Valérie Stroh
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Strasbourg, France
Birthday: August 11, 1958
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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L'homme qui n'était pas là
Overview: Charles Elaine, a famous actor, becomes the target of a man who wants to apply to him a theory according to which you can make someone crazy by manipulating him. Rella, a beautiful young woman, is designed to drive Charles crazy.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1987-05-06
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The Mad Women's Ball
Overview: A woman who is unfairly institutionalized at a Paris asylum plots to escape with the help of one of its nurses. Based on the novel 'Le bal des folles' by Victoria Mas.
Genres: Thriller Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2021-09-12
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Premonition
Overview: A Parisian lawyer moves to a working-class neighborhood in an attempt to shed his social conditioning and bourgeois values.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2006-10-04
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Liza
Overview: Liza meets the artist Giorgio and falls in love with him. She dreams of becoming the wife of Giorgio, but he is married. She dreams of being a close friend to him, but he has a favorite dog. Liza is ready for any sacrifice for the sake of her love. She kills Giorgio's dog and takes her place. Now she is a woman who always and everywhere follows her master.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-08-11
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The Great Meaulnes
Overview: A coming-of-age story set in France in the years leading up to World War I. Two teenage boys experience love, loss, anguish and betrayal in a rural setting of great beauty.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2006-10-04
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The Landlords
Overview: Directed by Rémi Waterhouse, Mille Millièmes is centered around an eccentric ensemble of apartment residents. Kindness is noticeably absent among their quarters, as demonstrated by a dating pair of neighbors whose request to have their apartments connected was flatly denied. To make matters worse, beggars gathering at a charity event are cruelly tormented by various tenants during the Christmas season. Last but not least is the Portuguese concierge whose services are in danger of being replaced by a more cost-effective alternative, and a widow whose recent loss earns her no sympathy from the rent-demanding landlords.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2002-08-07
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Justinien Trouve, or God's Bastard
Overview: Set in the French countryside in the 1600s, a lone rider deposits a newborn baby boy on the steps of a monastery, having bitten his nose off. The child is bought up by an ex-pirate and his wife and is taught to read, write, count, joust and fence, and is also given a wooden nose. However, he is ordered by a local baron to attend a tough seminary, but he soon rebels and makes an action-packed escape...
Genres: Comedy Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1993-09-15
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Stella
Overview: Paris, 1977. Eleven year old Stella knows poker better than grammar when she starts the year at a prestigious new school. There, she discovers the possibilities of a whole new world outside her parents' bar.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2008-11-12
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Baptême
Overview: In this film, director Rene Feret tells the story of his parents' lives. In 1935 his mother Aline works in her parents' cafe in a mining town in northern France. There, she meets a customer, Pierre and decides she is going to marry him. In a reversal of roles, she is the one who proposes to him, and she also engineers a false pregnancy to persuade her parents to okay the match. With a few stops along the way, the story picks up after the war with the birth of the couple's third son, who is given the name Rene in memory of their first, dead son. Never rich, they achieve some level of financial stability just as their sons are about to head off to the city for college. The love between the two older people is highlighted in a poignant scene as, just as he is about to die, the father shares a champagne toast with his wife in memory of one of their happier moments.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1989-08-23
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Summer Strolls
Overview: When a group of student actors travel to a workshop in Dordogne to put on a production of Shakespeare's As You Like It as a summer project, they are as lively and high-spirited a group as one could ask for. While they are there, the young man who has the leading role begins casting cow eyes at the director's wife (Valerie Stroh), and soon she and the boy are having an affair. By the end of the summer, the wife is sufficiently charmed to wonder how she could have gotten into this situation where she deeply loves both men.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1992-03-11
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A Man and Two Women
Overview: The film is a wonderfully accurate portrayal of the three stories: The stories are tied together with original dialogue and scenes by Martha / Anne / Freda / Judith (Valérie Stroh) and René Feret which follow a Golden Notebook/Anna Wulf theme: she is "writing" the stories and has a boyfriend named Paul who is a psychiatrist. A Man and Two Women: Anne, a young woman, a slightly bohemian painter: "in love" with her newborn, she abandons her husband while Isabelle, her best friend, attracted by to him and becomes little by little her rival. Each Other:Fréda finds her brother every morning in the secret of her bedroom,they leave themselves and incestuous effective becomes the only possible relationship for both. Our Friend Judith: Judith, a cold and warm intellectual, secret and complex - Beautiful, Judith is careful not to show it, she knows interment and that is enough. Intelligent, she does not bend to the rules of fashion nor seduction.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1991-10-30
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The Mystery of Alexina
Overview: In 1856, fresh from life with nuns in an orphanage school, Alexina Barbin comes to a coastal village in La Rochelle to teach the village girls. She is deeply religious. She shares the classroom and a bedroom with the young and vivacious Sara, with whom she falls in love. Alexina has another secret: her gender is mysterious. She and Sara begin a scandalous love affair, but Alexina seeks marriage and social acceptance. She discloses her secrets to the village priest, to her mother, to the bishop, and to the bishop's physician. After the church and court rule on her petition, marriage to Sara becomes Alexina's sole purpose and hope.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1985-09-25
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The Juliette Year
Overview: Camille Prader, back from a physicians' meeting, is waiting for his suitcase on the Airport conveyor belt. Clémentine, his girlfriend of the day, has come to fetch him. With a radiant smile, she tells Fabrice that she left everything to live with him. When Camille picks a case he realizes ha has taken the wrong one. The label shows it belongs to a musician called Juliette Graveur. Hegrasps the occasion to run away from Clémentine by claiming Juliette is his mistress....
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1995-03-20
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Marie-Line
Overview: A woman learns to care for others when she's forced to help people on the wrong side of the law in this drama. Marie-Line (Muriel Robin) is a single woman in her mid-forties who oversees the cleaning crew at a large office building. On the job, Marie-Line is all business, with no patience for laziness and no tolerance for employees who do less than a perfect job. But Marie-Line's bosses are in the midst of a money crunch and they've cut back on her budget, so when several of her employees quit, she has to find new cleaners willing to work for a lower wage. Marie-Line soon finds new workers willing to work hard for low pay, but there's a catch -- most of them are illegal aliens, smuggled into France from Africa, Albania, or the Middle East, and when police begin asking questions about Marie-Line's new cleaners, she has to scramble to cover for them.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2000-12-20
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Chut!
Overview: A young couple, Ines and Fred, have just moved into an apartment with a long corridor. After a few days, Ines hears strange noises and thinks she sees something. Trying to find out more, she gets scratched, but she doesn't know by whom or by what. Fred sees nothing and hears nothing. A tension arises between the two young people who do not understand each other. Is Ines going crazy or is it Fred who refuses to face reality?
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2002-10-18
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Frenchmen 3
Overview: Alex, Antoine and Manu meet Jean, a loner who ignores the pleasures of friendship. Little by little, they learn to know each other, to appreciate each other. Jean is moved by the complicity and affection that fuels the relationship with his new friends.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2013-10-23
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Eternity
Overview: Valentine marries at the end of the 19th century, and love passes through her family from generation to generation.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2016-09-07
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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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Frenchmen 2
Overview: Alex, Antoine, Jeff and Manu. Four friends, four years later. Their relationships, friendship, shared secrets, feelings of guilt and their desire to change and improve.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2007-10-24
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Confusion of Genders
Overview: Bisexual attorney Alain is bedding his female boss, his murderer client, the client's hairdresser girlfriend, and a precocious boy who knows what he wants and tries to convince Alain that he can 'have it all'.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2000-12-20
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Concode, an Epic Saga
Overview: Fifty years ago, on Sunday, 2 March 1969, Concorde flew for the first time. Starting from this inaugural flight, the film goes back in time to the origin of the conception of Concorde.
Genres: Documentary History TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2019-03-26
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Death on the Island
Overview: Violette Castillon, a young Parisian lawyer, goes to the Île de Ré where a criminal named Stany claims her to ensure his defense. In exchange, he will tell her the truth about his father, the late robber José Rocca. The day after Violette's arrival on the island, Stany is attacked, a notable from the region is found hanged and other misfortunes befall the island. While the dead are multiplying around her, Violette is determined to discover the truth.
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2008-10-06
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The Bear and the Doll
Overview: A quiet cellist living in the countryside has his life disrupted when he accidentally bumps into a wealthy, temperamental woman in a Rolls-Royce. Angered by his indifference to her charm, she attempts to seduce him, but he resists her attempts to invade his peaceful life.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1970-02-04
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