Marie-Christine Barrault
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Biography: Marie-Christine Barrault (born 21 March 1944) is a French actress. She is best known for her performance in Cousin Cousine (1975) for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress. In 2010, she released her autobiography, titled This Long Way To Get To You. Marie-Christine Barrault was born in Paris, France, the daughter of Martha (née Valmier) and Max-Henri Barrault. Her parents later divorced. Barrault's father, who worked in the theatre, died while she was a teenager. With no support, her mother was unable to care for her and her brother, Alain. Barrault was raised by her grandmother, Felicite. She was mentored in acting by her aunt and uncle, French performers Jean-Louis Barrault and Madeleine Renaud. They initially did not support her dreams of becoming an actress. She performed in plays in secondary school and then enrolled in an acting conservatory. Barrault got her start on television in L'oeuvre (1967). She made her feature film debut in Éric Rohmer's My Night at Maud's (1969). In 1970 Barrault was featured along with Pierre Richard in the comedy film Le Distrait. In 1975 Barrault starred in Cousin Cousine, for which she received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress in a Leading Role. She worked with Rohmer once again in 1978, in the role of Guinevere in Perceval le Gallois and she also has a cameo in his Chloe in the Afternoon. Barrault is not fluent in English and therefore has generally turned down offers to appear in English-language films. However, in 1980 she accepted an offer from Woody Allen to appear in his film Stardust Memories. In 1988 she was nominated for a Genie Award for her performance in No Blame. In 1991 she portrayed Marie Curie in a television mini-series. In her later career, she has preferred acting on the stage in France. In 2015, she came to Los Angeles on tour to perform in the play Les Yeux Ouverts, in which she portrays French author Marguerite Yourcenar. Barrault's first husband was producer Daniel Toscan du Plantier, whom she married in 1965. With him, she had two children, David and Ariane. Barrault was married to director Roger Vadim from 1990 until his death from cancer in 2000. She herself is a breast cancer survivor. Source: Article "Marie-Christine Barrault" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Paris, France
Birthday: March 21, 1944
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Gender: Female
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Toi que j'aimais tant
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Genres: Drama Crime TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2014-10-25
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Trivial
Overview: An inspector who just suffered a family tragedy is looking for a missing older man. Man's family is of no help, or are they hiding something? He is helped by a ghost of an actress who died 30 years ago, or is he slowly going insane?
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2007-05-23
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Bonsoir
Overview: Having first lost his wife then his job as a tweed tailor, Alex Ponttin has devised a novel way to keep himself in touch with society. He admits himself into people's homes, by pretending to be a relative or an official, and persuading his victims to give him a night's free board: He finds at first a lunch at the horrible couple Dumont, where a thief follows him for a robbery. Alex spent an evening in front of TV at Marie, mother of seven children. He runs from Marie to find an evening and a new bed at the home of charming but shy lesbian Caroline and her funny lover Gloria. To save her inheritance, Caroline - accused for her homosexuality by her horrible sister Catherine - tells her aunt Amélie, that Gloria is her secretary and Alex her lover. So Alex has to present himself nude in Caroline's bed. He saves Carolines inheritance. The police officers investigating the case are so terminally stupid that Alex has little chance of being arrested.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1994-01-19
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La Confession d'un enfant du siècle
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1974-01-01
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Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
Overview: A lost cat, a giant talkative frog and a tsunami help a bank employee without ambition, his frustrated wife and a schizophrenic accountant to save Tokyo from an earthquake and find a meaning to their lives.
Genres: Animation Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2023-02-24
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Stardust Memories
Overview: While attending a retrospect of his work, a filmmaker recalls his life and his loves: the inspirations for his films.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-09-26
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Cousin, Cousine
Overview: Two distant cousins meet at a wedding banquet for an elderly couple. Over time, a close friendship develops between them, but their spouses begin to think that they are more than just friends.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1975-11-19
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« Allô police » Retour à l'envoyeur
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Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1970-07-20
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Domestic Life
Overview: Juliette was simply not sure about coming to live in this residential suburb of the greater Paris metropolitan area. All the women here are in their forties, have children to raise, houses to keep and husbands who return home late at night.Today she has an appointment in Paris that is important for her career, but she also has to run errands and pick up the kids from school. During the course of her day, monopolized by petty, everyday tasks, Juliette can feel the noose of domestic obligations and household chores slowly tightening around her neck.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2013-10-02
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Making Plans for Lena
Overview: Ever since she broke up with Nigel, Lena soldiers on through life as best she can with her two kids. She valiantly overcomes the obstacles put in her way. But she has yet to confront the worst of them: Her unstoppable family has decided, by any means necessary, to make her happy.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2009-09-02
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The Medusa Touch
Overview: A French detective in London reconstructs the life of a man lying in hospital with severe injuries with the help of journals and a psychiatrist. He realises that the man had powerful telekinetic abilities.
Genres: Horror Thriller Science Fiction Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-04-13
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George et Sarah
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2020-01-01
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Et doucement rallumer les étoiles
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Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2023-03-09
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Next Time the Fire
Overview: The study of semantics has convinced Amedio that things only have relative validity, and that everything is changeable. So it seems, because while on an Italian holiday with his family, he conceives the idea that his aging wife should assume the role of his mother, and his daughter, who has an infant son, should assume the role of his wife and lover. His real mother, an elderly invalid, dies just as this conceit begins to take form, and, inexplicably, the women placidly go along with this odd notion for a time, but eventually return to their former roles.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1993-09-17
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Vaudeville
Overview: The husband, the wife and the lover. The husband is tired of playing the eternal husband. The wife would like to live a last love story. The lover, seducer in the soul, only dreams of slippers. As a bonus, there is the brother-in-law, Santa Claus in a department store who carries jealousy in his sack. So everyone changes roles.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1986-03-19
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Manuela's Loves
Overview: The survivor of a concentration camp finds out that her lover, a lesbian, is having an affair with a protegee.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1987-06-17
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Women in Prison
Overview: Nicole (Agnes Soral) is sent up the river for infanticide in this routine woman-in-prison feature. There she meets Marthe (Annie Girardot), a fellow murderess who receives special treatment from the warden Dessombes (Marie-Christine Barrault). The warden frames Nelly (Bernadette Lafont) for drug possession and has her thrown into solitary confinement. Sabien (Corinne Touzet) is a newcomer convicted of armed robbery who latches on to the lesbian Lucie (Milva), a longtime prisoner slated for release.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1988-10-12
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My Night at Maud's
Overview: The Catholic Jean-Louis runs into an old friend, the Marxist Vidal, in Clermont-Ferrand around Christmas. Vidal introduces Jean-Louis to the modestly libertine, recently divorced Maud and the three engage in conversation on religion, atheism, love, morality and Blaise Pascal's life and writings on philosophy, faith and mathematics. Jean-Louis ends up spending a night at Maud's. Jean-Louis' Catholic views on marriage, fidelity and obligation make his situation a dilemma, as he has already, at the very beginning of the film, proclaimed his love for a young woman whom, however, he has never yet spoken to.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1969-06-04
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Crazy Love
Overview: A young girl who has been orphaned, meets a man who has recently escaped from an insane asylum. The two pretend to be father and daughter and after falling in love with the man, the girl discovers he is married and vows to kill his wife.
Genres: Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1993-12-08
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The Student
Overview: An ambitious teaching student's finals studies are interrupted by a passionate affair with a jazz musician.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1988-10-05
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Azzurro
Overview: 75-year-old Giuseppe De Metrio has spent 30 years in Geneva, as foreign worker for the Broyer company. Upon retirement, he returned to Puglia, Italy, where his family had continued to live. His only grandchild, 7-year-old Carla, is blind. The whole family looks forward hopefully to the day when Carla's sight can be restored by means of a cornea transplantation. After a heart attack, Giuseppe decides to wait no longer and returns to Switzerland to ask his former boss Mr. Broyer for the money necessary for the operation, as an old promise binds the two men. Intended as a 48-hour trip, Giuseppe and Carla's visit in Switzerland becomes a journey that both grandfather and granddaughter never dreamt of...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2000-08-12
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Saint-Germain ou La négociation
Overview: This is the TV adaptation of a novel by Francis Walder. The scene happens in 1570, during the religions wars between catholics and protestants in France. Both sides are decided for a truth, to enable peaceful negociations of a settlement, which will become the peace of Saint-Germain-en-Laye, the same year. The negociation, lead by Henri de Malassise (Jean Rochefort), and the Earl of Biron for the Catholic side, and Mr. d'Ublé and M. de Mélynes for the protestants side.
Genres: Drama History TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2003-12-20
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Perceval
Overview: The film chronicles Perceval's knighthood, maturation and eventual peerage amongst the Knights of the Round Table, and also contains brief episodes from the story of Gawain and the crucifixion of Christ.
Genres: Drama Romance History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1978-10-08
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La Dilettante
Overview: Pierrette is a woman who describes herself as having "opted for the temporary on a permanent basis." After 15 years of living the good life in Switzerland, Pierrette one day packs her bags full of fashionable outfits and returns to her native Paris with no idea of what she'll do. Pierette, however, leads a charmed life; while her son is forced to work the graveyard shift at a factory due to poor job prospects, she's able to find a job right away at a high school. Pierrette soon reintroduces herself to her 23-year-old daughter and one-time best friend, trying to use her charm to skate over years of neglect. She just as suddenly finds a new beau, Ackerman, and starts helping him out with his antique business. However, what would seem like a simple matter -- buying a clock from an elderly woman -- soon turns out to be very complicated and fraught with consequence.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1999-07-07
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Passés troubles
Overview: A former police officer, Marc Lorca, sees his wife die from a terrible car accident, which occurred while he was driving. Previously alcoholic, Lorca seems to collapse under the weight of guilt. But a former colleague, Marianne Duriez, recently become a police captain, shows him that the accident is not accounted by any negligence on his part. The survey of experts has indeed revealed that the steering axis of the vehicle was sabotaged. Gradually, the suspect list is expanding. Lorca realizes he knows nothing of the past of his deceased wife, who was obviously part of a small extreme left group.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-01-01
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Love, Math and Sex
Overview: A highly intelligent teenage girl has an affair with a 40-year-old man.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1997-08-05
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Obsession
Overview: Two men become entangled in a torrid love affair with the same woman. Pierre is Miriam's longtime lover. John is desperately searching for clues about his past when he and Miriam have a fateful encounter in a Berlin train station. The allure of forbidden love becomes irresistible, and an intense love triangle is ignited. Who will Miriam choose? Who will walk away? For two men who desperately adore the same woman and for the woman who loves them equally...there is no easy way out.
Genres: Drama Thriller Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-08-28
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Le sagouin
Overview: In the 1930s, in a village in Gironde, Guillou, a young boy in need of affection, nicknamed the Sagouin, unhappy and in need of affection, leads a life of anguish and sadness in a sinister castle. He exasperates his mother who sees in him only the hated reflection of a husband she only married to become a baroness. Thanks to the kindness of the village teacher, Guillou glimpses for a moment the existence of another world, of gentleness and tenderness.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1972-01-27
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Daniya, the emir's garden
Overview: Daniya is the story of a trip. A man of culture and resolute, the younger brother of the Countess of Barcelona, leaves the Catalan court for the kingdom of Denia (Daniya). The purpose of his trip is to accept the ecclesiastical authority entrusted to him by the Muslim king of Mozarabic Christians living in the territory of the Kingdom of Denia. It is an interesting but dangerous journey, described as an adventure. A journey that will enrich the spirit of the youth that will be seduced by Al Andalus.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-01-01
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Le Chandelier
Overview: Jacqueline is married to Maître André, but is in love with her lover Clavaroche, a fiery officer stationed in the city. In order to avert Master André's suspicions about his wife's fidelity, Clavaroche suggests that Jacqueline take a "Chandelier".
Genres: Romance Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1977-12-17
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The Satin Slipper
Overview: During the century of the Spanish Gold, Doña Prouhèze, wife of a nobleman, deeply loves Don Rodrigo, who is forced to leave Spain and go to America. Meanwhile Prouhèze is sent to Africa to rule the city of Mogador. Ten years later Rodrigo leaves America and travels to Africa in search of Prouhèze to find out that she died and eventually meeting her daughter.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1986-01-08
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Swann in Love
Overview: In 19th-century Paris, Charles Swann risks his social standing in his obsessive pursuit of prostitute Odette. His overwhelming desire for her comes, in part, from Odette's complete disinterest in him. When he finally weds her, utterly compromising himself in high society, he finds to his horror that his love for her was a complete illusion. At the same time, the Baron de Charlus pursues his own ill-advised romance.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1984-02-23
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Sanguines
Overview: A new gardener arrives at the superb property of a French cultural attaché in Portugal. This frail young man does not have the head nor the figure for the job. And for good reason: Johann is a painter who, after a recent break-up, has fled to find the calm necessary for his work. This intrusion causes disturbances, admitted or not, in this small protected world.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1988-06-22
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Après tout ce qu'on a fait pour toi
Overview: Divorced parents are concerned about the behavior of their teenage son who is rebelling against society.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1983-02-03
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Woman Between Wolf and Dog
Overview: Lieve is a Belgian woman who marries just as World War II is beginning. When the Germans invade, her husband goes off to fight them, but he swiftly returns home after the invasion succeeds. Later, he decides that the Germans are on the right side of things, and goes off to fight for them on the Eastern Front. Soon afterward, a resistance fighter is stranded on her doorway, and she hides him. The two of them fall in love, and the conflicts and joys of this relationship cause Lieve continued grief well after the end of the war.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1979-06-04
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Pianoforte
Overview: Maria studies at the university while her boyfriend Paolo is an established journalist. Both are drug addicts. Maria and Paolo try to detox with the help of a specialized clinic but it doesn't last long: back from a trip during which they proved to themselves that they could resist without drugs, both fall victim to addiction again. The consequences are not long in coming.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1985-03-20
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Pianoforte
Overview: Maria studies at the university while her boyfriend Paolo is an established journalist. Both are drug addicts. Maria and Paolo try to detox with the help of a specialized clinic but it doesn't last long: back from a trip during which they proved to themselves that they could resist without drugs, both fall victim to addiction again. The consequences are not long in coming.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1985-03-20
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The Big Bad Wolf
Overview: Once upon a time in 2012, three brothers lived happily. One day their mom fell into a coma. So Henri, Philippe, and Louis suddenly started wondering about the meaning of their lives and were swamped by a wave of existential doubts. An entirely new situation for this bourgeois trio in their forties, one which opened a door to the novel and indeed the forbidden... and to the big bad wolf!
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2013-06-27
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My Name Is Hmmm...
Overview: Céline, 11, meets Peter, 40. Together they go on a "luminous journey" in his beautiful red truck. She, escaping her desperate and incestuous father; he, far from his native Scotland and the sad memory of his lost wife and daughter. In the course of a few days, a few words, Céline experiences her first true moments of childhood and lightness, exhilaration and trust. Peter goes towards the last days of a life that he offers, like a sublime and aging angel, to this wounded child.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2013-10-07
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Figaro-ci, Figaro-là
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Genres: History TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1972-06-16
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Histoire vraie
Overview: A servant girl, given in marriage when she turns out to be pregnant, can't bring herself to live away from her master.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1973-05-05
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Les Cent livres : A la recherche du temps perdu
Overview: An evocation, realistic and poetic at the same time, of Proust's work " in which he is locked up as in the room ". Halfway between the audiovisual adaptation and the portrait of the dandy and reclusive writer, all in black and white signed Claude Santelli, evoking the mystery, the intimate, and the fatality of existence.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1971-12-22
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Le Misanthrope
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1971-02-20
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John Glückstadt
Overview: Adapted from the novel Die Döppelgänger by Theodor Storm, this black-and-white drama tells the tragic story of a war veteran who, in 1860, returns to his home in Schleswig Holstein after serving a term for robbery. There he finds nothing but hardship and rejection, save from the town's mayor and a young servant girl, whom he marries. Ridiculed and abused, with practically no work, he turns to drink and one night accidentally kills his wife. The child of their marriage is taken away from him, and at this point he is left with the options of becoming a robber, starving to death, or emigrating.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1975-06-30
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Table for Five
Overview: J.P. Tannen (Jon Voight) wants a second chance to be a father to his children ... but someone else has taken his place. Determined not to just be a friendly 'uncle' in their lives, he gets permission from his ex-wife Kathleen (Millie Perkins) and her new husband (Richard Crenna) to take the kids on a Mediterranean cruise. On the journey he comes to realise it's not that easy and, feeling overwhelmed, begins to doubt his abilities until a tragedy back home forces him to become the father he always hoped to be.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-02-18
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Mon père avait raison
Overview: After being abandoned by his wife, a man raises his son alone for twenty years.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1996-11-15
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Sleight of Hand
Overview: Arnaud Marescot has a penchant to steal small objects. When his compulsive fixation targets Emilie, and he thinks he's in control over her, it's already too late to realize he's fallen into a deadly trap.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2014-08-19
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Le grand Batre
Overview: The story of a family and a tradition that remain the same despite the time going by, in a land that has existed for centuries. In La Camarga, one of the last natural sanctuaries that still exist, the Azéracs, landowners and aristocrats, work as wild bulls breeders. Shaken by passion and revenge, the family will have to face the adversities of a fate marked by the events that define the 20th century. In spite of this, the family will struggle to survive in an environment strongly bound to traditions and land.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1997-09-14
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Love in the Afternoon
Overview: The last of Rohmer's Six Moral Tales. Frederic leads a bourgeois life; he is a partner in a small Paris office and is happily married to Helene, a teacher expecting her second child. In the afternoons, Frederic daydreams about other women, but has no intention of taking any action. One day, Chloe, who had been a mistress of an old friend, begins dropping by his office. They meet as friends, irregularly in the afternoons, till eventually Chloe decides to seduce Frederic, causing him a moral dilemma.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1972-09-01
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À la recherche de... Pierre Richard
Overview: Follow in the footsteps of burlesque actor Pierre Richard, a key figure in French cinema in the 1970s and 1980s.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2017-09-01
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Tout sauf l’ennui
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2023-12-22
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Distracted
Overview: A comedy about an absent-minded man who works at a advertising company and topples from one problem to another.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1970-12-09
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A Better Life
Overview: Two quarreling lovers from opposite sides of the economic scale take central stage in this drama about Veronique and Adrien. Veronique is wealthy and from the provinces, Adrien is impoverished and his ancestors come from Brittany. In spite of their different backgrounds, the two fall in love, marry, and eventually have a baby girl. At just about that time, Veronique decides to go back to school, and Adrien becomes both mother and father to their baby. Unable to cope with Veronique's new-found intellectual friends and different lifestyle, Adrien clashes with her, and their arguments lead to a separation for awhile. The two then get back together again, but not for long. It is on a return trip from visiting his mother in Brittany that Adrien's life undergoes a dramatic change, and his story takes an equally unexpected turn.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1985-05-22
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My Dearest
Overview: Jeanne has been divorced for seven years now and her life is centered around Sarah, her fifteen year-old daughter. They appear to have a perfectly harmonious life together, a relationship based on deep mutual understanding and trust. So when Sarah needs a contraceptive, it's her mother who goes alone to the drugstore with her. However, under this idyllic surface there are tensions at work. Jeanne's on and off affair with Pierre does not save her from feeling lonely, and Sarah is bored by school. Both of them dream of an independent life, though neither will admit it.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1980-02-13
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Parlez-moi d'amour
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Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2004-11-01
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Oldies But Goodies
Overview: As the Lino Vartan shelter, which takes orphans and seniors in, has to shut down for health issues, Milann has no choice but to accept the invitation of a retirement home in the south of France.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2024-02-14
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Tendre piège
Overview: The engagement of a young couple is spoiled by the antics of their relatives.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1996-05-10
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Les mots pour le dire
Overview: A psychological drama that details the tormented relationship between Marie and her mother, stemming from Marie's childhood on their estate in Algeria. The mother, Eliane had lost a child before Marie was born and was consumed with hatred for her husband who was carrying tuberculosis and may have been the cause of the child's death. That hatred was never resolved, and Marie grew up in a bitter and strained household. As both women grow older, Marie marries and raises a family while her mother sinks ever deeper into anger, frustration, poverty, and isolated despair. She vents her destructive emotions on her daughter and is completely resistant to her daughter's attempts to help her, to make her life better.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-10-12
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Power Of Evil
Overview: An unsuspecting student thinks that the wife of an arms dealer is unhappy, but in reality she appears as cynical as her capitalist man.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1985-08-01
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L'Énigme des sables
Overview: A team of amateur filmmakers sets off, camera in hand, to the south of Morocco. During their stay, one of the members of the group, Fanette, a vulgar vampire, is murdered. The Moroccan police do not find the culprit, and Paris takes over the case. The inspector in charge of the investigation decides to view all the "works" made on site, in the presence of their author.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1988-07-07
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Pierre Richard, l'art du déséquilibre
Overview: This documentary brings a lighting on the originality and the specificity of the actor-author Pierre Richard, improbable synthesis of the talking ant silent films, heir to Buster Keaton for the gestural one and the expression of the body, and to Groucho Marx for the puns and the burlesque verbal one. Conceived like a voyage inside the universe of Pierre Richard, "the Art of unsteadiness" makes it possible to better understand its step, its method of actor, director and gag man. With through many testimonies, extracts of films and archives documents, drawn up here the portrait of one of the large last burlesques.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2005-12-07
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Necessary Love
Overview: In the 19th century Europe, an aging scheming couple decides to manipulate and seduce a couple of young newlyweds in love, just for the fun of it.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1991-11-27
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Marie Curie, Une Femme Honorable
Overview: Documentary about the tumultuous life of the famous scientist Marie Curie.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1991-03-12
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La maman du bourreau
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Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: fr
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Un coup de baguette magique
Overview: While Achille sinks into despair after losing his job, Jeanne has an affair with a conductor.
Genres: Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1997-08-27
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Memories of a Disturbed Young Lady
Overview: Lola is still a virgin at the age of twenty-five. Her friends decide to stick their noses into it. Memoirs of a Disturbed Young Lady is the story of a mad chase after a politically correct loss of virginity.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2010-01-01
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The Savage State
Overview: L'Etat Sauvage is based on the novel by Georges Conchon which won the highly esteemed Prix de Goncourt. The story chronicles the mindless racism of both the departing French colonial overlords and the emergent black Africans in a newly emerging African state. Laurence (Marie-Christine Barrault) suffers the outrage of her white acquaintances, including her former lover Gravenoir (Claude Brasseur) and her ex-husband Avit (Jacques Dutronc), for her affair with Patrice Doumbe (Doura Mane), an official in the new government. He in turn is ridiculed by his fellow cabinet ministers for stepping out with a white woman. The vilification escalates to such a point that Patrice is brutally murdered, and Laurence barely escapes the country alive, with the help of her ex-husband Avit.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1978-04-18
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Twisting Fate
Overview: 17-year-old Claire spends her vacation in South Africa with her family, when a tragic accident takes the lives of her parents and younger brother. By a stroke of luck, Claire survives, but finds herself alone, far from home in a country where everything is unfamiliar and intense. Distraught and consumed by guilt in the belief that she is somehow responsible for the death of her family, she runs away and decides to let fate, which saved her from death, guide her from now on.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2016-07-27
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Le tour d'écrou
Overview: A new governess arrives at a country house to take care of two seemingly angelic young children. But she begins to suspect that the house is haunted, and that the ghosts mean harm to the children.
Genres: Drama Horror Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1974-02-25
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Mir reicht's - ich steig aus
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1983-01-28
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The Abyss
Overview: The Inquisition is in full swing in 16th century Flanders. Wanted for his dissident writings, the alchemist doctor Zeno has been wandering Europe under an assumed name for twenty years. But he remains a non-conformist. He returns to his native Bruges, where he thinks he has been forgotten. In this silent labyrinth where the faces of the past resurface, he rediscovers his identity and thus signs his death warrant.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1988-05-13
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Les brumes du souvenir
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Genres: Crime TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2017-04-22
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Gallant Ladies
Overview: Despite being busy with his profession of soldiery, Brantome manages to find much more time for amorous dalliances with the ladies of the 16th-century French court than for battles. Unfortunately for him, his true love, Victoire, is beyond his reach most of the time. He more than compensates for this in the arms of others.
Genres: Comedy History Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1990-11-14
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An Ideal Husband
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1972-10-01
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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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L'été 36
Overview: In 1936, the life of the inhabitants of a Breton manor is disturbed by the arrival of workers on vacation.
Genres: Drama TV Movie Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1986-02-06
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Même les mômes ont du vague à l'âme
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1980-04-16
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Menace
Overview: An esteemed surgeon, Charles Bernard, and his family are victims of a violent home invasion. When his young child is held for ransom, Charles must decide whether to comply or fight back.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1972-02-18
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All About Mothers
Overview: They are possessive, benevolent, clumsy, absent, omnipresent, overwhelmed, guilty, indulgent, loving, fragile, in full possession of their wits, or losing their heads. Alive or already a memory. They are mothers, and it’s their party.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2018-05-23
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Louise... l'insoumise
Overview: While watching the others on her TV screen, Louise becomes a rebellious girl.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1985-03-13
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Lancelot of the Lake
Overview: This story is set in the 13th century, in Britain, where Lancelot, who was raised by Vivian, the Lady of the Lake, becomes one the Knight of the Round Tables and falls secretly in love with Guinevere, the wife of King Arthur, for whom he wants to accomplish many deeds.
Genres: Drama Fantasy TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1970-12-25
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Deux gouttes d'eau
Overview: A woman's dead body is found in her apartment on a winter morning. All the evidence points to her fiancé. But he has an identical twin brother. The detectives have to go beyond appearances and defeat their demons to find the true murderer.
Genres: Mystery Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2018-10-19
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Question de temps: Une heure avec Woody Allen
Overview: Woody Allen's interview with France Roche.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1979-01-01
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Les Contes secrets ou les Rohmériens
Overview: Les Contes Secrets ou les Rohmériens features interviews with 16 actors who have appeared in Rohmer's films, and they talk on camera about his unusual working methods, his personality, and his spare but evocative signature style. Among the thespians who share their memories are Jean-Louis Trinitignant, Marie-Christine Barrault, Zouzou, Jean-Claude Brialy, Béatrice Romand, Françoise Fabian, and Andre Dussolier; the film also includes rare footage of Rohmer himself at work on the set of his 1978 effort Perceval.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2005-01-01
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Adieu, je t'aime
Overview: A wife struggles with her husband's infidelity with another man and eventually gives herself to both of them.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1988-05-04
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The Silent Woman
Overview: French thriller written by Jean-Claude Carriere.
Genres: Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1989-01-01
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Zénon the Rebel
Overview: Zénon is the hero of “The Abyss”, the famous novel by Marguerite Yourcenar published in 1968. He is also the main character in André Delvaux’s film, played by Gian Maria Volonte, for the movie adaptation of the same book in 1988. But what does Zénon represent for us today, and what has become of him? How can this entirely fictional philosopher, doctor, alchemist and inventor from the Renaissance help us understand the era in which he lived as well as our own in these uncertain times? This is what this documentary sets out to do.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2019-12-11
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A Love in Germany
Overview: In May of 1983, a man turns 49 and, with his 17-year old son, journeys to the village in Baden that he left 40 years before. He wants to discover what happened then, the truth about an affair his mother had with a young Polish prisoner of war, how the authorities came to learn of it, the lovers' arrest, and the aftermath. While his son takes Polaroid photographs, he retraces the steps of his childhood and interviews those who should remember. The story is disclosed in flashbacks that focus on the lovers (Paulina and Stanislaus), on a jealous and conniving neighbor, and on Mayer, the local SS commander who wants to find a way out of inevitable consequences.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1983-10-26
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Jesus of Montreal
Overview: A group of actors putting on an interpretive Passion Play in Montreal begin to experience a meshing of their characters and their private lives as the production takes form against the growing opposition of the Catholic church.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1989-05-15
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The Easy Way Out
Overview: Patrick, a travel agent in his early 30s, lives with Arthur, an immigration lawyer; but for a long time, Patrick has been sleeping on an air mattress on the floor of their bedroom. His younger brother, Tony, plans to marry his high school sweetheart but is having an affair that is far more satisfying than his relationship with his fiancee. Their older brother, Ryan, is divorced, living at home and working at his parents’ hopelessly unprofitable men’s clothing store. And McCauley soon makes achingly clear that the parents’ marriage is far from happy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2015-03-04
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Mademoiselle de la Charce
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2016-05-25
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Stormy Summer
Overview: Every year, the whole gather in the French region of Auvergne's home. During this 1944 summer, Louis falls in love with his cousin Laurence. The arrival of a British skydiver, Jack, will completely upset Laurence. Louis, jealous like crazy, will betray the skydiver who will die in front of his eyes. But his cousin François-Xavier has also seen what happened.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1989-06-21
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The Lizard King
Overview: A woman travels from France to Australia in search of her missing son.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-02-28
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L'empreinte de l'ange
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Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: fr
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L'amour trop fort
Overview: Max is an old and unsuccessful actor while Charlie is an ambitious young director, yet they are bound together by close friendship. Until the day Rose-Marie, a rather conservative young antique dealer, walks into Charlie's life. When Max's wife walks out on him, he clings to the young couple like ivy. However he soons becomes a dead weight and Rose-Marie threatens to leave if Charlie doesn't choose between her and Max.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1981-04-15
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Per il mio bene
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2024-12-05
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The Ties That Bind Us
Overview: A young single father trying to find the strength to love. A feminist librarian, single by conviction, who’s decided that she won’t be a mother. A six-year-old child trying to find a place in a new family structure. By revealing their aspirations, their fears, their choices, Carine Tardieu depicts different ways in which humans create families.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2025-02-19
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Jenny Marx, la femme du diable
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Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1993-09-20
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