Bernard Giraudeau
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Biography: Bernard Giraudeau (18 June 1947 – 17 July 2010) was a French actor, film director, scriptwriter, producer and writer. Description above from the Wikipedia article Bernard Giraudeau, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: La Rochelle, Charente-Maritime, France
Birthday: June 18, 1947
Deathday: July 17, 2010
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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The Party
Overview: A thirteen-year-old French girl deals with moving to a new city and school in Paris, while at the same time her parents are getting a divorce.
Genres: Drama Romance Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1980-12-17
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Croque la vie
Overview: Friendships and business do not mix, that's what we find with Theresa, Catherine and Alain, three longtime friends. Freshly graduated, they decided to start their own business, but work is scarce and a fight breaks out between the trio. Separated, married and scattered all over France, the once inseparable trio no longer keep in touch. But four years later, they decided to organize a big party for their reunion which serves as an opportunity for them to put things right and confess everything they have in their hearts.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1981-11-18
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Two Men in Town
Overview: A former bank robber is released after 10 years in prison. He gets help from a social-worker, but gets harassed by an old cop from his past.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1973-10-24
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Revolver
Overview: An Italian prison official's wife is kidnapped, and the kidnappers demand that a notorious prisoner be released in order for the man to get his wife back. He gets the man released - but then kidnaps him himself, in order to ensure that the man's colleagues don't kill his wife. Enraged, the gang sets out to free their compatriot and kill the man who took him.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-09-27
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Marquise
Overview: Marquise is a drama about the rise and fall of a beauteous actress. As cheerfully portrayed by Sophie Marceau, the eponymous heroine is an engagingly ribald, but perhaps rather too modern, character. She rises from an impoverished background to become a favourite of the Sun King, Louis XIV, and the mistress of the celebrated Racine, who wrote roles especially for her; but her fate, in the end, is a tragic one.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1997-08-20
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Une fille dans l'azur
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Genres: TV Movie Action War Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2001-01-08
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Chok Dee: The Kickboxer
Overview: Dida Diafat plays himself in this story based around his thai boxing career.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2005-02-16
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The Specialists
Overview: While being transferred to another prison, two convicts - Stéphane Carella and Paul Brandon - effect a miraculous escape. They are pursued across the Verdon Gorge before arriving at an isolated farmhouse whose owner, Laura, offers them sanctuary. Since the death of her husband, Laura has longed to get her own back on the police and she agrees to help Carella and Brandon in their scheme to rob a casino in Nice. After a shoot out with the casino’s owners, Carella realises that not everything is what it seems. Brandon is not what he appears...
Genres: Adventure Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1985-03-13
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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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Water Drops on Burning Rocks
Overview: In 1970s Germany, Léopold, a 50-year-old businessman, picks up and seduces 20-year-old Franz, who swiftly moves into his apartment. The dynamic between them intensifies with the sudden arrival of their ex-girlfriends.
Genres: Drama Romance Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2000-03-15
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Ridicule
Overview: To get royal backing on a needed drainage project, a poor French lord must learn to play the delicate games of wit at court at Versailles.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1996-05-09
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The Big Pardon
Overview: The Bettoun clan: Raymond (the patriarch), Maurice (the son), Jacky (the nephew), Roland (the nephew), Albert (Raymond's cousin), Pépé (Raymond's friend), Samy (the bodyguard) are a family clan of Jewish Blackfoot kingpins of French organized crime. Their activities include running casinos, organizing underground boxing matches, illegal gambling, pimping, racketeering and bloody settlements of scores against other Arab and French clans. But in the shadows, Pascal Villars has sworn the loss of the Bettoun. He will succeed in setting the Arab clan against the Jewish clan, for the great benefit of the police commissioner Duché, who has been trying in vain for ten years to bring down the Bettouns.
Genres: Crime Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1982-01-27
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The Hook
Overview: A writer of novels in need of an editor accepts the contract offered to him by a famous writer: to eliminate his ex-wife against a large sum of money.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2004-08-11
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La Face de l'Ogre
Overview: Several mountaineers attempt to climb La face de l'Ogre near Chamonix. Their starting point is a small mountain hotel from where many tourists observe them. Among these is Hélène, who has been staying there for a few weeks but who is excluded by the other tourists. Then she meets a city girl named Marion and they immediately become friends. She tells him that she is waiting for her husband who has tried to climb the mountain and should be back any day. But then the weather turns sour, which causes hope to wane but also brings women together in anxiety. Finally the weather improves and Marion's husband comes back but not Hélène's and she must finally accept the truth.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1988-11-16
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Hecate
Overview: Set amid the European community in an unspecified North African country, a colony on the verge of nationalism just before the war. And colonized is what happens to a French diplomat, Julien Rochelle, when he meets the mysterious beauty Clothilde de Watteville. Schmid 's favorite axiom, that love is projection, never had such a thorough airing. Is Clothilde really the wife of a French official now holed up in Siberia? Or is she Hecate, goddess of black magic and devourer of the Arab boys she meets far from the European quarter? Only our projections know for sure; for the rest, she is a "woman looking out into the night." Drawn from a novel by Paul Morand, who based the main character on his wife Helene, Schmid's film achieves an atmosphere of magic in which psychological credibility is not so much absent as irrelevant-a film that distances itself from the drama it invokes, perhaps as the elusive Clothilde turns her back on the madness she provokes.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1982-10-22
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Killing Time
Overview: A tired and alcoholic police investigator has lost his wife to a hotel owner, and former pimp, but befriends a young woman which isn't at all who she claims to be.
Genres: Crime Action Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1987-03-18
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The Veiled Man
Overview: Claire (Laure Marsac) is a 16-year-old young woman who discovers her father Pierre (Bernard Giraudeau) is not a healing physician but a killer with a bloody war record in the Lebanese conflict. She runs away from home and into the arms of Kamal (Michal Albertini). While Pierre stalks two terrorists, Claire and Kamal are violently confronted by Kamal's abandoned wife and family. The ravages of the conflict extend to those who are never participants in the battle but are among the casualties of war.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1987-09-16
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Le fils préféré
Overview: Jean-Paul Mantegna, the son of Italian immigrants now living in Nice, is a hunted man, riddled with debt and involved in borderline illegal companies. To extricate himself, he has to rely on Philippe and François, his two brothers, and on Raphaël, his father; a family torn by disputes and tragic events. However, by rebuilding family unity, Jean-Paul also discovers the secret of his own destiny...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1994-12-21
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Drôles d'oiseaux
Overview: The fire at the supermarket is a boon for a scrap dealer who has just killed his wife. According to Commissioner Voitot, the victim could be one of the unidentified bodies. But here is a landscaper claims that his wife has also disappeared.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1993-03-10
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Gramps Is in the Resistance
Overview: It is 1943 in Paris. Like so many others, the Bourbelle family's home has been taken over by the Germans and they now live in their cellar. Little do they know that the son, Guy-Hubert Bourdelle, is far from being the cowardly hairdresser he pretends. He is in truth the Germans’ most feared opponent: le super-résistant!
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1983-10-26
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That Day
Overview: A father is scheming to have his slightly mental daughter from an earlier marriage killed by allowing a murderous psychopath to be released from the asylum and led to his house. However, the psychopath and the daughter fall for each other.
Genres: Mystery Drama Comedy Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2003-06-04
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Come to My Place, I Live at a Girlfriend's
Overview: Guy is fired from is job, and asks to stay with his friend and his girlfriend in their apartment. The longer he stays, the more disaster he creates.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1981-01-25
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The Medic
Overview: The film is set in a modern war, probably between a European country and a country in the Far East. Behind the battle lines, in a medical unit, a surgeon falls in love with an idealistic nurse after an initially difficult meeting.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1979-10-26
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Bilitis
Overview: A coming of age story centering on the exploits of a young girl during summer vacation.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1977-03-16
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Little Lili
Overview: This film, loosely inspired by Anton Chekov's The Seagull, weaves a story about sex, family and the business of making films. When the young and overly sensitive filmmaker Julien screens his new DV art-film starring his girlfriend Lili (Swimming Pool's Ludivine Sagnier) --a sexy young local girl--to his famous actress mother Mado, and her lover Brice, an accomplished film director, an unraveling of the delicate peace in their house begins. The graceful beauty Lili, who dreams of becoming a famous actress like Mado, is immediately fascinated by Brice, who gladly falls prey to her charms.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2003-08-27
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The Ruffian
Overview: The adventures of a group of friends who plan to recover crates full of gold from a fall in Canada.
Genres: Drama Adventure Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1983-01-12
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Vent de panique
Overview: Roland and Martine, once child stars in a TV series, have sunk into a life of crime. Answering an ad from Isabelle, a young girl seeking work with children, they abduct her with the intention of selling her into prostitution. At the last moment, having become fond of her, they relent and set out to take her home. She rebels, insisting that she enjoys their exciting life of stolen cars, stolen cheques, hotels and restaurants left without paying the bill, and the threesome become a formidable team. Then Isabelle's mood changes again and she disappears with a hitch-hiker. Worried over her future, Roland and Martine trace her to the town where she is about to get married and abduct her, this time from the church steps. Roaring off in a stolen ambulance, the three are happily on the run again.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1987-12-02
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A Matter of Taste
Overview: Nicolas, a handsome, young waiter, is befriended by Frédéric Delamont, a wealthy middle-aged businessman. Delamont, a man of power, influence and strictly refined tastes, is immediately smitten by Nicolas' charm. Lonely and phobic, Delamont offers Nicolas a lucrative job as his personal food taster. In spite of their differences, a close friendship begins to emerge between the two men. However, their bond of trust and admiration soon spirals downward into a dangerous game of deceit and obsession for which neither is prepared.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2000-04-26
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The Wings of the Fame
Overview: It is the epic of the heroes of the first century of aviation, since the flight of the first plane on December 17, 1903 until today. A striking collection of portraits of outstanding men and women like Louis Blériot, the first to cross the Channel, to Lindbergh who crossed the Atlantic and Amelia Earhart and many more...
Genres: Documentary History TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2003-12-08
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Judge Fayard Called the Sheriff
Overview: Jean-Marie Fayard is a young examining magistrate in a large provincial french city. He belongs to that generation of judges who are endeavoring to re-adapt the notion of justice to our changing times. His methods are not agreeable to every one. Criticism and pressure are brought to bear upon him but he is aware of his value, professionally, and refuses to make any concessions. He follows an unwavering course. He uses dynamic methods and takes uncustomary initiatives. He behaves like a crusader, a battler, whence the nickname given him by the reporters : the sheriff.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1977-01-12
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Street of the Damned
Overview: In a desolate Paris suburb, no one dares challenge crime boss Hagen, who rules his turf with an iron fist. That includes his former friend Chet, who vows to keep to himself in order to protect his loved ones. But Hagen keeps pushing his buttons… and Chet can only stand for so much before he explodes.
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1984-01-04
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Lost Seamen
Overview: Based on a novel by Jean-Claude Izzo, this melancholic movie focuses on three sailors being the last remaining crew members on their ship which is aground in the harbor of Marseille. After the owner has sold the "Aldébaran", only the Lebanese captain Aziz, the Greek Diamantis and the Turk Nelim are stuck on the boat for a lack of prospects. Aziz doesn't want to return to his wife, Diamantis tries to find a girl he left at the age of 20 and Nelim, young and foolish, just wants to have fun...
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2003-11-12
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The Gypsy
Overview: Two thieves, Hugo Sennart and Yan Kuq, wanted by the same police inspector, cross paths by chance.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1975-12-05
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Dans la tête du tueur
Overview: Jean-Francois Abgrall, today the head of a private detective agency, was just a simple provincial gendarme back in 1989 when he was assigned to investigate a murder on a beach. Instead, his investigation put him on the trial of one of France's most terrifying serial killers, Francis Heaulme, who for eight years wandered the country committing some of the most brutal murders in the annals of modern crime. This is the true story of that manhunt, a tale of terror, suspense and determination.
Genres: Crime TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2004-11-14
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Marianna Ucrìa
Overview: In 18th-century Sicily, deaf-mute highborn Marianna Ucrìa is forced to marry at age 13, bearing three children before even turning 16, when she finally gives birth to a boy. Despite everything, she'll find a way to emancipate herself from the oppressive social conventions of the time.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1997-08-13
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Et la tendresse ?… Bordel !
Overview: Francois, seducer very misogynist, directs an Eros Club, that from which suffers his Carole wife silently. Julie, saleswoman in a clock industry, as for it is taken of an access of madness after having surprised her husband, Léo, future
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1979-02-28
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The White Queen
Overview: In 1960, in a coastal town near to Nantes, Jean Ripoche lives with his wife Liliane, their four children and Liliane’s father Lucien. Jean divides his time between running his plumbing business and making a float for the Nantes carnival. The Ripoche’s ordered lives are thrown into turmoil when Jean’s former friend, Yvon Legualoudec, returns to the town – with his black wife Annabelle and their three children. Before he disappeared twenty years ago, without saying a word, Yvon was Jean’s rival for Liliane’s affections. As bitter memories resurface, the relationship between Jean, Yvon and Liliane become strained.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1991-05-08
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Jamais plus toujours
Overview: Claire (Bulle Ogier) returns to France following the death of her actress friend Agathe (Loleh Bellon). She attends an auction of her friend's possessions, provoking memories of the past. As her camera glides across the auction house bric-a-brac, Yanick Bellon mixes past, present and future to create a delicate piece of cinematic poetry. Set to the music of Georges Delerue.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1976-03-10
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Just a Game
Overview: Emile Michel, Lapland, orphan, is obliged to bring back within the tribe the ancestral totem: a gold plumb line "borrowed" formerly by his grandfather Raymond Michel. His quest will take him aboard a floating boat that crosses Baffin Bay in the icy waters of Greenland.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1992-04-22
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L'empire du tigre
Overview: In the summer of 1938, in the heart of Indochina, a French colony, Pierre Balsan hear the latest news about conquering Czechoslovakia after Hitler invaded Austria. World War II will bring even more problems for Pierre Balsan, nicknamed Tiger, who will be charged with the murder of his wife.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-10-08
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Love After Love
Overview: Lola is an independent woman, a professional writer with 2 men on a string. Both men are married with children. When the men, and Lola, face having to make choices, Lola's comfortable life becomes less appealing.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1992-04-15
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Si je t'oublie Sarajevo
Overview: In 1993, Sophie, a young French diplomat, disembarked from the military plane that brought her to Sarajevo. She is taken in charge by an officer of the blue helmets: the commander Michel Mercier. The day after her arrival, as she exited a school, a sniper shot children in front of the peacekeepers, who had orders not to shoot back. The wounded children were taken to hospital. Sophie devises a plan to evacuate the children, who are in constant danger of death, to France...
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1997-01-24
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Les longs manteaux
Overview: A reporter becomes involved with a band of terrorists hiding in the mountains between Peru and Bolivia.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1986-02-19
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Passion of Love
Overview: In the 1860's, Giorgio (Giraudeau), a young Italian soldier is sent to a remote post, far away from his lover, Clara (Antonelli). He is lodged in the house of the colonel (Girotti). He becames friends with the colonel and the local doctor (Trintignant). Among the inhabitants of the house, there is a strange young woman - Fosca (d'Obici) who is both unattractive and mad. However, she has a passion that Giorgio will have to cope with.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1981-09-16
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Unpredictable Nature of the River
Overview: Nobleman Jean-Francois de la Plaine is exiled to serve as governor of a West African colony.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1996-01-01
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TGV
Overview: The TGV? No, it is not the famous French high-speed train, but instead the rickety and colourful bus operated, driven, repaired and, if need be, pushed by the intrepid "Rambo". This time, the trip between Dakar, the capital of Senegal, and Conakry, the capital of Guinea, is outright dangerous: the road crosses the territory of the Bijagos, who have launched an unexpected and violent insurrection. Rambo finds several odd passengers (with a handful of sheep) who are ready, for various legitimate or untold reasons, to take every risk to reach Conakry. And the TGV sets off on an eventful journey...
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1998-01-02
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Stop Calling Me Baby!
Overview: A man hires a P.I. to find a sexy woman he fell in love with. The woman lives with her underage teen sister who dreams about having sex for the first time, but wants a real man. That's when the P.I. shows up and stirs up the household.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1977-10-26
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Kursk: A Submarine in Troubled Waters
Overview: A remarkable documentary that delves deep into the mysterious and murky circumstances surrounding the Kursk submarine sinking.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
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Among Wolves
Overview: An American general with highly confidential defence information has been kidnapped by terrorists and is being held in a cliff-top fortress in the Mediterranean.
Genres: Action Crime Drama War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1985-12-31
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La Grande Cordée
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1997-01-01
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Marthe
Overview: This Great War drama opens in the trenches during an artillery bombardment. Receiving bayonet wounds, young Simon (Guillaume Depardieu) drops out of the action, joining other injured soldiers at a Brittany hospital. One day he meets schoolteacher Marthe (Clotilde Courau), who lives in the household of the hospital's head doctor (Bernard Giraudeau). Soon a romance begins to develop. Cinematography by Kevin Jewison, son of director Norman Jewison.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1997-10-28
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Leclerc, un rêve d'Indochine
Overview: In Hanoi, a French couple who had come to adopt a baby met Maï, an old woman who had a love affair with a French officer in 1945. She tells how, sent by de Gaulle to restore order, Leclerc negotiates with Ho Chi Minh, against the advice of d'Argenlieu, the high commissioner.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2003-07-14
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Paragot-Bérardini, La Cordée des Voyous
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1997-01-01
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Meurtres A Domicile
Overview: A murder is committed in the building where Aurélia Maudru, inspector of the judicial police in charge of the investigation, lives.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1982-10-13
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A New Life
Overview: In a shock after her mother’s sudden death, warehouse forklift driver Tina seeks out the rich, enigmatic businessman father she has never known and discovers a half-sister, Lise.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1993-10-13
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Beyond the Summits
Overview: Catherine Destivelle is an ambassador for the French Alps and is well known in France and abroad. In Beyond the Summits, viewers will feel like they are climbing up the mountain with her. The film shows three classic Chamonix routes with three different climbing partners. Each partner was chosen because they had a profound impact on her life. The camera captures the magnificent scenery, as well as frank and intimate moments during the ascents ...
Genres: Adventure Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2009-05-20
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Le double de ma moitié
Overview: With the help of a hidden twin sister, a couturier tries to take revenge on his wife who cheats on him with his partner.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1999-05-12
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Saint-Exupéry: La dernière mission
Overview: Life and times of Antoine de Saint-Exupery, famous French pilot and even more famous writer who disappeared on a routine reconnaissance flight during WW2.
Genres: Drama History TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1996-07-10
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Earth from Above
Overview: Yann Arthus-Bertrand has flown over hundreds of countries to create an extraordinary aerial portrait of our planet as never seen before. This DVD from the Panoramica Motion Gallery is 'Ambient' in concept, there is no storytelling, no narratives, just a constant stream of compelling beauty.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2004-09-22
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Mag Bodard, un destin
Overview: Mag Bodard, un destin is an archive documentary filmed for television by Anne Wiazemsky in 2005.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2005-10-01
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La répétition ou L'amour puni
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1986-03-19
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Bras de fer
Overview: Complex and more cerebral than a wartime action-thriller, this espionage drama focuses on the relationship of two former buddies who were fencing masters before the war and in love with the same woman. Now Delancourt (Bernard Giraudeau) is apparently living a good life managing a gym in a Paris hotel under Nazi control, where he meets his former friend Pierre (Christophe Malavoy), who is on a secret assignment to mislead the Nazis on the date of the Normandie invasion. Pierre, alias Augustin, cannot figure out if Delancourt is a real resistance fighter or if he is a double agent. Circumstances create a larger and larger gap between the former friends while the plot goes through several twists and turns before Pierre's doubts are resolved.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1985-09-18
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Mata Hari, la vraie histoire
Overview: The Dutch exotic dancer Mata Hari is accused of spying for Germany during the First World War.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2003-11-08
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Quand l'Algérie était française (1830 - 1962)
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2006-07-05
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