Hippolyte Girardot
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Biography: Hippolyte Girardot (born Frédéric Girardot; 10 October 1955) is a French actor, film director and screenwriter Description above from the Wikipedia article Hippolyte Girardot, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine, France
Birthday: October 09, 1955
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Gender: Male
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Babyphone
Overview: Freshly installed in a country house with her husband and their 6-month-old son, Agathe discovers a child's bedroom that had previously been locked behind a partition. Untouched, nothing seems to have moved since the 90s. Even the old baby monitor abandoned in a drawer is still functional. Buoyed by her husband's enthusiasm, the young mother agrees to install their son there, at the price of hanging on to the device, listening for the slightest noise. But when strange emanations sow doubt and confusion in Agathe's mind, she will have to sort out her new environment, her latent fatigue and her maternal anxieties.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2023-01-13
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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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Lady Chatterley
Overview: In the Chatterley country estate, monotonous days follow one after the other for Constance, trapped by her marriage and her sense of duty. During spring, deep in the heart of Wragby forest, she encounters Parkin, the estate’s gamekeeper. A tale of an encounter, a difficult apprenticeship, a slow awakening to sensuality for her, a long return to life for him. Or how love is but one with experience and transformation.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2006-11-01
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Fort Saganne
Overview: In 1911, a willful and determined man from peasant stock named Charles Saganne enlists in the military and is assigned to the Sahara Desert under the aristocratic Colonel Dubreuilh.
Genres: War Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1984-05-11
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Manon of the Spring
Overview: In this, the sequel to Jean de Florette, Manon has grown into a beautiful young shepherdess living in the idyllic Provencal countryside. She plots vengeance on the men who greedily conspired to acquire her father's land years earlier.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1986-11-19
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The Astronaut
Overview: An aeronautical engineer at Ariane Espace, Jim has devoted himself for years to a secret project: building his own rocket and accomplishing the first manned space flight as an amateur. But to realize his dream, he must learn to share it.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2023-02-15
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Quiet Chaos
Overview: Pietro is a successful businessman with a wife and a daughter. One day he helps his brother save two women from drowning at the beach. When he returns home he finds that his wife has died. Now Pietro has to take care of his daughter, Claudia. When he drives her to school soon after, he decides to wait for her all day in front of the school, and soon that's what he does every day.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2008-02-08
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One Day You'll Understand
Overview: A man endeavors to collect memories of his grandparents who died in a concentration camp during the Holocaust.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2008-01-01
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Premonition
Overview: A Parisian lawyer moves to a working-class neighborhood in an attempt to shed his social conditioning and bourgeois values.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2006-10-04
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A Christmas Tale
Overview: When their regal matriarch falls ill, the troubled Vuillard family come together for a hesitant Christmastime reunion. Among them is rebellious ne'er-do-well Henri and the uptight Elizabeth. Together under the same roof for the first time in many years, their intricate, long denied resentments and yearnings emerge again.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2008-05-16
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Flight of the Red Balloon
Overview: The first part in a new series of films produced by Musée d'Orsay, 'Flight of the Red Balloon' tells the story of a French family as seen through the eyes of a Chinese student. The film was shot in August and September 2006 on location in Paris. This is Hou Hsiao-Hsien's first Western film. It is based on the classic French short The Red Balloon directed by Albert Lamorisse.
Genres: Family Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2007-05-17
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Jump Tomorrow
Overview: When shy, straitlaced George meets vivacious, adorable Alicia, he's instantly smitten -- which puts his imminent arranged marriage in jeopardy. He vows to do the right thing, but then he falls in with Gerard, a lovesick, voluble Frenchman who overcomes George's sense of propriety and takes him on a meandering road trip to amour.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-11-09
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Modigliani
Overview: Set in Paris in 1919, biopic centers on the life of late Italian artist Amedeo Modigliani, focusing on his last days as well as his rivalry with Pablo Picasso. Modigliani, a Jew, has fallen in love with Jeanne, a young and beautiful Catholic girl. The couple has an illegitimate child, and Jeanne's bigoted parents send the baby to a faraway convent to be raised by nuns.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-05-18
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Spy(ies)
Overview: In London, an airport baggage handler is forced by French and British intelligence agents to seduce the wife of a businessman with ties to Syrian terrorists.
Genres: Drama Romance Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2009-01-28
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The Dinner Guest
Overview: Fifty years old, three years past of unemployment, benefits decreasing very quickly... Gerard is at the end of the rope when a position is offered him in Indonesia. To win the favor of his new employer, Gerard invites him to dinner at home. Fatal Error ! Terrified at the idea of not being up to par, his wife Colette begs Alexandre, their neighbor to help. Communication guru, Alexander accepts the challenge and gives a makeover to the couple in twenty-four hours. Apartment, decoration, lifestyle, dinner menu, uniforms, culture... Everything !
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2007-09-19
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Love Without Pity
Overview: 25 year-old Hippo doesn't have a job, doesn't study either but lives from the money his younger brother earns with dealing and from occasional Poker winnings.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1989-11-22
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The Rashevski Tango
Overview: Adolphe 'Dolfo' Rashevski travels to Israel with grandson Ric, but his brother, orthodox rabbi Samuel 'Shmouel, refuses to come attend their fellow Auschwitz survivor sister Rosa's funeral. Back in their home, the whole well-integrated family and their 'gojim' (non-Jewish and would-be) partners regularly wrestle with the meaning of Jewish blood, traditions and religion. For one it seems the way to gain a wife, for others the bomb under or the obstacle for a marriage. Yet love tends to conquer all but death.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2003-09-03
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When I Was 5, I Killed Myself
Overview: This film is about Gils, a young boy (about ten) in a juvenile mental hospital in 1950's France. Flashbacks recount his conflicts with authority and his strong relationship with Jessica, a similarly rebellious schoolmate. Simultaneously, a compassionate doctor develops a trusting friendship with Gils, which a higher-ranking authoritarian doctor tries to thwart.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1994-02-02
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Resolution 819
Overview: Resolution 819: Adopted by the Security Council at its 3199th meeting on April 16th, 1993. Resolution 819 tells the compelling story of a young investigator sent to Bosnia in 1995 to investigate the disappearance of 8,000 men in Srebrenica and eventually bring the perpetrators of the massacre to justice at the International Criminal Court. Benoît Magimel stars as Jacques Calvez, a man of integrity who refuses to let politicians, mobsters or bureaucrats stand in his way. He receives valuable help in his quest from Lherbier (Hippolyte Girardot), a French secret service agent, and above all from beautiful forensic anthropologist Clara Gorska (Karolina Gruszka)
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2008-10-27
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Kings and Queen
Overview: Shortly before her wedding, art gallery director Nora travels from Paris to Grenoble to visit her preteen son, Elias, who is spending time with her aging professor father, Louis, recently diagnosed with terminal cancer. During her stay, she reaches out to her former lover, Ismaël, a viola player and father figure to Elias who has been committed against his will to a mental hospital. Ismaël, however, has his own problems to sort out.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2004-12-22
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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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L'amant magnifique
Overview: Antoine and Viviane manage an equestrian exploitation on a wild plateau. Viviane, overcome with boredom, finds life and passion in the arms of Vincent, a solitary groom.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1986-06-11
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The Perfume of Yvonne
Overview: It is the summer of 1958 in wealthy Lake Geneva, where an enigmatic young Frenchman begins an affair with a beautiful starlet under the watchful eye of her flamboyant elderly mentor. But in a season full of secrets, is truth the most elusive passion of all?
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1994-03-24
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Made in Paris
Overview: Diane lives with publisher Hermann but everything is spoiled when Worms, Hermann’s loyal author and friend, reveals in his new book the affair he once had with Diane, in a highly subjective manner. She soon discovers the contents of the work, which Hermann tries to hide from her, and takes on a lawyer to defend her privacy. But this is only the beginning of a mess that simply gets worse and worse, leading to an unexpected, brutal ending.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2006-11-29
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La femme de Jean
Overview: Nadine's existence changes dramatically when her husband leaves her after 15 years. With the help of her seventeen-year-old teenage son Rémi, who is paternal and protective, she goes back to work.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1974-03-30
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The Moustache
Overview: One day, on a whim, Marc decides to shave off the moustache he's worn all of his adult life. He waits patiently for his wife's reaction, but neither she nor his friends seem to notice. Stranger still, when he finally tells them, they all insist he never had a moustache. Is Marc going mad? Is he the victim of some elaborate conspiracy? Or has something in the world's order gone terribly awry?
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2005-06-09
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The Conquest
Overview: A look at French president Nicolas Sarkozy's rise to power.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2011-05-18
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Out of Life
Overview: Patrick Perrault, a photo-journalist covering the war in Beirut in the late 1980s, is himself caught up in the hostilities when one day he is picked up and bundled into a car at gun-point. Blind-folded, he is taken to an unknown location where he discovers that he is being taken hostage by Lebanese guerrillas.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1991-05-15
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My Place in the Sun
Overview: Three couples and a single guy, from different social and career backgrounds, and of various ages, struggle with finding happiness in their lives.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2007-03-14
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House of 9
Overview: Nine strangers wake up in a house with no recollection how they got there and no way out. The voice on the PA introduces them to a grisly game they must play. The prize is $5 million and their life.
Genres: Thriller Drama Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-06-19
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Yuki & Nina
Overview: When Yuki finds out that her parents are separating and she is moving to Japan with her mother, she and her best friend Nina devise ways to reunite the feuding adults.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2009-11-27
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Sleeping Sickness
Overview: Ebbo and Vera Velten have spent the better part of the past twenty years living in different African countries. Ebbo is the manager of a sleeping sickness programme. His work is fulfilling. Vera, however, feels increasingly lost in Yaounde’s ex-pat community. She can’t bear the separation from her 14-year-old daughter, Helen, who is attending boarding school in Germany. Ebbo must give up his life in Africa or he risks losing the woman he loves. But his fear of returning to a land now remote to him increases with each passing day. Years later. Alex Nzila, a young French doctor of Congolese origin, travels to Cameroon to evaluate a development project. It’s been a long time since he set foot on this continent, but, instead of finding new prospects, he encounters a destructive, lost man. Like a phantom, Ebbo slips away from his evaluator.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2011-06-23
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Descent Into Hell
Overview: The marriage of the famous writer Alan and his young wife Lola is in a crisis. On a vacation in Haiti Lola wants to decide if their relationship still has a future...
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1986-11-06
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Hands in the Air
Overview: March 22, 2067. At dawn of life, Milana remembers her life, when she was a young Chechen immigrant in Paris, struggling for a better life along with her school friends.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2010-07-06
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Barjo
Overview: The narrator, "Barjo" (nutcase, crap artist), is an obsessive simpleton, given to filling his notebook with verbatim dialog, observed trivia, and oddball speculation on human behavior and the end of the world. When his house burns, he moves in with his twin sister, Fanfan -- an impulsive, quixotic egoist -- and her husband, Charles, the Aluminum King. Charles becomes the focus of the film, as his wife and brother-in-law bewilder him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1992-05-12
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Où avais-je la tête ?
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Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2008-01-23
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Crime Is Our Business
Overview: Loosely based on "4.50 from Paddington" by Agatha Christie.
Genres: Comedy Crime Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2008-10-02
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You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet
Overview: From beyond the grave, celebrated playwright Antoine d'Anthac gathers together all his friends who have appeared over the years in his play "Eurydice." These actors watch a recording of the work performed by a young acting company, La Compagnie de la Colombe. Do love, life, death and love after death still have any place on a theater stage? It's up to them to decide. And the surprises have only just begun...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2012-09-01
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Le Bon Plaisir
Overview: Claire's handbag is stolen. It contained a letter written ten years previously by the man who is now the French President. In the letter, he urges his pregnant mistress to have an abortion. Claire immediately alerts the President's men. From that moment, the machinery of state swings into action.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1984-01-18
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Capital
Overview: The head of a giant European investment bank desperately clings to power when an American hedge fund company tries to buy them out.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2012-11-14
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1914 the Glorious Summer
Overview: An old aristocrat, short of money, who does not accept the new world ruled by the bourgeois class ,epitomized by the industrialist and by the doctor who finally grabs the the aristocrat's castle which soon will be turned into a hospital.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1996-08-21
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Follow My Gaze
Overview: A long parade of actors and actresses pop up in an unconnected series of skits, vignettes, and sight gags in this comedy anthology by Jean Curtelin. Among the sketches performed is one with Jean Carmet playing a man from the sticks woefully burdened with the challenge of getting through a dog food commercial on less than one tank of intelligible French. Another skit shows a silent duel between an airport custodian and an automatic door, while another with the renowned Michel Galabru sets up a strange teacher-student exchange.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1986-04-23
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Playing 'In the Company of Men'
Overview: A troupe of actors rehearse a play. In the play-within-the-film, an ambitious son and his distant father fight for control of an armaments firm and are pushed to eventual destruction by dangerous outside forces and traitorous aides.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2003-05-15
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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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An Open Heart
Overview: Mila and Javier, both renowned surgeons and both passionate about their work, have been madly in love for the past 10 years. They have always taken great care to preserve their extraordinary love for each other and refuse to succumb to the routine of everyday living. But Mila’s unexpected pregnancy, combined with increasing pressure from work at the hospital, drives Javier to drink more heavily and he ends up being suspended. Faced with his demons, Javier drifts further and further away from Mila. Yet, when their relationship is under serious threat, Javier is ready to do whatever it takes to win Mila back.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2012-08-08
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The Edge
Overview: After studying in Paris, the young doctor François moves to Beauval, where single-family houses are lined up monotonously. He quickly becomes the focus of a group of young people, led by the charismatic Cédric and Matthieu, his assistant. The gang tries to escape their boredom with dangerous games at the edge of the forest. But things become bitterly serious when the body of a twelve-year-old girl is found and François is suspected.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2011-04-27
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Top Floor Left Wing
Overview: Like every morning, François Echeveria, a bailiff, should have been able to make a seizure in a suburban city, then quietly return home. But that day, fate decided otherwise. Due to a misunderstanding, he is taken hostage by an impoverished father and his wild son...
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2010-11-15
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Haute Cuisine
Overview: The story of Danièle Delpeuch and how she was appointed as the private chef for François Mitterrand.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2012-09-17
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Trois couples en quête d'orages
Overview: Olivier, Rémi and Pascale are three friends who have known each other since childhood. As they approach middle age, they each experience something of a crisis in their lives. Olivier, a doctor before becoming wheelchair bound, faces a bleak future after the break up of two relationships. The fact that Rémi and his wife Estelle are unable to have children puts an increasing strain on their marriage. And Pascale, a filmmaker, is on the point of leaving her husband to pursue an affair with an opportunistic career politician.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-04-27
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Toxic Affair
Overview: In this erstwhile comedy, Penelope (Isabelle Adjani) is already sufficiently unsettled by the fact that she is no longer a top model, and must cast around for another occupation. When her boyfriend leaves her, she becomes quite hysterical, conjuring up schemes for revenge, contemplating suicide, and so on. These dramatics eventually exasperate her best friend Sophie (Clementine Celarie) so much that she contemplates killing Penelope, her ex-boyfriend, or the two of them together, just to stop the whining.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1993-05-26
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The Girl in the Air
Overview: Who would have expected Brigitte to marry a prisoner with a long sentence in the first place? In this romantic action movie, that is only the first in a long line of surprising actions by the young woman. Somehow, she manages to get hooked to the young prisoner before realizing that he'll be locked up for another three or four decades. She decides that this is much too long to wait to spend time with her sweetheart and decides to learn how to fly a helicopter. Why? So she can fly in and take him out of his prison yard, which is exactly what she does, thrilling romantics all over France and seriously upsetting the authorities. This award-winning film is based on a true incident from 1986.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1992-05-26
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Love After Love
Overview: Lola is an independent woman, a professional writer with 2 men on a string. Both men are married with children. When the men, and Lola, face having to make choices, Lola's comfortable life becomes less appealing.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1992-04-15
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Drôle de genre
Overview: Dominique Bazin is a 40-year-old woman, business manager, married to Camille, English teacher. They have three children, including an infant. Dominique, a modern day superwoman, divides her time between her lover Maxime, her work meetings and her family life. Camille is a perfect housekeeper and a caring father, who unknowingly suffers from his routine lifestyle.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2003-04-11
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Life of Riley
Overview: In the midst of rehearsals for a new play, amateur dramatics proponents Colin and Kathryn receive the shattering news that their friend George is fatally ill and only has a few months to live.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2014-03-26
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Kidon
Overview: "Kidon" begins in the morning of the 18th of February 2010 in Tel-Aviv when the whole world wakes up discovering, on the front page of all the newspapers, pictures of the Mossad agents caught while killing Mahmoud al Mabhouh in Dubai a month earlier. It was the first time that simple security cameras of a hotel caught secret agents red-handed, what's more Israeli agents. But without doubt, the most surprised of all were the Mossad leaders who were the only ones to know for sure that the 3 men and the woman, whose faces were in all the newsrooms of the world, had nothing to do with them. From then on, a race against time is undertaken hoping to understand why everything is aiming at them.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: he
Release Date: 2013-08-24
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Off and Running
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2008-04-16
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Les pyramides bleues
Overview: Elise is content being the lover of Alex, a wealthy magnate who lavishes her with attention and money. When she gets religious and decides to hide from him in a French convent, Alex hires agents to bring her back.
Genres: Comedy Mystery Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1988-01-02
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La rupture
Overview: Upon the sudden death of President Georges Pompidou, the French right is taken aback. Who will succeed him? It is finally Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, aged 48, elected with the support of Jacques Chirac, who is then appointed Prime Minister. Their alliance seems strong, but it will quickly crack.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2013-11-26
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Jésus
Overview: Evocation of the life of Jesus Christ.
Genres: History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1999-12-15
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To Life
Overview: Helen, Rose and Lili have survived the Holocaust and have never seen each other since the war has ended. In 1960, they meet again in Berck, France. They learn to enjoy together simple pleasures in life: nice meals, ballads on the beach, playing in the waves.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2014-11-26
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Si j'étais elle
Overview: Alex is the perfect snapshot of misogynist some of its charm: he leaves his wife Léa. Selfish, indifferent, absent, he combines all handicaps to Léa's eyes, to end, leaves him.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2004-12-15
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Bird People
Overview: An overstressed American businessman and a French chambermaid make a connection at an airport hotel in Paris.
Genres: Drama Fantasy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2014-06-04
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La Chartreuse de Parme
Overview: The love story of two youths during the 1700s. Fabrizio, a boy who was supposed to be a noble and part of Napoleons army, and Clelia a beautiful girl from an important noble family of high society Parma. Their love became impossible because of the interference of other characters with personal desires.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2012-03-04
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Le Voyage en pyjama
Overview: 40-something Victor, humanities professor and amateur meteorologist, is a madcap, a friendly dabbler, who lives day by day, alongside is wife Anne.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2024-01-17
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The Girl King
Overview: A portrait of the brilliant, extravagant Kristina of Sweden, queen from age six, who fights the conservative forces that are against her ideas to modernize Sweden and who have no tolerance for her awakening sexuality.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-12-11
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Just a Couple of Days
Overview: After being reassigned from music to field reporting, a critic goes to a refugee camp near Paris during an evacuation. He experiences police violence and is thrust into becoming the face of the refugee cause.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2024-04-03
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Vivre c'est mieux que mourir
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2006-05-05
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First Name: Carmen
Overview: The protagonist is Carmen X, a sexy female member of a terrorist gang. She asks her uncle Jean, a washed-up film director if she can borrow his beachside house to make a film with some friends, but they are in fact planning to rob a bank. During the robbery she falls in love with a security guard. The film intercuts between Carmen's escape with the guard, her uncle's attempt to make a comeback film, and a string quartet attempting to perform Beethoven.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1983-09-04
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L'Amour ou presque
Overview: Without warning, Mélie disembarks on the cargo ship where her father has the sailor's blues. He remembers his drifts and his friend Max who used to get him into some crazy situations. He remembers Alice and Luc whom he decided to avenge. He has his grenade ready. But Melie has just arrived.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1985-11-20
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Le Destin de Juliette
Overview: Juliette is a young woman who has grown up on a farm that is now under economic siege. In order to save her farm and her family, Juliette is forced into a marriage of convenience with Marcel , a morose and laconic railway worker whom she does not even know. Now that her own life is permanently changed, her sacrifice does not ultimately help her family and with that sorrow added to her lonely existence, she is trapped into remaining married because of social pressures and soon enough, the birth of a child. There must surely be a way out for her at some point, but when and how that will happen seems completely up to fate alone.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1983-09-21
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Des gens qui passent
Overview: Wonderful piece of film noire. Great acting, París, well, as beautiful as ever. Love the plot gaps, force you to thunk. To imagine. The whole story is never revealed. Highly recommended. Marie is delicious.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2009-11-20
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The Target
Overview: A young French sailor falls in love with a Russian tourist during a passion-filled three-day furlough, but is whisked away for a months worth of submarine duty before he can learn her last name and Moscow address. When he is finally freed again, he embarks upon a search for his lost love. Unfortunately, while his aim is true, his timing is off. His first stop is the broadcast headquarters of a major television network. He arrives shortly before the place blasted apart by a bomb. Later, he goes to the apartment of a noted talk-show host in hopes of receiving air-time during which he will plead for information concerning his lost love. But things don't come out as planned for somehow, the sailor ends up considered the prime suspect in the bombing while the real-life terrorist and his cohort, who happen to be in the same apartment building in hopes of knocking off a crooked judge.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1997-04-23
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Adèle et Kamel
Overview: Kamel is an adolescent who has always lived in the streets.After the theft of a scooter Kamel has to chose between the prison or a social work.Kamel chooses the social work.His duty is to take care of Adèle, a retired old lady with Alzheimer condition.A very difficult duty because Adèle escapes from her apartment every time and walks alone through the town.The first days of social work are a true challenge for Kamel.Besides Adèle's son, who is very occupied doesn't have any time for his mother and wants to put her in a special retirement home.Little by little Adèle and Kamel will know and appreciate each other.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2005-11-23
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La face
Overview: Paul Berthier, an ambitious public prosecutor, is witness to the accidental drowning of a young girl in the Charente but does nothing to help. It starts to look like the girl was murdered, and the case lands on Berthier's desk. Suspicion turns to Guillaume Vauban, the rich son of a local industrialist and ex-boyfriend of the dead girl. Paul Berthier finds himself entangled in a web of lies as he opens the case against Guillaume, who has now been arrested. With a conscience far from clear, Berthier agrees with the judge's decision to remand the young man in custody. Through cowardice Berthier clings to his reputation, determined to save face at any cost. Drunk with judicial power, he's caught in a downward spiral.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2016-05-24
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2018 Der Ölcrash
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Genres: Documentary Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2005-02-15
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The Robin Hoods of the Poor
Overview: Two brothers in impoverished Cantal steal money from the banks with the assistance of the locals to distribute it amongst the poor. The police are befuddled until Commissaire Viennot takes over.
Genres: Crime TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2011-10-25
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Ismael's Ghosts
Overview: Just as the disheveled and alcoholic filmmaker Ismaël embarks on a difficult new film project, his life is sent into a tailspin. His wife Carlotta, presumed dead for 20 years, come crashing back into his life creating chaos in his work and his current romantic relationship with the starry-eyed astronomer Sylvia.
Genres: Drama Mystery Romance Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2017-05-17
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Long Live the Republic
Overview: A group of young unemployed people from Le Mans (France) decide to create a new political party.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1997-11-05
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L'Aurore boréale
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Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2013-08-23
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Benedict Ironbreaker: The Red Taxis
Overview: At first sight, 10-year-old Benoît Brisefer, seems like any other little boy his age. However, Benoît is endowed with amazing force. All the bandits who cross his path learn this to their own cost. But, unfortunately, no one is perfect... As soon as he catches a cold, Benoît loses his extraordinary physical abilities. Hence he never takes off the woollen scarf wrapped around his neck. Brave and very determined, he doesn't hesitate a second to take action to defend his friends. So, when Poilonez - a well known crook - and his gang decide to focus on Mr. Dussiflard, his taxi driver friend, Benoît does all that he can to thwart his plans.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2014-12-17
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L'Oiseau rare
Overview: A woman in her forties takes stock of her past years. She has led a full life, with lots of outings with her friends. She has certainly not had time to be bored and has built the life that suits her. Professionally, she has an interesting job and her friends find her beautiful and funny. The only shadow in this almost idyllic picture is the absence of a child. Unfortunately, she has not yet found the rare pearl who would be a perfect father for her descendants. Determined to remedy the situation, she sets out to find the ideal man. Several male representatives are on the starting line.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2001-05-14
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Le Viol
Overview: 21 August 1974. In Marseille, two Belgian tourists, Nicole and Malia, are savagely attacked and raped by three men. Their attackers claim that the women consented and are allowed to remain free. Though their friends and family advise them to forget the ordeal, Nicole and Malia instead decide to fight. Helped by their lawyer, Gisèle Halimi, they request that the attackers be judged at the assize court. On 8 May 1978, after a long battle, they finally obtain justice. A trial which made history as until then rape had been considered simply as a misdemeanor, whereas now it became a crime.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2017-09-19
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On the Sly
Overview: Franck, a former young hopeful at the Nantes soccer club, has stayed on to help the team for ten years after an injury,but becomes especially frustrated when he meets a seductive young woman.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2018-01-17
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Where I've Never Lived
Overview: Where I've never been to live, Francesca's emotional conflicts, 50, is the only daughter of a famous Turin architect, to whom she visits only on rare occasions. For many years, Francesca lives in Paris with her teenage daughter and her husband Benoît, a financier on her sixty, apparently reserved but paternal and protective about her. Due to a domestic accident that forces the elderly father to bed, the woman flees to Turin to take her parents in the design of a villa on a lake for a young couple. At work he meets architect Massimo, his peer-minded career and engaged in an open relationship with independent Sandra. After a tough first approach, Massimo and Francesca create a strong professional tune that leads to a deep and passionate feeling. For the first time in life, both will have to really confront themselves and their most authentic destinies ...
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2017-10-12
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The Patriots
Overview: Ariel, a young French Jew, decides to leave his family to go to Israel and secretly become an agent of Mossad, the Israeli secret service. After years of training, his first mission is in Paris to steal secrets from Remy Prieur, a French atomic scientist.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1994-05-18
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Parallel Parking
Overview: A pediatrician's chance encounter with an old acquaintance inspires her ill-timed confession to a past drunken sexual daliance while her husband looks for a parking spot.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2007-01-31
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L'Amour nu
Overview: An educated woman ,with good prospects falls in love with an oceanographer .But breast cancer strikes : will she remain a true woman ,in spite of a mastectomy?
Genres: Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1981-10-07
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French Lovers
Overview: A woman is waiting for the bus. A man in a car offers her a lift but she rejects till he points that it is Sunday and the bus is not running on Sundays. In their short travel together through the streets of a deserted Paris the man tries to seduce the woman without apparent success.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1985-01-01
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Mama Weed
Overview: A translator working for the police gets involved in the other side of drug dealing.
Genres: Crime Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2020-09-09
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Comme les doigts de la main
Overview: Narrator falls in love with a beautiful girl. Unfortunately she isn’t alone: five guys follow her every time no matter where she goes – to work, in park or in bed.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1985-01-02
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Le Tigre du Jardin des plantes
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Genres: Fantasy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1982-01-01
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An Irrepressible Woman
Overview: 1940, Jeanne Reichenbach turns her back on a peaceful life to link her destiny to Léon Blum. She's been loving him since her teenage years, and is ready to sacrifice her freedom to mary him at Buchenwald, where he's held prisoner. They will survive together.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2020-01-15
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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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Nos amis les flics
Overview: Une bande de jeunes voyous inoffensifs vivote de petits coups. Après un braquage loupé, ils se trouvent dans l'impossibilité de régler leurs dettes au caïd du coin, qui, pour le rembourser, leur propose le cambriolage d'une fondation d'art moderne. Mais rien ne se passe comme prévu et tout s'enchaîne... mal.
Genres: Comedy Action Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2004-06-18
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The French Dispatch
Overview: The staff of an American magazine based in France puts out its last issue, with stories featuring an artist sentenced to life imprisonment, student riots, and a kidnapping resolved by a chef.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-10-21
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Inspector Blunder
Overview: A detective, fresh out of the academy (lowest mark in class), gets the assignment to bodyguard a spoiled rich girl reporter. She's been interviewed on TV and has questioned the virility of a mobster who kidnaps her later.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1980-12-03
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L'Affaire Ben Barka
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Genres: History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2008-01-21
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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 Black Book
Overview: The Black Book, drafted during World War II, gathers numerous unique historical testimonies, in an effort to document Nazi abuses against Jews in the USSR . Initially supported by the regime and aimed at providing evidence during the executioners’ trials in the post-war era, the Black Book was eventually banned and most of its authors executed on Stalin’s order. Told through the voices of its most famous instigators, soviet intellectuals Vassilli Grossman, Ilya Ehrenburg and Solomon Mikhoels, the documentary, provides a detailed account of the tragic destiny of this cursed book and puts the Holocaust and Stalinism in a new light.
Genres: Documentary History Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2020-12-13
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That's Fine
Overview: In Faenza, Italy, a dysfunctional family gathers for occasional dinners, and as untold truths are revealed, things gradually become rocky.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2021-03-26
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Un moment d'inattention
Overview: Can a loving relationship of eight years go down the drain because of a single moment of carelessness? Virginie and Laurent have always treasured fidelity, but Laurent's opinions and appetites are starting to shift with the times.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1986-09-17
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Gustave Courbet, the Origins of His World
Overview: Gustave Courbet defied the conventions of classical French painting to become an innovator of Realism. This documentary by filmmaker Romain Goupil explores Courbet's life and work, revealing the fiery spirit that drove him to lead rather than follow.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2007-01-01
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Les Héritiers
Overview: A yacht, drifting aimlessly off the shores of Brittany. Empty. Diane Granger, managing director of a renowned crisis management consultancy, had gone out sailing alone. What happened? The firm's young consultants, the "heirs", find themselves left to their own devices, forced to confront a pitiless competition alone, without Diane.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2021-09-13
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Une affaire
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
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The Prominents
Overview: Centers on a group of Nazi Germany's most prominent prisoners as they are transported across Europe to be used as bargaining chips in the German surrender.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
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I Got a Woman
Overview: Yvan Attal's first short film.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-01-01
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