Firmine Richard
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Biography: Firmine Richard (born 25 September 1947 Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe, France) is a French actress. Her film credits include 8 Women and Hunting and Gathering. In February 2009, Richard took part in demonstrations in Paris in support of the 2009 French Caribbean general strikes in Guadeloupe and Martinique. Source: Article "Firmine Richard" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe, France
Birthday: September 25, 1947
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Gender: Female
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Une journée de merde !
Overview: This is an important day for Marc Chanois, an insurance advisor heading toward middle age: it's his fiancée Sabine's birthday, her parents arrive in Paris and Marc will meet them for dinner to announce the engagement (her father can't stand him), he's bought Sabine a Spitfire, and his most important client is to sign a policy. But, as the day wears on, he's vexed by an incompetent secretary, the unexpected return of a girlfriend he hasn't seen in five years, squatters who use his office at night, the jealous former lover of a flight attendant who lives in the building, and his boss's unexpected return from a Swiss clinic. Will he reach Sabine in one piece?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1999-03-03
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8 Women
Overview: Eight women gather to celebrate Christmas in a snowbound cottage, only to find the family patriarch dead with a knife in his back. Trapped in the house, every woman becomes a suspect, each having her own motive and secret.
Genres: Comedy Thriller Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2002-02-06
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Hunting & Gathering
Overview: When Camille falls ill, she is forced to live with Philibert and Franck.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2007-03-21
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Oldies But Goodies
Overview: As the Lino Vartan shelter, which takes orphans and seniors in, has to shut down for health issues, Milann has no choice but to accept the invitation of a retirement home in the south of France.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2024-02-14
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Simon le juste
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2003-01-29
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Mama, There's a Man in your Bed
Overview: A company president gets framed with a food-poisoning scandal and the only person who can help him is the evening cleaning-woman, who always seems to be at the right place at the right time.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1989-03-22
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The First Star
Overview: A married father of three, lives in Créteil doing odd jobs and spends his time at the local PMU bar. One day, to please his daughter, he promises a little too quick to take the whole family on vacation to ski. The only problem: if he breaks his promise, his wife will divorce him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2009-03-25
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I Love You Very Much
Overview: When the mother they have never known dies, three half brothers aged 8, 15 and 17 respectively, who were all brought up in different ways, meet for the very first time. They spend the long summer holidays with Nonna, their grandmother, and start sharing secrets and rabbits, polenta and mean tricks, adventures and first time experiences, together. At last their once solitary lives take a new direction.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2010-11-10
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Un monde sans rap
Overview: Philippe is principal in a high school outside Paris. A keen jazz lover, he does his best to share his passion with students. Yet this generation is more into rap than jazz, so much so that a frustrated Philippe wishes that rap would disappear. When this absurd wish comes true, Philippe starts living in a world with no rap...
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2022-01-19
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Elisa
Overview: Marie has had a tough childhood ever since her mother Elisa committed suicide. She has spent most of her life in an orphanage and now makes a living as a small time criminal in Paris. Now she wants to unravel her past and find her father whom she blames for her mother's death.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1995-02-01
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A Happy Event
Overview: She drove me into a corner, then forced me to go beyond my limits. She made me confront the absolute: love, sacrifice, tenderness, abandonment. She dislocated me, transformed me. Why didn't anyone warn me? Why doesn't anyone ever talk about this?" Un heureux événement, or an intimate view of motherhood, sincere and with no taboos.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2011-09-27
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Les Tribulations d'une caissière
Overview: La vie n’est pas rose tous les jours pour Solweig, caissière dans un supermarché. Mais elle garde le sourire, malgré les remarques souvent déplaisantes des clients et un chef teigneux. Peut-être grâce au blog qu’elle tient en secret, où elle s’épanche avec humour sur son quotidien difficile… Un soir, sous la neige, son destin croise celui de Charles. Le jeune homme tombe aussitôt amoureux d’elle, sans se douter qu’ils ne sont pas du même monde. Mais si un simple blog peut changer le sort de milliers de caissières, n’est-il pas permis de croire aux contes de fées ?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-12-14
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Bowling
Overview: The story takes place in Carhaix, in the heart of Brittany. A small hospital, with a calm maternity clinic, where few births take place. Mathilde, a mid-wife, Firmine, a pediatric nurse, and Louise, the owner of the Carhaix bowling alley, are all friends and lead a happy existence. Catherine, director of the establishment's Human Resources, is sent to restructure the hospital and, most importantly, to eventually shut down the maternity clinic, which is losing money. Four women whose age, personalities, and origins are different, but who will form a quartet overflowing with humanity and humor as they join forces to save the clinic. Life, love, friendship, Brittany and... bowling.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2012-07-18
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Je t'aime, filme-moi !
Overview: This film is a tribute to love, a tribute to cinema. Our two main characters take us with them into the intimacy of "real people". We cross the roads of France with them, in their different vans and pick-up trucks transformed for the occasion into mini movie studios. Their concept: to film "declarations of love" and to deliver them directly by van to their recipients. And we discover, as we go along, that our duo and their own personal adventures are subtly intertwined with the people they film. This mix of genres offers several universes to the spectator in order to make him question himself about love.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2022-06-15
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Pédale dure
Overview: Loic and Seb are a couple living in Paris's gay district, the Marais. Seb is the owner of the district's most trendy, chic and camp nightclub. It's a world devoid of judging eyes where the clientele can be themselves. Things are just terrific. What's more, Loic's dream of transmitting his heart and soul to another human being is about to come true: he's going to be a father. He gave his sperm. Things are just terrific. Marie Haguette, their accomplice, is offering them this gift, the most beautiful gift that two gay guys could receive: a baby! She's three-months pregnant, that dicey moment when things could go wrong... Maybe this is why Loic has morning sickness, contractions and cravings. Things are just terrific. Except for love, Love with a capital L of course, upsets the pie-cart. Marie falls madly in love with Charles, a wonderful stranger, but at least he's straight. What's more, he's coming to dinner tomorrow night. What should Loic and Seb do?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2004-10-20
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Mon Heroine
Overview: A young girl from Rouen dreams about directing movies with Julia Roberts. Overprotected by her mother, she hopes to join a prestigeous cinema school in New York City, but nothing happens as expected, and her dreams are cruelly broken. Denying her fate, she leaves France to New York City, with her nutty-aunt's help, dreaming to give her screenplay to Julia Roberts herself.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2022-12-14
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Three Times Nothing
Overview: Twig, Cap and Rusty live however they can in the Bois de Vincennes, east of Paris. This may completely change the day they learn they are the national lottery winner – though it is less than expected! Yet, they still need to collect the money and share it in equal parts. The hardest part of all will be to resume a “normal” life, filled with surprises and contradictions.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2022-03-16
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La Plus belle pour aller danser
Overview: Marie-Luce Bison, 14 years old, is raised by her father in a cheerful boarding house for seniors where he is the director. It is soon the costume party of her new college: her father does not want her to go ... and anyway, she is not invited. But pushed by Albert, her 80-year-old best friend, Marie-Luce crashes the party, dressed as a man. That evening, everyone takes her for a boy... a boy who is looked at and who pleases. She then decides to invent a male double named Leo to finally live her teenage life. Of course, at home, the relationship with her father becomes complicated.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2023-04-19
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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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Zapping Family
Overview: A French family comments on what's on TV tonight.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-12-23
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Le souffle du dragon
Overview: In Reims, a group of women meet every week aboard a strange boat with a dragon head. Sandrine, Rose-Marie, Poups and Fanny don't know each other, but they all have in common that they have been fighting breast cancer. On the advice of their oncologist, Dr. Cuvelier, they will row to prevent recurrence, to rebuild themselves physically and morally, but also to exorcise the fear that lives inside them.
Genres: Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2022-10-11
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Vous êtes de la police ?
Overview: A former policeman resentfully enters a retirement home. To deceive his boredom, he will investigate the murder of another resident.
Genres: Crime Thriller Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2007-12-19
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Suite en Ré
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2000-12-17
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Fugue en Ré
Overview: Two neighbors, Louis and Coralie, have been at war with each other for years because of their different origins, French and Reunionese. Their mutual hatred is not the only thing they have in common: they also adore their respective children, who secretly love each other.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1998-01-01
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The Do-Gooders
Overview: Three former bank robbers are meeting after 25 years...
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2005-10-19
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Dieumerci !
Overview: A 44 year old guy gets out of jail and wants to become an actor.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2016-03-09
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Shooting Stars
Overview: A young Hungarian dreams of playing for the French football team and will get the help of a couple of friends.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2002-04-24
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Courrier du cœur
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Genres: Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2004-03-17
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Let It Snow
Overview: Jean-Gabriel intends to spend Christmas in the mountains quietly with his family. Many unforeseen events occur, but Jean-Gabriel will do everything to overcome them...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2017-12-13
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Par amour
Overview: Nicole Doucet is a gourmet chef. Everything is going well professionally for the young woman. Guillaume, her son, is a former drug addict whom she has lost sight of. The day he returns to her restaurant, she discovers that he is married to a woman much older than him. Nicole is suspicious of this idyll and fears that Guillaume will fall back into the infernal spiral of drugs.
Genres: Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2003-05-14
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Solitudes
Overview: One night, an interpreter translates a Romanian prostitute's testimony.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2012-09-20
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In Your Dreams
Overview: Ninth is a promising young rapper whose reputation does not exceed even the few streets of his neighborhood. With his band and supported by Keuj, hairdresser apprentice producer, he tries to attend concerts and trying to break into the music, to the chagrin of his mother, who would see him in a more conventional career at the post office...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2005-04-13
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The Roommates Party
Overview: An unusually cold winter forces the french government to push the best housed people to accommodate some poor fellow citizens. The decree called "Le Grand Partage" creates some trouble among the residents of a Paris upscale apartment block.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2015-12-23
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Trivial
Overview: An inspector who just suffered a family tragedy is looking for a missing older man. Man's family is of no help, or are they hiding something? He is helped by a ghost of an actress who died 30 years ago, or is he slowly going insane?
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2007-05-23
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Rosenn
Overview: A famous English writer, Lewis Lafoly, forty and languidly elegant, meets Rosennn Auroch, a young and radiant woman on Bourbon Island in the Indian Ocean in 1909...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2014-03-12
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A Change of Heart
Overview: Jean-Pierre is a brilliant surgeon. The problems of his nearest and dearest don't interest him. But when he discovers that he too has a serious heart disease which needs operating on, Jean-Pierre finds out what it is to be a patient.
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2015-04-15
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T gros !
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2023-12-04
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I'll Be Going Now
Overview: After eighteen years of psychiatric care, the former bank manager Augusto Scrivani returns home from his daughter-in-law Carla. Dino Risi directs a melancholy and scratchy Gassman.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1991-02-08
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Retirement Home
Overview: A story of friendship between a young convict who is forced to work in a retirement home and a group of crazy old people. Together they organize their escape.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2022-02-16
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Serial Teachers 2
Overview: The worst teachers of France landed in England for an ultra-secret mission. With Boulard, the King of the Dunces, they are parachuted in the best school of the country, and they will apply their famous methods on the future of the nation.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2015-07-01
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Léopold
Overview: The story of Léopold Salvat, a retired general practitioner from Montmartre, is bored since he no longer works. An armed attack on a gas station near his home wakes him up.
Genres: Crime Mystery Drama TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2000-07-19
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Inch’Allah Auntie Danielle
Overview: Inch'Allah Auntie Danielle unravels a connection between a tired and embittered farmer and a group of young delinquents. Their encounter, through a shift in the balance of power, turns into a surprising, funny and moving journey.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2020-03-14
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One 4 All
Overview: Olivia, Irina and Masha are improving their acting skills. They no longer believe in Prince Charming, and their career is waning. Olivia works at the front desk at the airport and offers a wonderful plan: he would do so that friends will be aboard the Paris - New York plane and will sit next to wealthy men. Their task is to seduce the rich and pull them out of money. But the fraudsters do not suspect that Comissaire Bayard and his young assistant are closely watching them...
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1999-12-29
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Big City
Overview: Description : Set in the American Wild West, this French-language film quickly overcomes its dire beginning--the Native American ambush of a group of immigrants--and becomes an enjoyable comedy. When the adults of Big City leave for the ambush site, the children realize they are all alone and in charge. With a cast composed almost entirely of young people...
Genres: Adventure Family Western
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2007-12-12
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Le Coffre
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Genres: Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2023-10-23
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Start Me Up
Overview: A grandfather decides to launch a childcare business alongside a bitter divorcee who is also an aging game show icon trying to make a comeback.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2024-10-02
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My Family's Honour
Overview: In the nightclub where she works, Carole is dreaming. She has always dreamed of leaving her rainy Roubaix, her heavy guys and her lousy prospects. She is dreaming of Goa, India, where she thinks she will soon move with her friend Nora... She is dreaming about this, when Nora wakes her up with a catastrophic face... Nora, her best friend, who also works at the Emergency, and not at the night emergency room as her parents believe... Nora is sure she is pregnant. From Olivier, a rich son of a local family who had promised her marriage and a mansion.... In fact of promises, he is quick to back out, and only Carole's presence of mind allows them to get money from him, price of his cowardice. A little money moreover, that brings closer to Goa...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1997-01-02
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Le Family Show
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Genres: Comedy Family TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2015-12-19
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