Florence Giorgetti
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Biography: Florence Giorgetti (15 February 1944 – 31 October 2019) was a French stage and film actress. She was nominated for the César Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in The Lacemaker. She died in October 2019, in her native Paris, aged 75. Source: Article "Florence Giorgetti" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Paris, France
Birthday: February 15, 1943
Deathday: October 31, 2019
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Gender: Female
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Rum Runners
Overview: During the prohibition era, Cornelius, a bootlegger, is on the run from the American coastguards. He comes across a silent film actress, Linda, on the set of a movie and falls in love with her.
Genres: Adventure Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1971-10-13
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Midnight Exam
Overview: When she lands up in the middle of nowhere, Séréna, a rather thoughtless young woman, is supposed to marry Hubert, a country squire she came into contact with through the classifieds in "Le Chasseur Français", a magazine for hunters. But she gets to know Roland, a bachelor farmer who develops an instant burning passion for her. Prepared to do anything for her, he goes as far as to holdup banks to secure the good life she longs for. Although she confesses (wrongly) that she suffers from AIDS, he is in no way discouraged. Séréna accepts to marry Roland but on her wedding night she balks at taking the "midnight exam". She runs away and meets Antoine, a married writer, who hides her in the attic of his house, without his wife knowing it.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1998-10-28
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Staircase C
Overview: Story of a snooty young critic at the centre of several plotlines which run throughout his apartment block.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1985-06-06
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Antonio's Girlfriend
Overview: It's a simple love story. Antonio likes Claudie. But Claudie is not so simple ... Claudie is a young woman who stumbles into reality. Little by little, we discover the life of her and those around her. Her friends, her family, her past ... And Antonio, who loves her and takes her by the hand and does not want to let go. He would certainly like to succeed in understanding her. And it's important to understand when you love. Claudie has her whole life in front of her, what is she afraid of?
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1992-10-28
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Viva Algeria
Overview: This movie portrays three women living in today's Algeria between modern society and Islamic fundamentalism, self-determination and dependence. Goucem, a young woman who works for a photographer and mistress of a rich doctor, her mother Papicha, a former cabaret star, and her best friend Fifi, a prostitute, all live in a hotel in the city center of Algiers. Their difficult personal situation and the growing influence of Islam lead to dramatic consequences...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2004-04-07
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The Lacemaker
Overview: Pomme is a meek and mild French beautician whose life takes a fateful turn during a vacation to Normandy. She becomes the lover of middle-class literature-student François. The relationship sours when François takes her home to meet his parents, thanks in no small part to their differing social backgrounds.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1977-05-25
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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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Make Room for Tomorrow
Overview: Four generations of Oppenheim men gather in Paris for Isaac's 90th birthday. He's "Romeo," still a lady's man, waiting to hear from a woman to whom he has proposed, threatening suicide if she says no. They gather at Isaac's grandson's, Ben, who lives with Peggy and their son Mathias who's 10. Joining them, from Israel, is Isaac's son Elie. Against a backdrop of Elie's attempts to call his ex-wife, Ben and Peggy's marital difficulties, Mathias's budding sexuality, everyone's love of chess and practical jokes, Ben's house (shifting dangerously on its foundation), and the twentieth-century struggles of the Jews, the film explores their relationships and Isaac's aging.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1979-06-06
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Nestor Burma, détective de choc
Overview: Detective Nestor Burma begins an investigation into the corrupt drug-ridden punk rock music world.
Genres: Action Comedy Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1982-04-14
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Le revolver et la rose
Overview: Eric, a 14-year-old boy, is now almost alone. His mother, faced with her husband's bizarre behavior, left the marital home. Eric's father, for his part, leads a triple existence. On the other hand, he maintains apparently normal relations with his son, but at the same time he leads an unacknowledged, secret life "elsewhere", where confused, equivocal relations bind him to a strange, elusive woman, whose vision sometimes inspires feelings of filial love, sometimes reveals to him the bitter taste of a passion faded by time.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1970-11-25
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Once More
Overview: Louis is a family man, with a wife and young daughter, who discovers in mid-life that he is gay.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-05-27
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Subversion
Overview: A blind, paralyzed president uses his remarkable hearing and his corrupt daughter to keep his country in line. His beautiful, clever daughter works her own agenda while striving to be the equal of men. She appoints herself Chief of Firefighters and then commits arson to ensure that her job is needed.
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1979-05-28
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New York After Midnight
Overview: Monique is a 35 year old French woman, living in New York. The daughter of a French diplomat who has remarried, Monique has no financial worries, and holds a good job with a publishing firm. She finds relationships difficult, and frequently suffers acute depression. Her nights are filled with strange dreams, and apparitions of flashing lights.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-01-01
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La Grande Bouffe
Overview: Four friends gather at a villa with the intention of eating themselves to death.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1973-05-16
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Forget Me, Mandoline
Overview: The young and charming Mandoline, accountant of the advertising agency Publi-Pub, has stolen documents proving that the company kept double accounts. Remorseful when she wanted to pass this evidence to a tax inspector, she decides to put the documents back in the agency's safe, but does not really know how to go about it. Her friend Marie-Charlotte, a transvestite, helps him find a young safe-drilling man in his condition, who will help him open the safe - but of course, the matter is not so simple.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1976-03-03
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On the Lam
Overview: A young couple of burglars, waiting for trial, marry in jail. Annick writes down her observations of the women's ward. When she hears that her lover must serve a twice as long prison sentence, she plans their escape.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1971-09-29
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A Minute of Silence
Overview: In a dying French mining town near the German border, the last miners are preparing to strike. Marek and Mimmo, two young miners and friends, have different views on the impending strike.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1998-11-25
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Melancoly Baby
Overview: Olga is married to Laurent, who is devoted to his career and often leaves Olga at home alone when he travels away for work. Whilst she is rich and wants for nothing, she is terribly bored with life. When Laurent is working away she meets up with his colleague Pierre and through him meets Claude, who is unemployed and fed up of his situation. Can Olga and Claude help each other to get their lives back on track?
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1979-08-29
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To Each His Hell
Overview: After her daughter is kidnapped, a mother discovers that there can be something even worse after "the worst."
Genres: Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1977-02-02
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Why Not Us?
Overview: A wrestler and a bookseller disgraced by life fall in love with each other.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1981-06-14
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Question of Love
Overview: Architect Dumas dies from a bullet of his own gun in front of his house. The police suspect his young Swedish wife Catherine and her English lover Tom Hastings. After numerous interrogations, in which they entangle themselves in contradictions, they try to flee, but are soon both caught and brought to trial, he in England, she in France. Only when Catherine keeps on proclaiming her innocence, superintendent Corbier finally considers believing her.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1978-10-18
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4 Days in France
Overview: A man leaves everything behind to travel aimlessly through France, letting himself be guided only by the people and landscapes he encounters: four days and four nights of wandering, during which his lover tries to locate him via Grindr, a smartphone dating app.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2016-12-02
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Massacre of Pleasure
Overview: A detective narrates this story of police investigating three murders and discovering that their leads take them to the heart of a white slavery ring that is also in the drug trade. Men set up parties, invite young women, and then drug them, kidnap them, and sell them off to brothels.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1966-01-01
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Prends ton passe-montagne, on va à la plage
Overview: By chance, a band of merry friends is getting in command of a thalasso therapy center.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1983-01-12
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Snails in the Head
Overview: Following a recent divorce, Hélène Gallois, a well-known writer, meets Edouard Fournier in a specialized clinic where she is being treated. A kind of friendship is formed between them which evolves very quickly towards a sexual complicity ...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-09-10
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Knife+Heart
Overview: In the summer of 1979, gay porn producer Anne sets out to film her most ambitious film yet, but her actors are picked off, one by one, by a mysterious killer.
Genres: Horror Romance Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2018-06-27
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Jerk in Istanbul
Overview: Vincent And Gregoire have just won a lot a money. The latter wants the whole pile and flies away to Turkey where he meets a compatriot, Appoline, and her boss Samos.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1967-07-23
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Les parents ne sont pas simples cette année
Overview: Parents are not easy this year. That's what 16-year-old Marie realized when she saw the mess her father, a general practitioner, and her mother were in. But Marie is more interested in dancing. The arrival of Laurent, a young student, will reveal her passion for choreography and, as a result, awaken the unconscious but tenacious love she has for Paul, her childhood friend.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1984-02-08
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Loin du Léman
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2020-09-01
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I. You. They.
Overview: Little did this pretty brunette know when she applied for a babysitting job that her employer was an artist and that everything at his place differed from the outside world. What struck her the most was to find out that her boss had shrunk his wife and kept her in the fridge in order, as he said, to keep her safe from a hostile world!
Genres: Fantasy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1973-06-28
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My Other Husband
Overview: A woman leaves her husband and marries another man without divorcing the first.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1983-09-21
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Cold Lands
Overview: A young Frenchman of Arab descent, Djamel, becomes convinced that his long-lost father is a rich factory owner in Grenoble. When the man coldly rejects him, Djamel plots a revenge that will implicate the man's closeted gay son.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1999-12-01
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Femmes Fatales
Overview: Two men, fortyish, worn out by their wives, abandon everything to go and live in the back of beyond. There they meet a truculent priest, a boozer, Émile who recalls them to life's simple pleasures. Calm is what they want. But soon their example inspires thousands of disorientated males...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1976-02-11
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My Best Part
Overview: Jérémie, a young man reaching a breaking point on all fronts, decides to leave behind Paris and return to Limosin, to the home of his intrusive mother.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2020-10-28
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Il faut que je l'aime
Overview: A young woman named Juliette reminisces a series of recent confrontations. We hear, off-screen, the voices of her loved ones, her mother, her former lover, who burst in just as she was making the decisions that affected her life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1994-01-30
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The Adventures of Zadig
Overview: In the time of King Moabdar, in ancient Babylon, the young philosopher, Zadig, undergoes many misadventures.
Genres: Comedy Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1970-12-29
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San-Antonio ne pense qu'à ça
Overview: Walter Klozett is a spy arrested and imprisoned by the French Police who know him in possession of stolen booty which the French secret services would like to recover at all costs.
Genres: Comedy Crime Fantasy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1981-05-20
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Demented
Overview: It’s summer and the beginning of the long vacation period for eleven-year-old Martin, who lives on a farm, and, at a loss, observes his family’s disintegration : his mother lives locked-up in her room ; his older brother, who he adores, drowns himself in drink ; and his father, dominated by Martin’s grandmother, is a helpless onlooker to the family’s collapse. Although Mistigri, his cat, and Malika, the Moroccan maid, afford him some comfort, Martin is determined to put an end to this confusion.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2006-10-07
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