appearing in more than a third of his work. Together, they reached their artistic fulfillment thanks to a colourful love, different from the standards of their time, nurturing the great mystery around their relationship. Based on a true story.
Genres: History Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2024-01-10
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Le peuple miniature
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Original Language: fr
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Une fille sans histoire
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
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Des baleines, des tortues et des hommes
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2024-01-22
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Colours Of Time
Overview: Brought together by the unexpected inheritance of an abandoned house in rural Normandy, four cousins discover they share a mysterious family history. In 1895, their ancestor Adèle, then aged 21, leaves her hometown to search for her mother in Paris. She discovers a city on the cusp of modernity, bustling with new-found avant-garde creativity, with the rise of photography and the birth of Impressionist painting. As her descendants retrace her steps, they unravel Adèle's surprising past. The two timelines of 1895 and 2024 intertwine and collide, confronting the cousins’ contemporary attitudes with life in late 19th century Paris, leaving everyone’s future forever changed.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
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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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Le Temps des cerises
Overview: Le Temps des cerises is a sentimental comedy, full of charm, on the life of two beings whom everything opposes, but which chance brings together. He is a painter and out of inspiration. She is young, pretty, full of life, not very sure of herself. They have nothing in common except their humor, their charm, their need to create and their passion for painting. They will live a few days together and both will emerge transformed from this parenthesis.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2008-01-29
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Fanny's Journey
Overview: Fanny is a Jewish girl in a French orphanage in 1943. When she and her friends are no longer safe from the Nazis, they try to flee to Switzerland. After their guide disappears, Fanny has to take the lead and help the other kids make it over the mountains.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2016-05-18
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Demain, je tombe amoureux
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
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La Poupée
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Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
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The Residence
Overview: In the near future, Clarissa, a novelist with writer’s block, joins a prestigious, state-of-the-art artist residency where she’s assigned an AI assistant named Dalloway. The latter quickly becomes more than a simple assistant and turns into a true confidante for Clarissa. Unsettled by Dalloway’s increasing intrusion, Clarissa is warned by whistleblower Mathias, who informs her of the true motives behind the residency and its tech company funder. Clarissa begins to suspect that this seemingly perfect situation is in fact a meticulously crafted trap.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2025-09-17
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Just to Be Sure
Overview: Erwan, a strapping Breton who clears mines for a living, is shaken when he discovers that his father is not his father. Despite his affection for the man who raised him, he quietly sets out to find his biological father, and succeeds in locating Joseph, an endearing old codger he takes a liking to. Just when things look settled, another unexpected “bomb” hits Erwan in the form of Anna, an elusive nymph.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2017-09-06
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Django
Overview: The story of Django Reinhardt, famous guitarist and composer, and his flight from German-occupied Paris in 1943.
Genres: Drama History Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2017-04-26
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Animals in Love
Overview: Translated literally as "Animals in Love," the French-language documentary Animaux Amoreux depicts various species of the animal kingdom in courting, mating and reproduction activities. Laurent Charbonnier directs.
Genres: Documentary Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2007-12-19
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The Necklace
Overview: Mathilde and her husband, who works in a minister's office, are not rich. Mathilde, however, loves beautiful clothes and her husband loves her too much that he lets her do anything she wants. One day they receive an invitation for an important party and she wants to look her best. She borrows a beautiful diamond necklace from her rich friend, but then the necklace gets lost.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2007-03-06
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Lady J
Overview: When a romance between a widow and a notorious libertine takes an unexpected turn, Mademoiselle de Joncquières becomes instrumental to one lover’s plans for revenge.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2018-09-12
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Rebels
Overview: Sandra, a young woman forced to leave the south of France to flee a violent husband. Without attachment, she returned to Boulogne-sur-Mer, the city of her childhood which she left almost 15 years ago. She finds her mother there and a world she left behind. Without money, she is hired in a fish cannery where she befriends two workers. But one day, one of her colleagues tackles her insistently, she defends herself and kills him accidentally.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2019-01-17
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A Bigger World
Overview: In an attempt to move on from the death of Paul, the love of her life, Korine leaves Paris to undertake a project in Mongolia. But after meeting the shaman, Oyun, her trip takes a different direction. Korine has a rare gift that Oyun intends to unveil. She agrees to initiate herself in the practice of Shamanism, leading her to discover an ancient and forgotten culture, but most importantly herself.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2019-10-30
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The French Dispatch
Overview: The staff of an American magazine based in France puts out its last issue, with stories featuring an artist sentenced to life imprisonment, student riots, and a kidnapping resolved by a chef.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-10-21
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Peaceful
Overview: A son in denial of a serious illness. A mother facing the unbearable. And between them a doctor fighting to do his job and bring them to acceptance. The three of them have one year and four seasons to come together and understand what it means to die while living.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2021-07-16
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Lost Illusions
Overview: Lucien de Rubempré, a young, lower-class poet, leaves his family's printing house for Paris. Soon, he learns the dark side of the arts business as he tries to stay true to his dreams.
Genres: Drama Romance History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2021-10-20
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Wild Tales From The Village
Overview: A year in the life of an extraordinary village hidden away in the French countryside.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-12-23
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Quand baleines et tortues nous montrent le chemin
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2020-05-08
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The Young Lovers
Overview: Elegant, retired architect Shauna (70) crosses paths with Pierre, a happily married doctor in his 40s, who first made an impression on her in a brief meeting 15 years previously. Both are quite troubled to meet again and begin an affair. While Pierre’s family life is soon turned upside down, Shauna struggles with feelings she thought belonged to the past.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2022-02-02
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