Jacky Nercessian
Also Known As: Jacky Nersessian, Jackie Nercessian, Jean-Patrick Narcisso
Biography: Jacky Nercessian (or Nersessian (Armenian: Ժաքի Ներսեսյան), born November 16, 1950) is a French actor who is ethnically Armenian. One of his most known roles is Apkar in Mayrig by Henri Verneuil. Nercessian was born in 1950 in Saint-Etienne. He graduated from the Department of Theology to become a Pastor in England. He has played both in cinema and TV – including the role of Mustafa Ismael Faruki in Long Journey (Golden Lion for the Best Feature Film, Venice IFF, 2004). Nercessian played in the Theatre of Renaissance for one season and later toured with the Last Call. In 2009 he starred in Everybody Loves Juliet at Splendid Theatre. In 2010, he appeared in Luc Besson’s blockbuster Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec. Source: Article "Jacky Nercessian" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Saint-Étienne, Loire, France
Adult: No
Birthday: November 16, 1950
Age: 74 years old
Gender: Male
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Coup de vache
Overview: An old man bequeaths his fortune to a television host, much to the chagrin of his own family.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2004-12-19
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The Thirst for Gold
Overview: Urbain Donnadieu's first love is money. It's also his second, third and fourth love. The only reason he married - a tax inspector named Fleurette - was to avoid a fine for tax evasion. For several years, he has been stealing money from his construction company and buying gold bars with his ill-gotten gains. His plan is to deposit all this wealth in a Swiss Bank, where neither his wife - whom he is about to divorce - nor the French State can get at it. Accompanied by his money-grabbing Granny Zézette, Urbain heads off for Switzerland, with his gold concealed in the walls of a model house on the back of a trailer. Unfortunately, his scheme is threatened by his wife and his embittered ex-chauffeur, who are determined to get his money at any cost...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1993-08-31
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The Butterfly
Overview: An old man who has one interest in life, collecting butterflies, has his life changed by an eight year old girl.
Genres: Family Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2002-12-18
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Do Not Forget Me Istanbul
Overview: Several directors from countries of the region were invited to create stories taking place in and around the beautiful city of Istanbul, in the vein of “Paris, je t’aime” and “New York, I love you”. They come together to remind viewers that Istanbul’s history does not belong only to the people of Turkey.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-04-16
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Sarcelles, Nord
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2023-05-01
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Comedy of Power
Overview: Magistrate Jeanne Charmant-Killman doggedly investigates CEO Michel Humeau, who is accused of participating in massive corporate malfeasance. As her investigation leads her into the upper echelons of government, Jeanne becomes intoxicated by the power she is amassing.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2006-02-22
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La Femme coquelicot
Overview: A septuagenarian widow feels revived by an old painter with whom she falls in love.
Genres: Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2005-09-15
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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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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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Peggio di così si muore
Overview: In this deliberately campy, slightly slapstick European parody of Alfred Hitchcock films from the 1950s, a newlywed couple returns from their honeymoon to discover that they have accidentally switched suitcases at the airport. They know the bag they have isn't theirs because it is stuffed with 500 million lire. At first they put out an ad for the owner; then they decide to keep it for themselves. Mayhem ensues when the bag's thuggish owners suddenly show up at the couple's housewarming party and demand they give every penny back. Later when one of them returns to threaten the bride, she accidentally kills him. His partner and a policeman chase the couple into the mountain retreat of the bride's brother, a frustrated writer. He finds the mess inspiring, and then is assisted by the gangster's ghost, who becomes his muse. The ghost gives them the advice they need for the couple to safely escape.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1995-04-21
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Hear Me Out
Overview: Antoine, a history teacher in his early 50s, learns that he has become very hard of hearing. Unable to own up to his handicap, he resigns himself to living in his bubble, even though his entourage finds his behavior increasingly odd. His encounter with Claire, widow and mother of a young girl who has stopped speaking, will lead him to open up to the world.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2021-11-17
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In the Name of the Son
Overview: When Elisabeth, a woman of faith, host of a radio show on a Catholic radio station, devoted to her family and the suffering of the world, is confronted with the pedophilia of priests and the suicide of her son, belief gives way to rage and to violence.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2012-09-29
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Why Is Mother in My Bed?
Overview: Following a bet with his friends, Antoine steals a jacket. The life of his parents will be turned upside down.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1994-07-06
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The Three Brothers
Overview: Three half-brothers are reunited at their mother's funeral. After being told of their inheritance they quickly spend the money, only to find out that they will not receive it after all. The men grow closer while deciding how to proceed.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1995-12-13
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The President's Wife
Overview: When she arrived at the Elysée Palace, Bernadette Chirac expected to finally get the place she deserved, she who had always worked in the shadow of her husband to make him president. Put aside because she was considered too old-fashioned, Bernadette decided to take her revenge by becoming a major media figure.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2023-10-04
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Les Vengeances de Maître Poutifard
Overview: The tasty story of a retired teacher who decides to make his former students pay for years of heckling and humiliation.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2023-06-28
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Le Cactus
Overview: Sami and Patrick are long-time friends. Sami is a hypochondriac. One day, following a misunderstanding at the hospital, Sami thinks he has an incurable neurological disease. He decides to live his last moments to the fullest and goes to India to be treated by a great local "doctor". In the meantime, his friend Patrick, who has been accompanying and supporting him without knowing that this illness is in fact fictitious, finds himself without a wife or job. The initial situation seems to be reversed; Patrick is out of luck and Sami seems less and less ill.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2005-12-14
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The Three Kings
Overview: The Three Wise Men – Balthazar, Melchior and Gaspard – are on their way to Bethlehem to pay homage to the infant Jesus when they are suddenly, an inexplicably, transported two thousand years into the future. They find themselves walking the streets of Paris, where they encounter a young woman called Macha who, they are convinced, will lead them to the newborn Messiah.
Genres: Comedy Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2001-12-12
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Colonel Chabert
Overview: When Colonel Chabert returns from the war, he discovers that he has lost everything.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1994-09-21
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Pitchipoï
Overview: Julien Schulmann is a comedian. He has just lost his father, a Polish Jew and extermination camp survivor. Before he died, his father left a "will" in which he requested that his other son, Pierre, who hasn't been heard from for two years, spread his ashes in Poland. His father's preference comes as a rude shock for Julien, and it opens a chasm inside him, slowly bringing to light an unspeakable secret.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-02-04
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Vive la mariée... et la libération du Kurdistan
Overview: Kurdish expert Hiner Saleem (Shero) wrote and directed this French comedy-drama, set inside the 100,000-population Kurdish community in Paris. The original French title translates as "Long Live the Bride...and the Liberation of Kurdistan." Cheto (Georges Corraface) seeks a wife via videotapes while still seeing his French girlfriend, immigration office worker Christine (Stephanie Lagarde). Cheto places an order for a beautiful girl, but he's disappointed when her sister, country girl Mina (Marina Kobakhidze), arrives at the airport as a substitute. Family pressure forces him to marry her. Unhappy with the way she's treated by Cheto, Mina acquires some progressive notions from Leila (Schahla Aalam) and other local feminists, leading to confrontations with Cheto.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1998-06-03
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Jean-Philippe
Overview: A bourgeois office drone whose raison d'être is the music of French rocker Johnny Hallyday awakens one day in an alternate universe where the famed musician never recorded a single song. When he’s not at the office dutifully plugging-away, Fabrice lives a deadly dull life.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2006-04-05
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Incontrôlable
Overview: Georges, one morning, became uncontrollable despite himself. Something that has the donkey's voice in Shrek, can control his body.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2006-02-08
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Zone reptile
Overview: 17 year old Mic feels constrained in a world which is not his own: a lower middleclass suburb of Marseilles, conformism... His being different drives him into a loneliness to which rockmusic not only brings tranquillity and comfort but flings him into the adventure of discovering himself.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2002-10-09
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Christmas at Bunny's
Overview: Santa Claus is depressed and refuses to give away gifts as he usually does. Bugs Bunny is charged with finding him and cheering him up back into his job, including showing him some of his own old cartoons.
Genres: TV Movie Music Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1997-12-24
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Elsewhere
Overview: Patrick Perrin is a dealer in a small seaside casino. His dream? To leave. To leave everything for an unknown destination. But a trip such as this doesn't happen overnight. To start with, Patrick decides to buy a suitcase. A nice red one with wheels that he immediately puts at the foot of his bed. All that's left to do is to fill it up and choose a destination.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2010-12-08
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The Great Journey
Overview: Reda, summoned to accompany his father on a pilgrimage to Mecca, complies reluctantly - as he preparing for his baccalaureat and, even more important, has a secret love relationship. The trip across Europe in a broken-down car is also the departure of his father: upon arrival in Mecca, both Reda and his father are not the characters they were at the start of the movie. Avoiding the hackneyed theme of the return to the homeland, the film uses the departure to renew a connection between two generation.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2004-11-09
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The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec
Overview: An adventure set in the early part of the 20th century, focused on a popular novelist and her dealings with would-be suitors, the cops, monsters, and other distractions.
Genres: Fantasy Adventure Action Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2010-04-09
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Legal Aid
Overview: At the age of forty, Antoine Lahoud is still defending petty criminals who are entitled only to legal aid. He still has a quixotic notion of his mission but, lately, his little income and his arduous working conditions have been eroding his idealism. So, when Henry Marsac, a leading (but seemingly corrupt), professional colleague, offers him to work on bigger and more lucrative cases, he ends up accepting. Little does he know what Marsac is up to...
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2009-05-06
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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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Golden Youth
Overview: Paris, France, 1979. Rose, a rebellious orphaned teenager, and Michel, a young aspiring painter, enjoy their crazy love under the neon lights of the decadent nightclub Le Palace, where they establish an ambiguous relationship with Lucille and Hubert, two bohemian bourgeois who will change their lives.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2019-01-16
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Let's Dance
Overview: In the Bellinsky family: there is Solomon the father, 80 years old, brimming with life. He is fighting not to be buried too quickly, between tap dance lessons under the high patronage of Fred Astaire and the search for a companion... The mother, Geneviève, dreams of only one thing: quietly continuing her infantilisation, with her household help, protector and guardian angel, Mr Mootoousamy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2007-11-14
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Monsieur Naphtali
Overview: Monsieur Naphtali is a good-natured but somewhat feeble older man turned away from the rest home where he lives. In search of a place to stay, he finds his way to Paris, where a woman taking surveys takes pity on him and brings him home for a meal and a bed for the night. Naphtali finds himself spending the evening with the survey woman, her brother who works in publishing, his lovely but unhappy wife, an alcoholic doctor, and his wife, an ill-tempered judge. In a simple and unpretentious manner, Naphtali forces them all to open up about themselves and discuss elements of their lives that they usually prefer to avoid.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1999-08-04
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Les Mamies
Overview: When 12 year old Alex runs away, his grandmother ask her 6 friends for help and follow the kid from Paris to Lisbon.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1992-11-11
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The Nansen Passport
Overview: On July 5th, 1922, Norwegian explorer, scientist and diplomat Fridtjof Nansen creates a passport with which, between 1922 and 1945, he managed to protect the fundamental human rights as citizens of the world of thousands of people, famous and anonymous, who became stateless due to the tragic events that devastated Europe in the first quarter of the 20th century.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2016-06-21
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Le Procès de Bobigny
Overview: In 1972 16-year-old Marie-Claire became pregnant after a rape. With help from her mother Michelle and three other women, she underwent a clandestine abortion. Under a 1920 law, the five women were arrested and charged. Supported by a procession of well-known French (eg Simone de Beauvoir), the five were released and the law was adapted.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2006-03-29
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Voyeur(s)
Overview: The story of a man who has decided to turn his hotel into a laboratory for personal fantasies. Behind each door, in the intimacy of crossed paths in the middle of the night, scenes play out before his prying eyes. He is the only one to see what is taboo in the light of his fantasies. Unless…
Genres: Horror
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2020-04-12
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588 rue Paradis
Overview: A successful playwright reflects on his journey from his Armenian roots to adapting in France, forty years after his family's move to Marseilles. He now goes by a new name to fit in better with French society.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1992-01-14
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Bonhoeffer: Pastor. Spy. Assassin
Overview: As the world teeters on the brink of annihilation, Dietrich Bonhoeffer joins a deadly plot to assassinate Hitler, risking his faith and fate to save millions of Jews from genocide.
Genres: History Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-11-20
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God Save The Tuches
Overview: When Jeff and Cathy’s grandson Jiji is selected for a training camp with Arsenal, it’s a dream opportunity for the whole family to head over to England and meet the royal family.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2025-02-05
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Capitaine Casta : Amélie a disparu
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Genres: Crime Drama Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2007-11-19
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