Philippe Morier-Genoud
Also Known As: Philippe Morier Genoud
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Philippe Morier-Genoud is a French theatre and film actor. Description above from the Wikipedia article Philippe Morier-Genoud, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Thonon-les-Bains, Haute-Savoie, France
Adult: No
Birthday: March 02, 1944
Age: 81 years old
Gender: Male
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Three Colors: White
Overview: Polish immigrant Karol Karol finds himself out of a marriage, a job and a country when his French wife, Dominique, divorces him after six months due to his impotence. Forced to leave France after losing the business they jointly owned, Karol enlists fellow Polish expatriate Mikołaj to smuggle him back to their homeland.
Genres: Comedy Drama Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1994-01-26
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Au Revoir les Enfants
Overview: Au revoir les enfants tells a heartbreaking story of friendship and devastating loss concerning two boys living in Nazi-occupied France. At a provincial Catholic boarding school, the precocious youths enjoy true camaraderie—until a secret is revealed. Based on events from writer-director Malle’s own childhood, the film is a subtle, precisely observed tale of courage, cowardice, and tragic awakening.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1987-10-07
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Confidentially Yours
Overview: Claude Massoulier is murdered while hunting at the same place as Julien Vercel, an estate agent who knew him and whose fingerprints are found on Massoulier's car. As the police discover that Marie-Christine Vercel, Julien's wife, was Massoulier's mistress, Julien is the prime suspect. But his secretary, Barbara Becker, while not quite convinced he is innocent, defends him and leads her private investigations.
Genres: Comedy Crime Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1983-08-10
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The Sheltering Sky
Overview: An American couple drift toward emptiness in postwar North Africa.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-10-25
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Pardon My French
Overview: Nathalie is being stalked. By an interesting, intelligent young woman called Anaïs, who makes quite an impression on Nathalie, whose real name is Célimène and who happens to be a writer experiencing a crisis.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2009-03-25
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La Grande Peur dans la montagne
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2006-12-09
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Bunker Palace Hotel
Overview: In an imaginary dictature of a futuristic world, rebellion has broken out. The men in power scramble to the Bunker Palace Hotel, a bunker built long ago for just this kind of contingency. But a rebel spy sneaks in, and although her nature is very quickly suspected, she is left to observe the raving of the decadent power class, who keeps wondering what happened to their leader, who has failed to show up.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1989-06-06
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Alerte à Paris!
Overview: Laurence Renoux, chef du service des maladies tropicales et infectieuses dans un hôpital parisien, est inquiète. Depuis quelques jours, elle est confrontée à une épidémie de source inconnue dont les symptômes s'apparentent à une méningite fulgurante, et qu'elle ne parvient pas à endiguer.
Genres: Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2006-02-03
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Safe Conduct
Overview: During the Nazi occupation of France as two filmmakers attempt to navigate their careers without compromising their ideals. Facing pressure from the Vichy government, assistant director Jean Devaivre uses his position at the German-controlled studio Continental Films as a cover for his resistance activities, while screenwriter Jean Aurenche uses his wits to keep from being involved in the creation of any collaborationist propaganda.
Genres: War Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2002-01-09
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Zarafa
Overview: Inspired by the true story of the first giraffe to visit France, Zarafa is a sumptuously animated and stirring adventure, and a throwback to a bygone era of hand-drawn animation and epic storytelling set among sweeping CinemaScope vistas of parched desert, wind-swept mountains and open skies. Under the cover of darkness a small boy, Maki, loosens the shackles that bind him and escapes into the desert night. Pursued by slavers across the moon-lit savannah, Maki meets Zarafa, a baby giraffe – and an orphan, just like him – as well as the nomad Hassan, Prince of the Desert. Hassan takes them to Alexandria for an audience with the Pasha of Egypt, who orders him to deliver the exotic animal as a gift to King Charles of France.
Genres: Family Animation
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2012-01-25
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Buisson ardent
Overview: Jean and Julie meet again ten years after childhood. Jean has trouble recognizing the grown up girl. Julie is "promised" to Henri, a neighbor. Julie, scathing and capricious, provokes Henri and Jean.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1987-05-20
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Le Cœur étincelant
Overview: A young woman is sure that her son is alive
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1995-01-01
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I Can No Longer Hear the Guitar
Overview: For those who were young, living under the delusions of love and soft drugs in Paris, May 1968 - even if the guitar is still playing, they can't hear it any longer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1991-09-11
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Fiesta
Overview: A Jekyll-and-Hyde colonel toughens up a 17-year-old aristocrat for the Spanish Civil War.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1995-11-15
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Asterix: The Mansions of the Gods
Overview: In order to wipe out the Gaulish village by any means necessary, Caesar plans to absorb the villagers into Roman culture by having an estate built next to the village to start a new Roman colony.
Genres: Animation Comedy Adventure Family
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2014-11-26
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Three Colors: Blue
Overview: The wife of a famous composer survives a car accident that kills her husband and daughter. Now alone, she shakes off her old identity and explores her newfound freedom but finds that she is unbreakably bound to other humans, including her husband’s mistress, whose existence she never suspected.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1993-09-08
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The Visitors II: The Corridors of Time
Overview: The sequel to The Visitors reunites us with those lovable ruffians from the French Medieval ages who - through magic - are transported into the present, with often drastic consequences. Godefroy de Montmirail travels to today to recover the missing family jewels and a sacred relic, guarantor of his wife-to-be's fertility. The confrontation between Godefroy's repellent servant Jack the Crack and his descendent, the effete Jacquart, present-day owner of the chateau, further complicates the matter.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1998-02-11
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Radio corbeau
Overview: This fast-paced mystery is in part based on a novel by Yves Ellena and is at least equally based on the 1943 classic Le Corbeau, which in 1951 was produced in English by Otto Preminger as The Thirteenth Letter. In this movie, someone is using a pirate radio broadcast to dish the dirt on the lives of the elite of a small French town.
Genres: Mystery Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1989-02-01
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The Story of a Boy Who Wanted to Be Kissed
Overview: Raoul is a 20 years old student in Paris. Girls are not interested in him, though he is good-looking. He wonders why. Raoul does not look for a great passion, he only wants to be kissed. We will follow his love tribulations.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1994-03-23
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Requiem
Overview: Lucien is sick and at the end of his life. Caroline seems to have chosen to live hers away from her father. The unexpected departure of the assistant nurse, Marthe, forces them to spend time together. Despite each other's pride and bad mood, they realize that behind the hate, there is love.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2021-04-13
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Julie de Carneilhan
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Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1990-02-20
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Time Regained
Overview: In early 1920s France, an author, lying on his deathbed, looks at various photographs and is flooded with memories of the people and events that have shaped his life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1999-05-19
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Léon Blum : Thérèse et Léon
Overview: In 1936, the political and marital tribulations of Léon Blum, elected President of the Council at the head of the Popular Front.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2001-01-20
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L'étrangère
Overview: Sophie left her homeland, the United States, after a secret tragedy. In Paris, she divides her time between an opera house, where she is the dresser for a great Swedish singer, and amateur theater. David, her director, pushes her to her limits: she cannot refuse, so stubbornly, to live and love again. Little by little, Sophie lets herself be disturbed by her speech, and moved by the amorous games and the sensual atmosphere of the opera on which she is working, "Le Chevalier a la rose" by Richard Strauss. After each performance, Sophie sees a silent young man, Valentin. She is convinced that he is coming for the beautiful singer. But one day, he speaks to her, and Sophie finally becomes an actress of her own story.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2007-01-10
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Nina's House
Overview: Starting in 1944 in the wake of the Liberation and continuing into the '60s, 'houses of hope' were established to lend a semblance of continuity to youngsters orpahaned by the war. Nina's Home takes place between September 1944 and January 1946 in an orphanage housed in a chateau outside Paris. At the outset, the country residence is run by Nina who has a core population of French Jewish children whose parents are probably dead. Food is scarce. News of the Concentration Camps hasn't hit yet, but some months later, a contingent of youths arrive form the liberated camps. The children are a disparate, wild, damaged group and conflicts ensue. Nina's challenge is to help them make their first delicate moves toward the future and in the process restore all of them, including herself, to life.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2005-10-12
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Les Naufragés
Overview: A shady businessman ,about to be arrested after ruining his country (and more) ,has to get away from his native France ;he meets a dry cleaner,William ,who's got a private plane and they crash on an island.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2016-02-17
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Green Paradise
Overview: Lucas, a young sociologist, finds in his home village two friends, Isabelle and Simon. Discovering that they almost got married ten years earlier, he sets out to bring them together again. However, Isabelle is in fact falling in love with Lucas. Written by
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2004-02-25
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The Woman Next Door
Overview: Madame Jouve, the narrator, tells the tragedy of Bernard and Mathilde. Bernard was living happily with his wife Arlette and his son Thomas. One day, a couple, Philippe and Mathilde Bauchard, moves into the next house. This is the accidental reunion of Bernard and Mathilde, who had a passionate love affair years ago. The relationship revives... A somber study of human feelings.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1981-09-30
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The Promise
Overview: East-Berlin, 1961, shortly after the erection of the Wall. Konrad, Sophie and three of their friends plan a daring escape to Western Germany. The attempt is successful, except for Konrad, who remains behind. From then on, and for the next 28 years, Konrad and Sophie will attempt to meet again, in spite of the Iron Curtain. Konrad, who has become a reputed Astrophysicist, tries to take advantage of scientific congresses outside Eastern Germany to arrange encounters with Sophie. But in a country where the political police, the Stasi, monitors the moves of all suspicious people (such as Konrad's sister Barbara and her husband Harald), preserving one's privacy, ideals and self-respect becomes an exhausting fight, even as the Eastern block begins its long process of disintegration.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1995-02-16
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Yves Saint Laurent
Overview: A look at the life of French designer Yves Saint Laurent from the beginning of his career in 1958 when he met his lover and business partner, Pierre Berge.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2014-01-08
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Pierre and Marie
Overview: A humoristic view of the lives of Marie and Pierre Curie and their discoveries around radioactivity.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1997-04-09
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The Golden Anniversary
Overview: "Allow me to be your husband." Not only does Alix Saint-Cast, who has Alzheimer's disease, recognize her husband Octave two days before her Golden Wedding, she has also fallen in love again. Their new beloved is Farhad Mozafari, Iranian, also suffering from Alzheimer's disease and can not be separated from Alix. So Farhad has to come with son Iradj and his little daughter to the stately home of the Saint-Casts. However, they are only gradually aware of the unusual family encounters that newcomers have accepted.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2019-09-13
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Asterix: The Secret of the Magic Potion
Overview: Following a fall during mistletoe picking, Druid Getafix decides that it is time to secure the future of the village. Accompanied by Asterix and Obelix, he undertakes to travel the Gallic world in search of a talented young druid to transmit the Secret of the Magic Potion.
Genres: Family Animation Comedy Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2018-05-12
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A Christmas Tale
Overview: When their regal matriarch falls ill, the troubled Vuillard family come together for a hesitant Christmastime reunion. Among them is rebellious ne'er-do-well Henri and the uptight Elizabeth. Together under the same roof for the first time in many years, their intricate, long denied resentments and yearnings emerge again.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2008-05-21
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Joan the Maid II: The Prisons
Overview: Jeanne d'Arc has succeeded in lifting the siege on Orléans and Charles VII has been ordained King of France. However, she is injured in her failed attempt to take Paris, weakening her position at court. When she is finally captured and put on trial, she finds both her life and the sanctity of her body at stake.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1994-02-10
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Cyrano de Bergerac
Overview: Famed swordsman and poet Cyrano de Bergerac is in love with his cousin Roxane. He has never expressed his love for her as he his large nose undermines his self-confidence. Then he finds a way to express his love to her, indirectly.
Genres: Drama Comedy History Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1990-03-28
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Forgery and the Use of Forgeries
Overview: Fleeing fame, the writer Anatole Hirsch decides to publish his new book under the name of his cousin, Martin Bassane. This book wins the Prix Goncourt. A film inspired by the story of Romain Gary.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1990-08-22
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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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Voyager
Overview: Walter Faber has survived a crash with an airplane. His next trip is by ship. On board this ship he meets the enchanting Sabeth and they have a passionate love affair. Together they travel to her home in Greece, but the rational Faber doesn't know what fate has in mind for him for past doings.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1991-03-21
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Mother
Overview: Henri Verneuil was born Achod Malakian of Armenian parentage on October 15, 1920, in Rodosto, Turkey, and his family fled to France and settled in Marseilles when he was a young child. He later recounted his childhood experience in the novel Mayrig, which he dedicated to his mother and made into this 1991 film with the same name.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1991-11-27
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Streamfield, les carnets noirs
Overview: Depiction of "Clearstream affair", a first-class political scandal in France in the run-up to the 2007 presidential election.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2010-07-01
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Monsieur Martin aura quarante ans demain
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1988-01-01
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The Bathroom
Overview: For no apparent reason, "the man" decides he is going to live only in the bathroom of his apartment (clothed). Perhaps he wants the isolation he might find there. His solitude destroyed by a bevy of friends, some housepainters hired by his girlfriend, and his family, our philosophical hero makes his way to a nondescript hotel room in Venice, where he spends his time playing darts in his room. When his girlfriend visits him there, he responds to this interruption of his musings by briefly using her forehead as a dartboard. Eventually he returns to his Paris apartment, and reconciles with his injured girlfriend.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1989-03-08
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Jean Moulin
Overview: The life (and death under torture) of Jean Moulin, head of the French Interior Resistance movements during WWII.
Genres: History Drama TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2002-07-15
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