Sara Martins
Also Known As: Sarah Martins, سارا مارتینز
Biography: Sara Martins (born 19 August 1977) is a Portuguese-born French actress of Cape Verdean descent. She is known in France for her roles on television and in film and theatre. She also appeared as Detective Sergeant Camille Bordey in the joint British-French crime comedy-drama Death in Paradise, filmed in Guadeloupe, a French overseas department. Sara was born in Faro, in the Portuguese region of Algarve, and is of Cape Verdean descent. She moved to France at the age of three. She studied ballet in her youth and was the first person of African descent to join the Lyon Opera. She learned that she would be unable to advance to the Paris Opera, where the corps was expected to look alike and there were no other black dancers. Instead, she received her Baccalauréat with a theatre option. After receiving a DEUG in law, at age 20 she studied at the École de théâtre Les Enfants Terribles in Paris. Then, she completed an acting degree at the extremely selective French National Academy of Dramatic Arts. She learned English through U2 lyrics as a teenager.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Faro, Portugal
Birthday: August 19, 1977
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Gender: Female
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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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Flowing Home
Overview: The intertwining fates of two Vietnamese sisters who sustain a wartime relationship through written correspondence.
Genres: Animation War Drama Family
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2021-11-05
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Orpailleur
Overview: 18 ans après avoir quitté sa terre natale, Rod, jeune Parisien d´origine guyanaise, rentre au pays suite à la disparition de son frère aîné. Gonz, son ami d´enfance des cités, fait partie du voyage. À Cayenne, la révélation d´un douloureux secret de famille pousse Rod dans une quête effrénée de vérité. Il fait la connaissance de Yann, une jeune guide de tourisme écologique très remontée contre les méfaits de l’orpaillage clandestin. Tous les trois seront dès lors pris dans un engrenage, entraînés au bout fleuve, au coeur de la forêt amazonienne, dans le milieu hostile et archaïque des orpailleurs clandestins...
Genres: Adventure Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-03-12
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Little White Lies
Overview: Despite a traumatic event, a group of friends decide to go ahead with their annual beach vacation. Their relationships, convictions, sense of guilt and friendship are sorely tested. They are finally forced to own up to the little white lies they've been telling each other.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2010-10-20
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Mensch
Overview: A 35 ans, Sam est un casseur de coffres hors pair. Entre la garde de son petit garçon qu'il élève seul, son grand-père qui rêverait de le voir rejoindre l'entreprise familiale, sa petite amie qui se lasse de ses mensonges, il essaie désespérément de devenir un Mensch, un homme bien.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2009-01-02
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Les amateurs
Overview: In a suburb of Paris, the clumsy efforts of two friends in their twenties to make themselves loved by two young students.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2004-01-14
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Un alibi
Overview: A group of friends who have known each other for many years meet at Max and Lucie's house to celebrate Lucie's birthday. When they arrive, the three guests discover Max kneeling in front of the body of his wife who has been murdered. He is sure that the police will charge him because everything accuses him. Convinced of his innocence, his friends decide to give him an alibi. But the investigation tightens around Max...
Genres: Crime Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2022-04-26
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Coup de Chance
Overview: Fanny and Jean have everything of an ideal couple: fulfilled in their professional life, they live in a magnificent apartment in the beautiful districts of Paris and seem to be in love as on the first day. But when Fanny crosses, by chance, Alain, a former high school friend, she is immediately capsized. They see each other again very quickly and get closer and closer.
Genres: Romance Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2023-09-15
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The Marquis
Overview: Thomas Gardesse, a traveling alarm systems salesman, is arrested for a minor offense and sentenced to six months imprisonment. To win the respect of his fellow inmates, he claims he is "The Marquis," a brilliant robber whose identity has remained a mystery. Two weeks before his release, an armed robber named Quentin Tasseau helps him escape and takes him to Manila so he can take part in a robbery whose mastermind requires the talents of the Marquis.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2011-03-09
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Autopsy
Overview: Eric and Sarah are detectives who are investigating the murder of a professor which it seems like a gay hate crime. Married Eric becomes attracted to the pathologist, Emmanuel.
Genres: Drama Romance Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2007-04-11
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Beyond the Ocean
Overview: Journey of an african migrant through Europe.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2006-07-02
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Fragile(s)
Overview: Six characters cross paths in Paris and Lisbon.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-06-20
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Last Blood
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2011-02-02
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Une idée en l'air
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2014-02-14
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Above Suspicion
Overview: Valérie, a youthful 40, is an active, exemplary woman. A psychiatrist by trade, she is also a perfect mother, wife, and parishioner. And yet, Valérie is also a murderer.
Genres: Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2011-12-02
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Ne quittez pas !
Overview: Félix Mandel, an internationally renowned astrophysicist, is married with a four-year-old son and often has his head in the clouds.
Genres: Fantasy Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2004-08-18
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Par amour
Overview: Nicole Doucet is a gourmet chef. Everything is going well professionally for the young woman. Guillaume, her son, is a former drug addict whom she has lost sight of. The day he returns to her restaurant, she discovers that he is married to a woman much older than him. Nicole is suspicious of this idyll and fears that Guillaume will fall back into the infernal spiral of drugs.
Genres: Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2003-05-14
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Profil non conforme
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2011-01-01
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The Concert
Overview: A former world-famous conductor of the Bolshoï orchestra, known as "The Maëstro", Andreï Filipov had seen his career publicly broken by Leonid Brezhnev for hiring Jewish musicians and now works cleaning the concert hall where he once directed. One day, he intercepts an official invitation from the prestigious Théâtre du Châtelet. Through a series of mad antics, he reunites his old orchestra, now composed of old alcoholic musicians, and flies to perform in Paris and complete the Tchaikovsky concerto interrupted 30 years earlier. For the concerto, he engages a young violin soloist with whom he has an unexpected connection.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2009-11-04
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Leila
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Genres: Music Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2011-02-23
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Bhaï bhaï
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2005-11-05
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La veuve Tatouée
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2008-10-30
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The Botanist
Overview: Two musicians who play for tips at a Portuguese train station find a magical book left by a passenger in a rush to board a train. The musicians walk across the Alentejo region of Portugal in search of the passenger. This leads to a walking journey of beautiful fields, local towns, and the Alentejo countryside. The is a wonderful film of two friends who explore a magical country. It is charming and has elements of a dreamlike fantasy.
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Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2006-10-01
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My Friends
Overview: Manon, Aurore and Marie would like to represent their school at the Youth Challenge “Dance Special” organized by Paris’s city hall. If they win, they could have a month’s vacation in a country of their dreams, free from all constraints.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2006-06-21
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J'invente rien
Overview: Paul has no specific life goal, and Mathilde, who provides for their household, despairs that he can find one. If he continues like this, she may well drop him. So Paul thinks he's got to invent something.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2006-08-16
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Summer Hours
Overview: After the death of a septuagenarian woman, her three children deliberate over what to do with her estate.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2008-03-05
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Un divorce de chien
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Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2010-05-29
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Enceinte jusqu'aux dents
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2006-06-12
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In Your Dreams
Overview: Ninth is a promising young rapper whose reputation does not exceed even the few streets of his neighborhood. With his band and supported by Keuj, hairdresser apprentice producer, he tries to attend concerts and trying to break into the music, to the chagrin of his mother, who would see him in a more conventional career at the post office...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2005-04-13
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Belleville Tour
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2008-08-06
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Mer belle à agitée
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2006-09-02
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Tell No One
Overview: A man receives a mysterious e-mail appearing to be from his wife, who was murdered years earlier. As he frantically tries to find out whether she's alive, he finds himself being implicated in her death.
Genres: Drama Thriller Crime Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2006-11-01
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Missing Child
Overview: Luisa lives with Mathieu, the man she loves, and Arthur, Mathieu's son by his first wife, who died in an accident. But Arthur, whom Luisa has been raising like her own, suddenly disappears from school and no one claims a kidnapping.
Genres: Drama Crime Mystery Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2017-12-08
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L'Amour, la mort, les fringues
Overview: They stick to our skin and soul, our clothes. We believe we buy them, they own us. Warning ! these rags are traitors: far from dressing us they expose our complexes, our moods ... Clinging to their hangers, to our memories too, they exercise an underhand dictatorship. Snuggled up, huddled together, they build a bulwark against oblivion in our closets. Often stained for eternity with ink or redcurrant, impregnated with perfume, tears sometimes, piled up or messed up on our shelves, they remain forever linked to the happy or unhappy chapters of our life. It is through the evocation of their wardrobe that Gigi, Eve, Marie, Nora, Françoise, Amanda, Lisa and the others evoke the past, missed appointments and those that changed their lives, the joys and childhood revolts, giggles, disappointments, dramas, parties and hopes too…
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2011-02-26
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Her Word Against His
Overview: A rape victim faces a dilemma: tell the truth about her assault or stay silent and allow her attacker to be falsely convicted for murder.
Genres: Drama Crime Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2018-05-02
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Children of the Lie
Overview: A week before her wedding, Agathe Plichard, a pretty young woman of mixed race, is found drowned in the Creuse river. The police treat the case as an accident but her fiancé, Félix Bricourt, is convinced she was murdered. He decides to investigate by himself, despite the wishes of his family, a wealthy dynasty of the region. Won over by Félix's resolve, police inspector Carole Levasseur also decides to find out the truth. The murder of an independent journalist changes the course of the investigation, stirring up the past and unveiling the forgotten "Children of the Creuse" affair.
Genres: Thriller Drama Crime Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2018-04-15
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Josephine Baker: The Story of an Awakening
Overview: How did a poor little black girl from Missouri become the Queen of Paris, before joining the French Resistance and finally creating her dream family “The Rainbow Tribe”, adopting twelve children from four corners of the world? This is the fabulous story of the first black superstar, Josephine Baker.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2018-11-22
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I Love My Mum
Overview: A mother and son duo get inadvertently shipped in a container from London to Morocco with nothing but their pajamas. The adventure takes them through Spain and France on a journey to get home and rebuild their rocky relationship.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-05-31
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Kiss & Tell
Overview: Sequel to 2002's "Summer Things" (Embrassez qui vous voudrez). This French comedy follows various people in two families. Bertrand and his wife, Elizabeth, are a wealthy couple who plan to vacation near the same coastal town as their friends, Jerome and Veronique, who are secretly struggling with financial problems. Meanwhile, Bertrand and his daughter, Emilie, have each been hiding a secret, and these deceptions are bound to have repercussions.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2018-10-10
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French Wedding, Caribbean Style
Overview: In Julius Amédée-Laou's biting dramedy, a supposedly joyful interracial wedding descends into chaos when long-buried prejudices and family secrets rise to the surface. Told through the cocky lens of the bride's younger brother, what begins as a lighthearted summer affair turns nightmarish as scandal threatens to destroy the unlikely couple's big day.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2002-10-17
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Meurtres en Martinique
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Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2016-04-24
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À l'instinct - La mort en marche
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Genres: Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2025-01-23
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Comme une ombre
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Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: fr
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