Alain Figlarz
Also Known As: 알랭 피글라즈
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Paris, France
Adult: No
Birthday: October 20, 1962
Age: 62 years old
Gender: Male
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La Vie en Rose
Overview: From the mean streets of the Belleville district of Paris to the dazzling limelight of New York's most famous concert halls, Edith Piaf's life was a constant battle to sing and survive, to live and love. Raised in her grandmother's brothel, Piaf was discovered in 1935 by nightclub owner Louis Leplee, who persuaded her to sing despite her extreme nervousness. Piaf became one of France's immortal icons, her voice one of the indelible signatures of the 20th century.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2007-02-14
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Koan
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Genres: Action Crime TV Movie Mystery Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2002-05-08
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36th Precinct
Overview: In Paris, two cops are competing for the vacant job of chief of police, in the middle of the search for a gang of violent thieves. The movie is directed by Olivier Marchal, a former police officer who spent 12 years with the French police before creating this story, taken in part from real events of the 1980s.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2004-11-24
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Rivoallan
Overview: An undercover cop is unmasked during a drug deal. A shootout ensues that will leave more than one person dead...
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2008-01-01
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Crime Insiders
Overview: A Parisian criminal gang fall apart after challenges to the gang's leader lessen his influence.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2007-01-17
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The Hook
Overview: A writer of novels in need of an editor accepts the contract offered to him by a famous writer: to eliminate his ex-wife against a large sum of money.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2004-08-11
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Time Has Come
Overview: In a time and place indeterminate a bandit has kidnapped Rixo Lomadis Bron’s daughter. Bron is a wealthy landowner who reigns over the shepherds of the Purple Mountain. The time has come when Rixo Lomadis Bron accuses Manjas-Kebir of killing his daughter and urges all the country’s inhabitants to track down the assassin. It’s the time when Radovan Remila Stoï, the land’s greatest warrior, rises up against this foolhardy act which has every chance of leading to war...
Genres: Fantasy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2005-07-13
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The Tiger Brigades
Overview: The film, set in 1912, is about the exploits of France's first motorized police brigade.
Genres: Action Adventure Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2006-04-14
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Unleashed
Overview: Raised as a slave, Danny is used to fighting for his survival. In fact, his "master," Bart, thinks of him as a pet and goes as far as leashing him with a collar so they can make money in fight clubs, where Danny is the main contender. When Bart's crew is in a car accident, Danny escapes and meets a blind, kindhearted piano tuner who takes him in and uses music to free the fighter's long-buried heart.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-02-02
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Cold Blooded
Overview: "Cold Blooded" - The meeting between a fragile woman and a depressed soldier builds a dangerous alliance.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2007-09-14
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Mes héros
Overview: A son finds an escape from his turbulent marriage with his slightly dysfunctional and quirky parents who are hiding a young boy from the authorities.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2012-12-10
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Chrysalis
Overview: Paris 2020, a high tech surgeon and her daughter are involved in a horrific car accident, the surgeon saves her daughter's life at the cost of manipulating her dreams and memories.
Genres: Action Thriller Crime Science Fiction
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2007-06-25
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Special Forces
Overview: Afghanistan. War correspondent Elsa Casanova is taken hostage by the Taliban. Faced with her imminent execution, a Special Forces unit is dispatched to free her. In some of the world’s most breathtaking yet hostile landscapes, a relentless pursuit begins between her kidnappers who have no intention of letting their prey escape them and a group of soldiers who risk their lives in pursuit of their single aim – to bring her home alive. This strong, independent woman and these men of duty are thrown together and forced to confront situations of great danger that inextricably bind them – emotionally, violently and intimately.
Genres: Action Drama War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2011-11-02
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The Wackos
Overview: When his credit card has just been swallowed by distributor Bruno Lussac, State Inspector Débé crosses the limits of home ethics when he learns that he has just been banned from banking. Disguised as a Southerner for a costume party where he was supposed to arrest drug dealers, he lures his colleagues into robbing a bank; he causes a bloodbath but comes out victorious of this heist. For his accomplices, the informant, and pretty peacekeeper Cécile Barko, known as Cyborg, this is the start of a crazy run.
Genres: Comedy Drama Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2002-07-31
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13 m²
Overview: Jose is looking for a way out of his small time banlieue deals. When he overhears a conversation between his girlfriend and his step-brother,he might just have found a very lucrative way.Together with his two best friends,he decides to attack an armored vehicle, full of cash. But everything goes wrong and they're forced into hiding,in a 13 square meters bunker. There, they will have to test their friendship, their motivations, as every move outside triggers even more, paranoia.
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2007-06-20
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Taken 2
Overview: In Istanbul, retired CIA operative Bryan Mills and his wife are taken hostage by the father of a kidnapper Mills killed while rescuing his daughter.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-09-27
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Scorpion
Overview: Featuring a mix of Thai Boxing and Ultimate Fighting, SCORPION has been dubbed The French Fight Club. It stars Jerome Le Banner, who is also known as Hyper Battle Cyborg and The Bulldog of Paris, a true kickboxer, famous for his aggressive style - 43 of his 57 wins have come by knockout.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2007-02-21
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The Horde
Overview: A bunch of crooked cops raid a ruined building located in an impoverished suburb of Paris, determined to furiously avenge the death of one of them, murdered by the ruthless criminal gang hidden on top of the dark labyrinth that will become a deathly trap when the living, unexpectedly turned into the undead by a mysterious plague, begin to devour the world.
Genres: Action Horror Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2010-02-10
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Anthony Zimmer
Overview: François, an ordinary Joe, falls hard for the sublimely beautiful woman who has just picked him up on the train and invited him to spend the weekend with her on the Riviera. But when the lady disappears the next morning and the police drag him in for questioning, François discovers he's been set up to pass for her notorious outlaw husband on the run, Anthony Zimmer. Even though he's been lied to and manipulated, François' life is changed forever and he's ready to give anything - maybe even his life - to hold this mysterious beauty in his arms again.
Genres: Thriller Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2005-04-01
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Fast Convoy
Overview: Málaga, southern Spain. Seven men, divided into four cars, set off with a large drug shipment towards Creil, a city near Paris; a routine mission that will be complicated by a fatal sequence of events.
Genres: Drama Action Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2016-01-20
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I Just Wanted to Go Home
Overview: In September 1986, two children were brutally killed in the suburbs of Metz. This is the beginning of "The Patrick Dils Affair", one of the most emblematic judicial errors in the annals of French justice.
Genres: Drama Crime TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2017-05-04
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First Day
Overview: Safia, a 25 year old policewoman, fulfills her dream and joins the prestigious 36 quai des Orfèvres (the headquarters of the criminal investigations department of the Parisian police) after 5 years of service in Clichy-sous-bois. On her very first day, totally out of the blue, she comes across a dangerous gangster who defies her ruthlessly.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2016-03-22
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Le Frelon Vert
Overview: The Green Hornet is a short film based upon characters from the popular radio and pulp series. The Green Hornet is actually Britt Reid, fearless newspaper publisher, who hides behind the Hornet's disguise to battle criminals that have managed to escape the long arm of law-aided. On his side we find of course his martial arts expert sidekick, Kato.
Genres: Action Science Fiction Crime Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2006-06-08
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Fucking Kassovitz
Overview: A making-of of the chaotic production of Mathieu Kassovitz's Babylon A.D. (2008).
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2011-11-16
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Francorusse
Overview: Max is a kind of modern Zadig embarked upon an existential and sentimental quest. Jewish and Russian all rolled into one, he quickly feels cramped in his native Ukraine. One day, he leaves his parents, family and enemies for the city of his dreams: Paris. He discovers the capital and the occasionally ferocious and complex ways of its natives.
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1997-12-24
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Anna
Overview: Beneath Anna Poliatova's striking beauty lies a secret that will unleash her indelible strength and skill to become one of the world's most feared government assassins.
Genres: Action Adventure Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-06-19
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Rogue City
Overview: Caught in the crosshairs of police corruption and Marseille’s warring gangs, a loyal cop must protect his squad by taking matters into his own hands.
Genres: Crime Thriller Action Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2020-10-30
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Madame Claude
Overview: Paris, the late 1960s. Madame Claude is at the head of a flourishing business dedicated to prostitution that gives her power over both the French political and criminal worlds. But the end of her empire is closer than she thinks.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2021-04-02
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Femme Fatale
Overview: A $10-million diamond rip-off, a stolen identity, a new life married to a diplomat. Laure Ash has risked big, won big. But then a tabloid shutterbug snaps her picture in Paris, and suddenly, enemies from Laure's secret past know who and where she is. And they all want their share of the diamond heist. Or her life. Or both.
Genres: Mystery Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-04-30
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Paris by Night
Overview: Police commander Simon Weiss, head of the division that supervises Paris’s demi-monde, starts out on his nightly tour of bars, discos and strip clubs, making sure once again that the owners don’t bend the rules too far. Weiss knows he’s between a rock and hard place: it’s obvious that criminal gangs run rampant in his special domain, and even more obvious that they’re protected by higher-ups in the department.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2012-01-04
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Etats d’arme
Overview: Fred is a "go fast" professional until the day he is ambushed by the police. On the run, he has no choice but to ask for the help of his brother whom he has not seen for years...
Genres: Action
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2020-07-26
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Confession of a Dredger
Overview: During the summer, Paul, provincial student, shy and bookish, went to Paris to integrate Sciences-Po, bed on a bench in the Luxembourg Gardens. One afternoon, while the eye follows a young girl he had noticed for several days, he made the acquaintance of Fab, a seducer getter, effective and apparent misogyny, which will teach him the basics drag. Starting first with a documented learning every evening in his diary, Paul soon to be questionable practices to limit crime.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2001-07-24
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Three Blind Mice
Overview: Thomas is a talented computer programmer living in a vibrant, urban metropolis. Lonely and unsure about life, he finds solitude in the world of internet chat rooms, webcam sites and virtual communication. One evening, Thomas witnesses the brutal murder of a webcam friend and in a vain attempt to protect her he becomes the prime suspect in the homicide. Determined to prove his innocence, Thomas teams up with Claire, a specialist in internet crimes to uncover the truth. To expose the murderer, Claire and Thomas decide to set up their own webcam site using Claire as the cyber bait. Somewhere down the line the truth becomes blurred and Thomas no longer knows where to turn or who to trust. As his life starts to spiral out of control, he has to face the terrifying reality that he could be the next victim.........the virtual nightmare has only just begun.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-10-08
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Weekend in Taipei
Overview: A former DEA agent and a former undercover operative revisit their romance during a fateful weekend in Taipei, unaware of the dangerous consequences of their past.
Genres: Action Adventure Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-09-19
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