Bruno Podalydès
Also Known As: Bruno Podalydes
Biography: Bruno Podalydès (born 11 March 1961) is a French writer, film director, producer and actor. His brother Denis Podalydès is also an actor. Source: Article "Bruno Podalydès" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Versailles, Yvelines, France
Birthday: March 11, 1961
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Paris Je T'aime
Overview: Olivier Assayas, Gus Van Sant, Wes Craven and Alfonso Cuaron are among the 20 distinguished directors who contribute to this collection of 18 stories, each exploring a different aspect of Parisian life. The colourful characters in this drama include a pair of mimes, a husband trying to chose between his wife and his lover, and a married man who turns to a prostitute for advice.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2006-06-21
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Park Benches
Overview: As she does every morning, Lucie takes advantage of her journey to work to lose herself for a while in the pages of a good book. And as she does every morning, she joins her colleagues at the office with a smile. It's a working day just like any other. Then suddenly all activity in the office stops. All attention is turned towards the window of the opposite building opposite and abanner reading: Man Alone. Is it a hoax? A cry for help? Everyone has his own interpretation, and will try, by any means possible, to discover what lies behind this mysterious message.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2009-07-08
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Ducoboo
Overview: Ducoboo is a very inventive dunce and joker, he is very resourceful at finding new ways to copy from his neighbor, to cheat or to defy the teacher's authority.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2011-06-22
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Freedom-Oleron
Overview: 39 years old Jacques Monot is tired from the same vacation he and his family have every year so he decides to buy a boat.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2001-06-20
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Both Sides of the Blade
Overview: Jean and Sara have been living together for 10 years. When they first met, Sara was living with François, Jean’s best friend and an admirer from back when he played rugby. Jean and Sara love each other. One day, Sara sees François in the street. He does not notice her, but she is overtaken by the sensation that her life could suddenly change. François gets back in touch with Jean. For the first time in years. He suggests they start working together again. From here on, things spiral out of control.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2022-07-08
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Granny's Funeral
Overview: A provincial chemist in the throes of a mid-life crisis must choose between burying his dearly departed grandmother and cremating her in this quirky comedy of manners starring Valerie Lemercier, Denis Podalydes, and Isabelle Candelier.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2012-06-19
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The Other Son
Overview: Two young men, one Israeli and one Palestinian, discover they were accidentally switched at birth.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2012-04-04
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Only God Sees Me
Overview: Albert, a sound engineer who is chronically hesitant successively meets three charming young women who will, each in their own way, provoke and help him to get a better hold of himself.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1998-06-03
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Josephine
Overview: Josephine doesn't like her job and keeps on having relationships without a future. Her sister and parents keep pushing her to find a good husband. To shut them up, she creates a handsome Brazilian millionaire but her little white lie has a flip side - she loses everything to find the love of her life.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2013-06-19
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Killing Blues
Overview: Max, a ruthless fifty-year-old hitman, discovers he has a problem: he now faints at the drop of blood. With his future in the profession in jeopardy, he's going to have to retrain... But not so simple when his only professional skill is to kill people... They are helped by a couple of young neighbors, Karim and Stéphanie, who do not imagine for a moment who they are dealing with... Max becomes attached, in spite of himself, to the young couple, until his past catches up with him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2023-04-12
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Love Boat
Overview: To overcome their financial problems, Justine, her husband and their whole group of friends organize a fake romantic cruise for Franck, a big investor, who is trying to seduce a woman.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2024-06-05
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I Could've Been a Hooker
Overview: Mina has a panic attack at the checkout of a DIY shop and falls into Pierre's arms. This is the story of a slightly mad girl, a guy who's too normal, a big pair of pruning shears and an old piano teacher.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2011-01-01
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In Safe Hands
Overview: Théo is given up for adoption by his biological mother on the very day he is born. After this anonymous birth, the mother has two months to change her mind… Or not. The child welfare services and adoption service spring into action… The former have to take care of the baby and support it during this limbo-like time, this period of uncertainty, while the latter must find a woman to become his adoptive mother. She is called Alice, and she has spent the last ten years fighting to have a child.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2018-12-05
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Alain Resnais, l'audacieux
Overview: A genius inventor of forms, Alain Resnais is one of the fathers of cinematic modernity. This portrait, rich in archives, looks back on the career of a discreet non-conformist, in perpetual search of renewal to fight against anxiety.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2022-09-05
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Rembrandt
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2025-06-11
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The Sweet Escape
Overview: Michel, a fifty year old man, graphic designer, decides to change the urban lifestyle and go on an adventure. Fascinated by airmail, he dreams at Jean Mermoz when he's on scooter. One day, Michel sees a picture of a kayak.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2015-06-10
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Une fille au-dessus de tout
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Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
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Wow!
Overview: Catherine and Oracio are real estate advisors, and are visiting two properties in quick succession: a large bourgeois house "which can have a swimming pool and RER view", and a small modern apartment in the heart of Bougival's golden triangle.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2023-06-07
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I'm All Yours
Overview: Charming thirty-year-old Hanna Belkacem has inherited the gene from her parents: she is unable to say no. And as she is the Director of Human resources of a big firm such infirmity is not without its problems, particularly when she has to fire someone. The only solution she has found to be forgiven is to... get l* with the men she lays off!
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2015-09-30
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The Day of the Crows
Overview: In a cabin of the deep of the forest, a child and his father lead a wild and hard life in utmost isolation. The child grows up fearing and admiring his father, with the ghosts haunting the forest as his only companions. Until the day he discovers the neighbouring village and meets a young girl there, Manon. At her side, he discovers that love exists. From then on he won't cease to search for the place where his father's love for him is hiding.
Genres: Animation Family Fantasy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2012-10-23
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Let the Sunshine In
Overview: Isabelle, Parisian artist, divorced mother, is looking for love, true love, at last.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2017-09-27
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The Ultimate Accessory
Overview: The story of Aleksandra and Cyrille, a prominent, trendy, and very well-off Parisian couple, whose life is not quite the same after seven-year-old Alekseï from Russia suddenly pops up in their 100% cashmere, childless home. Aleksandra soon realises that this little boy they have adopted is not quite what she had been hoping for...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2013-12-11
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My Worst Nightmare
Overview: Agathe runs an art gallery. Her husband François is a publisher. Together they have one son, and in every way seem to be the picture of normality — but emotions are stewing under the surface. All it takes is the arrival of a complete stranger for things to start unravelling. Patrick is brash, uncouth and totally unselfconscious...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2011-09-12
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A Night in Versailles
Overview: A young man in Versailles invites a Parisian girl to his place for dinner. The evening is thrown into turmoil.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1992-06-17
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Summertime
Overview: In 1971, a young woman moves from the French countryside to Paris and begins a passionate love affair with a feminist leader.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2015-08-19
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Bécassine !
Overview: Born to a poor farming family in Brittany, Bécassine finds work as a nanny with the Marquise de Grand-Air who has recently adopted a lovely baby named Loulotte. A strong bond develops between Becassine and Loulotte, and life is sweet, until the Grand-Airs are threatened with financial ruin… Can Bécassine save the day? Naïve, funny, dreamy, optimistic, loving, Bécassine is also inventive, courageous and always ready to handle any situation in her own unique way – a superheroine like no other. César-winner Bruno Podalydès returns with a family movie adapted from the beloved French comic book Bécassine.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2018-06-20
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French Tech
Overview: Down-on-his-luck, unemployed Alexandre has two months to prove to his wife he can take care of his two young kids and be financially independent. Now, the thing is, although The Box, a user-friendly startup, wants to hire him on pro- bation, the company’s slogan is “No kids!” and Séverine, his future boss, is a short-tempered “killer”. So if Alexandre wants to land the job, he’s bound to lie... Will his meeting with Arcimboldo, an “entrepreneur of himself” and the king of online odd jobs, help the brave, disoriented Alexandre overcome all those challenges?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2021-01-14
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Chocolat
Overview: Chocolat the clown, the first black stage performer in France, goes from anonymity to fame after forming an unprecedented duo with fellow performer Footit in the very popular in Belle Epoque Paris. But easy money, gambling, and discrimination take their toll on their friendship and Chocolat's career.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2016-02-03
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Jean
Overview: Jean, a well-known but casual actor, arrives on set freshly shaved while his director had asked him to come with a four-day beard. This innocuous gesture is a disaster for the filming and, for Jean, an opportunity to finally pay attention to the world that surrounds him.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2020-10-13
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The Rendez-Vous of Déjà-Vu
Overview: Hector meets Truquette on Bastille Day and becomes obsessed with seducing her. The plan is to get her to the seaside pronto. Pator is not complaining, especially if her friend Charlotte comes along for the ride. So off they go, down the country roads of a broke and broken France. Times are hard ! Suddenly the government cancels a month of summer. Everyone back to work! A wad of cash and two gun shots later, the group splits in two like France itself. But careering away from work in no way daunts the remaining trio, dead set on relocating the Bastille Girl and reveling in an endless summer.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2013-06-05
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Love Song for Tough Guys
Overview: In a port city, the lives of a few isolated people, used to violence, are strongly influenced by the love they feel for each other. Choices, envy, love and tenderness are the driving forces that help these characters to be themselves and give meaning to their lives. A tribute to poetry, theatre and art.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2021-09-29
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Le Beau Rôle
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Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2024-12-18
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