Bernard Blancan
Also Known As: 베르나르 블랑칸
Biography: Bernard Blancan (born 9 September 1958) is a French actor. He has appeared in more than 85 films and television shows since 1989. He shared the award for Best Actor for his role in Days of Glory at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival. Source: Article "Bernard Blancan" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Bayonne, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France
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Birthday: September 09, 1958
Age: 66 years old
Gender: Male
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Days of Glory
Overview: 1943. They have never stepped foot on French soil but because France was at war, Said, Abdelkader, Messaoud and Yassir enlist in the French Army, along with 130,000 other “indigenous” soldiers, to liberate the “fatherland” from the Nazi enemy. Heroes that history has forgotten…
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2006-09-27
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Eat
Overview: A woman recovering from an eating disorder re-encounters someone from her past.
Genres: TV Movie Thriller Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2012-07-10
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Simone: Woman of the Century
Overview: Simone Veil's life story through the pivotal events of Twentieth Century. Her childhood, her political battles, her tragedies. An intimate and epic portrait of an extraordinary woman who eminently challenged and transformed her era defending a humanist message still keenly relevant today.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2022-10-12
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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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No Pasaran
Overview: Maxence Lafourcade raises pigs in the Pyrenees. His life changes when he learns that a highway will cross his his farm. To face the cynical deputy mayor and his project, he must make an unnatural alliance with a disillusioned lawyer, whose daughter Maxence falls in love with.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2009-07-15
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Leaving
Overview: A bourgeois housewife, planning to go back to work as a physiotherapist after having devoted 20 years to her husband and two children, has her comfortable, elegant life turned upside down when she falls for a Spanish builder and begins a runaway affair.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2009-08-12
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We Need a Vacation
Overview: It is the end of the school year for the children of a dormitory town. Most of them leave the place for a vacation with their parents but not Lucien and Adama whose parents can't afford the expense. While the big brothers of the housing estate are busy breaking the law Lulu and Adama manage to sneak into their neighbors' trailer. The two stowaways are elated until they reach their destination: a nudist camp...!
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2002-01-16
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A Song of Innocence
Overview: Antoine Santana - Issues of class, gender roles and parenting bubble to the surface in this 19th-century tale about a shepherd girl (Isild Le Besco) who farms off her own newborn to a wet nurse in the countryside so that she can earn high wages nursing the infant of a wealthy couple. The two young mothers soon become friends, but trouble arises when the bourgeois hubby takes issue with his wife fraternizing with the help. Émilie Dequenne and Grégoire Colin star. - Isild Le Besco, Émilie Dequenne, Grégoire Colin
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2005-08-31
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Behind the Walls
Overview: A young runaway rejects society's condemnation and dares to fulfill his dreams. France, 1930s. 14-year-old orphan Yves Tréguier sees the world through the bars of "educational homes" where he is raised in conditions worthy of a penal colony, and dreams of a dramatic escape across the ocean to New York.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2008-04-30
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The Evening Dress
Overview: Like many of her classmates, 12 year old tomboy Juliette has a crush on Mrs. Solenska, a teacher distinguished by stylish attire and an uninhibited, provocative classroom demeanor. Juliette's fascination turns into all-consuming obsession, forcing revelations from both the girl and her teacher.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2009-12-12
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Outside the Law
Overview: After losing their family home in Algeria in the 1920s, three brothers and their mother are scattered across the globe. Messaoud joins the French army fighting in Indochina; Abdelkader becomes a leader of the Algerian independence movement in France and Saïd moves to Paris to make his fortune in the shady clubs and boxing halls of Pigalle.
Genres: Action Drama History War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2010-09-21
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Junkyard Dog
Overview: Dog and Mirales have been friends since childhood, and live in a small village in the south of France. They spend most of the day hanging around in the streets. To kill time, Mirales has got into the habit of teasing Dog, to the extent that he has become a sort of whipping boy. But one summer, Dog meets Elsa, and they fall in love. Eaten away with jealousy, Mirales will have to get over his past to be able to grow and find his place…
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2023-04-19
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A Moment of Happiness
Overview: Philippe, 25, arrives one morning in Arcachon, where his sister lives. He is a young man with no ties, someone people easily confide in. He works seasonal jobs in the restaurant industry. Betty, 20, is a young mother full of life and tenderness for her 5-year-old son, Damien. They still live within the family household, but Betty's relationship with her father is strained. Damien is affected by this tense atmosphere. Betty finds a job, leaves the family home, and gains independence. Betty and Philippe will cross paths.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2002-03-06
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After the Ispeguy Pass
Overview: Martial lost his father after the Ispeguy Pass. Since that day, he strangely persists in repairing the damaged vehicle. Maybe to keep him close, just a little more before growing up.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2016-01-01
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What's Wrong with My Family?
Overview: Céline and Mathieu, a couple in their thirties who are farmers, are fighting relentlessly to adopt a child without any progress in their file. One day, they meet Darius and Julien, a homosexual couple who have started the process of GPA in Canada. The idea made its way, why not them? They ask themselves many questions, they hesitate. But despite their family's hostility to surrogate motherhood, they decided to go ahead.
Genres: TV Movie Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2022-10-11
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Grand garçon
Overview: Paul is thirty years old and can’t seem to settle down. When his father tells him that his grandmother would love to see him with a girlfriend before dying, he goes on a quest to find a girl with whom he can make it happen.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2021-11-06
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Peekaboo
Overview: Raymond is a very lonely peasant who lives so detached from the world that the peasants of the village nearby his family house consider him as dead for more than 30 years. None sees him but people know he is around and, as all secretly reproach themselves to not have helped the young Raymond after his all family death before he disappeared, they consider the family house as haunted by Raymond's ghost. When Frédéric, Caroline and their children come from the city to install themselves in the countryside, they know nothing about these villages tells and find in Raymond's family house a rare opportunity.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2006-02-01
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The Rebel, Louise Michel
Overview: A fiercely active Communard, Louise Michel is condemned for taking arms against Bismarck. Along with thousands of other revolutionaries, she is deported to New Caledonia, whilst, back in Paris, a young parliamentarian Georges Clemenceau campaigns for a truce with the Communards. During her exile, Louise Michel becomes a teacher and wins the admiration of the other deportees, inspiring them to rise up against the colonial order…
Genres: Drama History TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2010-04-07
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Dirty Weekend
Overview: Two reckless romantics on a doomed weekend in Normandy find themselves sharing their idyllic love nest with a disturbed fugitive.
Genres: Comedy Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-09-25
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The Silence of Joan
Overview: In 1430, Joan of Arc, the prisoner of a powerful lord of the north of France is sold to the English. As a captive awaiting her death, she is approached by different men for whom she is believed to be the embodiment of the infinite.
Genres: History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2011-05-13
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Virus au paradis
Overview: Deadly virus transmitted by human cough spreads quickly with the help of migratory birds. Scientists race against time in search of a cure.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-06-23
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Le Bruit des trousseaux
Overview: Alexis Pasquier, a young French teacher, begins his first day of classes at the Nancy prison. There he meets Léa, a young woman with whom he falls madly in love. Two worlds open up to him: true love and the prison environment. He will never be the same anymore.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2021-11-08
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Amour d'enfance
Overview: Paul returns home to the family farm and rediscovers the people and places of his childhood.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2001-11-21
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Landes
Overview: A young widow wants to carry on with her husband's work:managing a pine plantation where they extract resin;but most of all,she wants to have electricity installed in her valuable property.In this place,it seems that 1789 never happened and that time stood still:her workers,circa 1920,do not receive any salary and ,like the peasants in the middle ages,have to bring their production to their landlady. But her progressive ideas come up against men still remembering WW1 and against her bourgeois peers.Her foreman ,first bewildered ,is finally won over by his boss' resilience and strength of character.For her own good,the young heiress is too ahead of her time though.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2013-07-31
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The Pharmacist
Overview: An ecological pharmacist uses ancient Celtic techniques to murder industrial magnates whose practices harm the planet.
Genres: Crime Drama Horror
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2003-01-15
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Alive
Overview: To regain the one he loves and his children, Alex Meyer, composer and director of musicals, hard hit by his marital breakdown dating back three years, decides to rebuild himself.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2004-10-18
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Carmen
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Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2011-09-23
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Inguélézi
Overview: When her husband dies, Geneviève loses her bearings. She runs away from her loved ones. But in the trunk of his car a clandestine man hid. He is Kurdish, his name is Khader and understands that she must drive him to England.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2004-01-01
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Skin of Man, Heart of Beast
Overview: After fifteen years of absence, a man returns to his family. Five-year-old Aurelie watches the stranger arrive and develops an immediate affinity with him. Her older sister, however, is very suspicious of the intruder and certain that misfortune will follow. The adults see nothing, but struggle with all their might when tragedy strikes. Naturally, the two girls bear the brunt of the impact. The film is an homage to the distant and primitive world of childhood, which shapes each of us.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1999-08-11
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La beauté du monde
Overview: A sensitive young lady painter retreats to the countryside, where she can bask in the presence of beauty, possibly at the expense of an awareness of the needs of other living beings.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1999-08-25
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Gare au Fenwick
Overview: Alan, a withdrawn and solitary young man, usually finds solace in his inner world. Today is the big day: he’s leaving the family home to enter working life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2022-09-14
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Scarlet
Overview: A French widower and WWI veteran returns home after the war to raise his newborn daughter.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2023-01-11
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Conte philosophique
Overview: Someone is waking up from the hypnosis of the cinema and goes out to investigate the world.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1998-01-01
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Crossfire
Overview: A grizzled Parisian detective is sent to an outpost town in Southern France to dismantle a gang of killers which has freed a notorious criminal. The detective inherits a team of unmotivated and dishevelled detectives, and he makes connections nobody else ever saw because nobody else bothered to look. A mysterious, charismatic figure, he leads by example, and gradually his team begins to feel like cops again.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2008-06-11
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Cosmodrama
Overview: Maybe the 1960s, maybe the future. Seven astronauts wake up in a spaceship, not knowing where they have come from nor where they are heading. As the ship operates by itself, they have ample time to meditate, rather scientifically, on matter, life and the universe.
Genres: Science Fiction Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-01-24
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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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Smoke Signals
Overview: 2012, John Dalli, the European Commissioner for Health, is accused of corruption and influence peddling related to the tobacco industry. French Member of the European Parliament José Bové, maverick politician and prominent figure of the environmental party, suspects a setup by the tobacco manufacturer Swedish Match, potentially involving the President of the European Commission, José Barroso. Standing alone against all odds, he decides to investigate and unravel this story, which shook the foundations of the entire European institutions.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2024-05-01
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Le temps de la désobéissance
Overview: In 1942, Edouard and Lucas are two childhood friends, both policemen in Nancy in different police stations. Soon the beautiful friendship between the two policemen will shatter with all the suffering and disappointment that implies.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2006-02-20
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Dumped
Overview: Françoise has just been dumped by her husband for a much younger woman. In order to cheer her up, and to celebrate her 60th birthday, sisters Rose and Alice decide to take their mother to a resort on the tropical island of Reunion so they can relax, work on their tans, and have too many margaritas. But when Rose pays a one-night stand, Thierry, to show her mother a good time, their holiday plans start to unravel.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2018-04-18
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London River
Overview: After traveling to London to check on their missing children in the wake of the 2005 terror attacks on the city, two strangers come to discover their respective children had been living together at the time of the attacks
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-02-09
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Toril
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Genres: Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2016-09-14
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Shock Resistant
Overview: A mysterious old lady dwells in an abandoned apartment block. She lives alone but will simply not leave the place.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2007-01-01
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Adieu Gary
Overview: Au milieu de nulle part, une cité ouvrière vidée de sa population depuis quelques années déjà. Pourtant, certains habitants ont décidé d'y rester, plus par choix que par nécessité, parce que c'est là qu'ils sont nés et qu'ils ont grandi. Parmi eux il y a Francis, l'ouvrier consciencieux qui continue d'entretenir la machine sur laquelle il a travaillé toute sa vie ; Samir, son fils.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2009-07-22
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Hotaru
Overview: “You have a gift. Down here, your gift is useless. So we’re gonna show you the most beautiful things. You’re gonna have more memories than everyone else. And then, you will sleep. You won’t wake up.”
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-01-28
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The Count of Monte Cristo
Overview: Edmond Dantes becomes the target of a sinister plot and is arrested on his wedding day for a crime he did not commit. After 14 years in the island prison of Château d’If, he manages a daring escape. Now rich beyond his dreams, he assumes the identity of the Count of Monte-Cristo and exacts his revenge on the three men who betrayed him.
Genres: Adventure Action Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2024-06-28
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For intérieur
Overview: The tale of a little boy named Cricket and his close grandfather, a true collector of memories who will pull off his dream of flying away in the most moving way.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2004-11-24
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The Law of My Country
Overview: Algeria. Benjamin, Kateb and Antoine are three teenagers from three religious backgrounds who never should have met. But they share the same passion for football and the same disregard for the disapproving looks which their unusual friendship draws.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2012-07-03
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Être vivant
Overview: A male voice describes, with ruthless precision, the physical and mental journey of a man who has just become homeless.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2013-12-01
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Le voyage de la Veuve
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Genres: History War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2008-12-31
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Junior
Overview: Junior is a 13-year-old tomboy with pimples. After being diagnosed with stomach flu, Junior's body undergoes a bizarre metamorphosis.
Genres: Horror Fantasy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2011-05-16
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Apollo ou la vie sauvage
Overview: In the not-too-distant future, humanity will be confronted with an inexorable energy crisis. To face it, a team of astronauts in suspended animation is sent to another galaxy to collect uranium. Seventy-four years later, Apollo disembark on this wild planet where the resources seem miraculous.
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2018-01-01
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Charlotte Corday
Overview: Set in July 1793 during the outbreak of the French Revolution and the unleashing of the Reign of Terror, a young girl from Caen named Charlotte Corday plots to assassinate Jacobin newspaper editor Jean-Paul Marat.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-05-08
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Main basse sur une île
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Genres: Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2011-02-25
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1971, Motorcycle Heart
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Genres: Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2017-06-10
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Cyrano, My Love
Overview: Paris, France, December 1897. The young playwright Edmond Rostand feels like a failure. Inspiration has abandoned him. Married and father of two children, desperate and penniless, he persuades the great actor Constant Coquelin to perform the main role in his new play. But there is a problem: Coquelin wants to premiere it at Christmas and Edmond has not written a single word.
Genres: Comedy History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2018-11-10
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Le Voyage aux Pyrénées
Overview: Getting away from it all causes more problems than it solves in this comedy from the French writing-directing team of Jean-Marie Larrieu and Arnaud Larrieu. Alexandre Darou (Jean-Pierre Darroussin) and his wife Aurore Lalu (Sabine Azema) are a pair of well-known actors who need a break from the tension and fast pace of their lives in show biz. Adopting the names "Mr. and Mrs. Go," Alexandre and Aurore head for a village high in the mountains of Southwest France, where they hope to enjoy some relaxing downtime and they won't be bothered. However, Alexandre and Aurore underestimated their own fame, and it isn't long before everyone in the town knows that a pair of movie stars are in their midst. As the couple head into the hills, Alexandre and Aurore discover they don't have much of a talent for roughing it, and while she believed that getting away from the city would help her deal with a recent bout with nymphomania, getting back to nature only increases her appetite for other men.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2008-05-16
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A Summer Day
Overview: The sudden death of a teenager during a soccer match puts a small community completely off-balance.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2006-06-06
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Red Knight
Overview: 11th Century AD. In a world that burns with the heat of battle, a world torn apart by Crusades, one knight traverses the desolate wastes laid bare by bloody conflict. Prepare yourself for a descent into a brutal hell, where armies clash and blood flows like rivers, and where a sharp blade is the only means of defense against an army of evil.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2003-05-17
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Because of a Boy
Overview: When Vincent finds himself a victim of outing in his high school, he must accept to live with the drastic changes it provokes, and redefine his relationships with his friends and family.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2002-03-13
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A Considerable Disturbance
Overview: Laurent's fate is to be a soccer superstar. But he happens to fall in love with a Fabienne, 40. He is only 18, and his career is about to fall apart...
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2000-03-22
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Un an
Overview: Victoire wakes up one morning to find the body of her partner, Felix, lying on the floor of her bedroom. Without being able to reconstruct the course of the last few hours, but convinced that she was not completely to blame, she decides to flee. Wherever she is, all bridges are cut, a certain Louis-Philippe, however, curiously always knows how to find her and keeps her informed of the outcome of the "affair". But Louis-Philippe does not tell everything. What is he hiding? Who is who? Who is lying, fabricating, denying, who is the other's denier? And what really happened?
Genres: Mystery Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2006-06-28
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The Connection
Overview: Newly transferred to the bustling port city of Marseille to assist with a crackdown on organized crime, energetic young magistrate Pierre Michel is given a rapid-fire tutorial on the ins and outs of an out-of-control drug trade. Pierre's wildly ambitious mission is to take on the French Connection, a highly organized operation that controls the city's underground heroin economy and is overseen by the notorious —and reputedly untouchable— Gaetan Zampa. Fearless, determined and willing to go the distance, Pierre plunges into an underworld world of insane danger and ruthless criminals.
Genres: Thriller Crime Action
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2014-12-03
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L'été des Lip
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2012-05-05
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La Baleine
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
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Les Nuits de sister Welsh
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Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2010-10-27
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Kika
Overview: While pregnant with her second child, Kika faces the sudden death of her partner. Totally heartbroken, and broke, she sets her priorities straight : 1. make money fast 2. stay strong. Dirty underwear, dildos and neurotic parents will unexpectedly help.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2025-11-12
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