Philippe Khorsand
Also Known As: Philippe Teymour Khorsand, Philippe Teymour
Biography: Philippe Khorsand (February 17, 1948 – January 29, 2008) was a French actor. His father was Iranian and his mother was French. He first appeared in a number of small roles in the 1970s. One of his most memorable roles as husband and father in Tableau d'honneur (1992). Khorsand died of a hemorrhage at the age of 59 in Paris. Source: Article "Philippe Khorsand" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Paris, France
Adult: No
Birthday: February 17, 1948
Age: 77 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: January 29, 2008
Popularity:
Known For:
Tableau d'honneur
Overview: Handsome Jules has problems with school and girls. His domineering dad doesn't make matters easier, although his mom is supportive of her only child. Contemplating an extramarital affair, Claude Jade attempts to discreetly shop for condoms, a cute twist on what is traditionally a teenage boy's awkward ordeal.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1992-08-26
Popularity:
Nous ne l'avons pas assez aimée
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1980-11-18
Popularity:
Tailleur pour Dames
Overview:
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1993-01-01
Popularity:
First Christmas
Overview: Little Rafik learns about Santa Claus in School, when he arrives just before Christmas with his Tunisian family to settle down in France in the 1960's.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-05-01
Popularity:
The Best Job in the World
Overview: To be closer to his children following his divorce, Laurent Monier, a history and geography teacher in a peaceful provincial high school, accepts a position in a sensitive college in the Paris suburbs. He is assigned the hardest class, the fourth techno, and he finds an apartment in the Cité des Muriers, a particularly difficult district.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1996-12-11
Popularity:
Les Miserables
Overview: In France during World War II, a poor and illiterate man, Henri Fortin, is introduced to Victor Hugo's classic novel Les Misérables and begins to see parallels between the book and his own life.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1995-03-22
Popularity:
A Day at the Museum
Overview: Un conservateur terrorisé par les plantes vertes, une mère plastifiée pour être exposée, un ballet de Saintes Vierges, des gardiens épuisés par Rodin, un ministre perdu dans une exposition de sexes, une voiture disparue au parking Rembrandt, des provinciaux amoureux des Impressionnistes, touristes galopins galopant d'une salle à l'autre, passager clandestin dans l'art premier, Picasso, Gauguin, Warhol, ils sont tous là dans ce petit monde qui ressemble au grand, dans ce musée pas si imaginaire que ça, valsant la comédie humaine jusqu'au burlesque.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2008-11-19
Popularity:
Petit Con
Overview: An adolescent who fancies himself a sexy and conscientious young man abuses all his friends and family in a quest for his own independence.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1984-01-18
Popularity:
Revenge of a Blonde
Overview: An upstanding provincial reporter becomes presenter of the TV news on a commercial network owned by an influential Italian businessman. He soon outgrows his family and neglects them terribly. Investigating a fascist terrorist cell, the reporter's integrity is called into doubt by the police. Soon after, his jealous wife unleashes her wrath live in TV. It goes from bad to worse until his wife's anger brings him back to his senses and back home.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1994-01-26
Popularity:
My Best Pals
Overview: They are the best friends of the world. Five friends who shared everything: may 68, hippies years, the rock and their love for Bernadette. This Bernadette has left them to become a rock-star, and is back 15 years later for a weekend. Jean-Marie Poire describes with this movie the portrait of a generation with lots of humor served by excelent actors.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1989-03-01
Popularity:
Men, Women: A User's Manual
Overview: Benoit Blanc loves living, he loves women, he loves daring. He is a famous businessman who suffers from stomach-ache. Fabiolini, a would-be actor, is a policeman and he too suffers from the same sickness. The two man face suffering in opposite ways: Benoit Blanc is optimistic while Fabiolini, always unsure of himself, is persuaded he is seriously ill. The two men meet by chance while doing a gastroscopy and become friends. After having known their real different conditions, they will change and will understand better their lives. Around them, other people, women and men, will see their lives changed, by chance, by love or solely by the life stream.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1996-08-28
Popularity:
Victoire
Overview: Victoire is sweet, sensitive, nice and understanding. She leads an existence which doesn't leave her much time to wonder.
Genres: Comedy Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2004-12-22
Popularity:
La Galette du roi
Overview: In this conventional, broadly comic farce of greed and royal matrimony, nearly bankrupt businessman Victor Harris is marrying Maria-Helena, a princess who comes with a dowry that is made up of one half of her island kingdom. Her father, the cowardly King Arnold III is counting on the money this marriage will bring him. The country is now almost bankrupt because of the king's gambling debts. As Harris and the king look forward to their illusory profits from the royal merger, other characters add some liveliness to the otherwise predictable story.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1986-01-29
Popularity:
Plato's Banquet
Overview: At house of Agathon get together many intellectuals and philosophers, including Socrates, to discuss the theme of love and sex: each of them intervenes to support its argument dialogical rules, within the context symposial.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1989-07-27
Popularity:
Le Zèbre
Overview: Hippolyte, the titular oddball, is a far from typical country lawyer. He has been happily married to the woman of his dreams for 15 years, but has an incurable penchant for practical (or rather impractical) jokes.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1992-06-16
Popularity:
Des cadavres à la pelle
Overview: Three friends, Robert, Michel and Jean, would be three happy men if Robert's aunt, who has inherited a magnificent nightclub, the King Club, in which they work, didn't torment them. Friendly and small-minded, they think they're tough and don't hesitate to traffic. Their latest find is not without imagination: to bring from Amsterdam diamonds hidden in the diaper of a baby of whom Michel is the father.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1995-07-12
Popularity:
Des enfants dans les arbres
Overview: An old farmhouse in southwestern France, not far from the Spanish border, serves as a refuge for Jewish refugees during World War Two.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1994-10-22
Popularity:
Beware of My Love
Overview: Muriel, a writer nearing 50 whose older lover won't live with her in Paris, meets a man on a train - Samuel, an Arab. He's attracted to her and pursues her, dropping in, asserting himself. She's willing to connect. He's passionate, then boorish, then jealous and possessive. He seems fixed on "Who's the strongest?," while she wants respect and trust. She's self-possessed as well as sexually charged, willing to laugh, and alternately firm and forgiving. He has little money, no immigration papers, few prospects, and a gambling jag. What does each want, and why does she stick with it? Is this colonial strife, war between the sexes, or a love story?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1998-09-02
Popularity:
Papa veut pas que je t'épouse
Overview: Max Schmulevitz runs a gargotte on Rue des Rosiers. Schmulevitz has the bailiff on his back. He is located across the street from Goldenberg's, who is in fierce competition with him. Moreover, Léa, his daughter, falls in love with a certain Christophe... Lebreton, an authentic goy! Max asks a friend to find him an "acceptable" son-in-law.
Genres: TV Movie Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1992-11-02
Popularity:
Keeping Everyone Up
Overview: A homeless street musician meets an attractive woman by chance and keeps following her until he persuades her to let him stay in her place.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1982-03-30
Popularity:
The Thirst for Gold
Overview: Urbain Donnadieu's first love is money. It's also his second, third and fourth love. The only reason he married - a tax inspector named Fleurette - was to avoid a fine for tax evasion. For several years, he has been stealing money from his construction company and buying gold bars with his ill-gotten gains. His plan is to deposit all this wealth in a Swiss Bank, where neither his wife - whom he is about to divorce - nor the French State can get at it. Accompanied by his money-grabbing Granny Zézette, Urbain heads off for Switzerland, with his gold concealed in the walls of a model house on the back of a trailer. Unfortunately, his scheme is threatened by his wife and his embittered ex-chauffeur, who are determined to get his money at any cost...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1993-08-31
Popularity:
Troubleshooters
Overview: The day he is released from jail, Serge is expected by four killers sent by Count Charles Varèse assigned to make him confess where he has hidden the jewels stolen during his last stickup. On the other hand the police inspector who arrested him offers him protection on condition he gives him the same piece of information. Serge refuses and is about to be tortured by Varèse's henchmen when Michel, a friendly hood, comes to his rescue. His friendship will result in... a heap of corpses! —Guy Bellinger
Genres: Action Comedy Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1971-04-07
Popularity:
La Femme fardée
Overview: Marivaudages of a privileged group embarked on the "Narcissus" for a musical cruise in company of the famous diva La Doria.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1990-11-07
Popularity:
Corps z'à corps
Overview: A newspaper editor attempts to save a failing girlie magazine.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1988-06-15
Popularity:
Out of Whack
Overview: Rien ne va plus is a series of comedy sketches of disparate quality, on the social, cultural, and political foibles that make the French, French. Various settings and character types are given a once-over, including pseudo-intellectuals, punk bikers, right-wingers, and patrons of a low-end cafe.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1979-12-12
Popularity:
Les Bronzés, le père Noël, papy et les autres
Overview: Les Bronzés, le Père Noël, Papy et les autres....Discover or rediscover the emblematic scenes of these cult films that have crossed generations without getting old. Go behind the scenes of these unusual films through completely unpublished anecdotes and funny stories told by the authors themselves.
Genres: Documentary Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2003-01-03
Popularity:
The Marcorelle Affair
Overview: François Marcorelle, an investigation magistrate in Chambéry, finds himself in the room of a young Polish girl that he met in a restaurant
Genres: Drama Fantasy Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2000-09-13
Popularity:
The Vengeance of the Winged Serpent
Overview: An international intrigue with terrorists threatening to blow up the presidents of the most powerful countries.
Genres: Adventure Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1984-11-28
Popularity:
Casting
Overview: A famous director wants to make a film about true love, the kind his grandparents experienced when they lived together for 60 years. For this project, he holds auditions in a commercial real estate office. He asks the actors and actresses he meets to tell him about their conception of Love, with results that differ from those he expected...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1983-05-17
Popularity:
The ComDads
Overview: Unable to find her runaway son, a woman deceives two of her ex-lovers from her youth, a mild-mannered teacher and a tough journalist, that each is the real father in order to obtain their help.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1983-11-23
Popularity:
Fantôme sur l'oreiller
Overview: A man is about to buy a castle from his wife, who has secretly decided to leave him. He discovers belatedly that the building is haunted.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1989-12-30
Popularity:
L'Amuse-gueule
Overview:
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1989-09-09
Popularity:
A Year in My Life
Overview: In 1950s France, a young boy is taken in by a couple after spending a few months in the care of social service.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2006-03-08
Popularity:
The Joint Brothers
Overview: After he is dismissed from his umpteenth job, Momo is kicked out of the family home by his fed-up father. He immediately joins his buddy Manu, who is also penniless having just lost his job at a cafeteria. The two decide to ask shady nightclub owner Sammy for a job, and he promptly hires them to transport back two statuettes from Amsterdam. Momo and Manu soon find out that these art objects are stuffed with drugs, but still manage to carry out their mission. They receive one kilo of grass in exchange, which they sell immediately. But while the business is lucrative, they discover that it's not so easy to become a full-fledged drug dealer...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1986-10-15
Popularity:
Sauve-toi, Lola
Overview: Lola, a young lawyer, is raising her little boy Bolivar, and sustains his family. Diagnosed with cancer, she decides to fight against this disease as it has always done in life with strength, determination, and above all with humor. In his fight, it is supported by Ferdinand, his fiery lover and naive who is a journalist. In the hospital, treated by Prof. Tobman, deeply human doctor, she met a group of women, all living with the same bad but each following a different social environment. This group will become his new "family".
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1986-09-03
Popularity:
Lâche-moi les valseuses!...
Overview:
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1977-07-20
Popularity:
Zig Zag Story
Overview: The lives of three Parisians - a color-blind painter, a radio show host and a perverted photographer - intertwine and go hilariously out of control.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1983-05-03
Popularity:
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
Popularity:
My Other Husband
Overview: A woman leaves her husband and marries another man without divorcing the first.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1983-09-21
Popularity:
Don Juan
Overview: Spain in the mid-seventeenth century. A series of bloody wars has ravaged the nation. Don Juan the nobleman and his valet, Sganarelle, roam the countryside on horseback, on the run and lost.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1998-04-28
Popularity:
The Bit Between the Teeth
Overview: Three men with a penchant for gambling on the horses soon find themselves in trouble because of their addiction. Pierre (Michel Piccoli) is the math whiz who uses his talent for picking the winners. Charles (Michel Galabru) is the wealthy scrap-iron magnate who has embarrassing evidence on many prominent political figures. Loic (Jacques Dutronc) is the aspiring politico who seeks to further his career by any means possible. Charles approaches Loic and asks his political party for a loan in hopes of fixing an upcoming race....
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1979-09-01
Popularity:
Le jardin d'Eponine
Overview: She is not very brilliant, Eponine's career ... But what, there is not only the theater in life! Good year bad year, rouspous and vehement, she manages to find a good life, surrounded by her sister, of her mother, her dog and her doves ... And above all, in the middle of her wonderful piece of garden which she cares for with love ... Originally it was a play written by Maria Pacôme, premiered on September 25, 1981 at the Comédie des Champs Elysées (directed by Gérard Vergez). This piece was specially recorded (without audience) for television in March 1984, at the Buttes-Chaumont and broadcast on Antenne 2.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1984-10-22
Popularity:
Lou Didn’t Say No
Overview: Moments and aspects of the life of a contemporary married couple undergoing a metamorphosis.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1994-12-21
Popularity:
Si t'as besoin de rien, fais-moi signe
Overview: Once inseparable, Charles the artist and Daniel the schemer reunite after 15 years of separation and confess their mutual misfortune. Determined to start over, the two friends and Sylvie, a friend of Charles, take on the movie business. But they come up against the well-established laws of the business and create havoc wherever they go. But their optimism will save them.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1986-08-06
Popularity:
Les Oreilles entre les dents
Overview: An assassin signs his crimes by cutting off the ears of his victims which he places between their teeth. In order to proceed with his arrest, an expert in criminology is contacted.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1987-07-08
Popularity:
Keep Your Right Up
Overview: This film is made up several sketches in which certain actors play several real or fictional roles to a background of rock music. The lead character, played by Godard himself, is an annoyingly perfectionist film-maker determined to wring every last drop of the finest performance possible from his stars.
Genres: Comedy Drama Fantasy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1987-09-19
Popularity:
Le voyage de la grande duchesse
Overview:
Genres: Comedy Family TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2003-08-27
Popularity:
Edith and Marcel
Overview: This tragic musical drama chronicles the star-crossed love between beloved French singer Edith Piaf and World Middleweight boxing champion Marcel Cerdan who died in a plane crash. The tumultuous affair is paralleled by the love affair of a French POW and his young pen pal who get engaged after writing to each other for four years and having never met. Their romances are framed by the sad, torchy songs of Piaf.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1983-01-01
Popularity: