Philippe Magnan
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Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Paris, France
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Une journée de merde !
Overview: This is an important day for Marc Chanois, an insurance advisor heading toward middle age: it's his fiancée Sabine's birthday, her parents arrive in Paris and Marc will meet them for dinner to announce the engagement (her father can't stand him), he's bought Sabine a Spitfire, and his most important client is to sign a policy. But, as the day wears on, he's vexed by an incompetent secretary, the unexpected return of a girlfriend he hasn't seen in five years, squatters who use his office at night, the jealous former lover of a flight attendant who lives in the building, and his boss's unexpected return from a Swiss clinic. Will he reach Sabine in one piece?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1999-03-03
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Groupe Flag: Vrai ou faux
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Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-09-23
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An Officer and a Spy
Overview: In 1894, French Captain Alfred Dreyfus is wrongfully convicted of treason and sentenced to life imprisonment at the Devil’s Island penal colony.
Genres: History Drama Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2019-09-30
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Bank Error in Your Favour
Overview: After working with the bank for a long time, Julien decides to open a restaurant with his best friend. Unfortunately, when the bank refuses to grant him a loan, he comes up with a plan.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2009-04-08
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The Children of the Marshland
Overview: The film is set in Marais, a quiet region along the banks of Loire river in 1918. Riton is afflicted with a bad-tempered wife and three unruly children. Garris lives alone with his recollections of World War I trenches. Their daily life consists of seasonal work and visits from their two pals: Tane, the local train conductor and Amédée, a dreamer and voracious reader of classics.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1999-03-03
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The Other Dumas
Overview: Alexandre Dumas, at the height of his career, takes Auguste Maquet, his chief literary collaborator or 'ghost writer' ten years his junior, to meet a young unknown admirer, Charlotte Desrives. The two men are at the summit of their artistic collaboration for they have just published "The Count of Monte Christo", "Queen Margot" and "The Three Musketeers". If it's Maquet who writes the majority of the texts, both the honours and fame go to Dumas.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2010-02-10
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Would I Lie to You: The Beginning
Overview: In 1980s Paris - Patrick, Dov, Yvan and Serge are young men seeking success in love and business... with varying success.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2019-10-16
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The Perfume of Yvonne
Overview: It is the summer of 1958 in wealthy Lake Geneva, where an enigmatic young Frenchman begins an affair with a beautiful starlet under the watchful eye of her flamboyant elderly mentor. But in a season full of secrets, is truth the most elusive passion of all?
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1994-03-24
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The Widow of Saint-Pierre
Overview: In 1850, on the isolated French island of Saint-Pierre, a murder shocks the natives. Two fishermen are arrested. One of them, Louis Ollivier, dies in custody. The other, Neel Auguste, is sentenced to death by the guillotine. The island is so small that it has neither a guillotine nor an executioner. While those are sent for Auguste is placed under the supervision of an army Captain.
Genres: Romance Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2000-04-19
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Half a Chance
Overview: Alice Tomaso gets out of jail, and goes looking for Léo and Julien, one of whom, it appears, is her father. On the way, she steals the wrong car - one belonging to the Russian mafia, and arrives at her destination with a gang of thugs out looking for her and the car.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1998-03-25
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Libre échange
Overview: Marthe meets Jocelyne in the streets of Brussels. Everyone has their own little problems with their husbands. Little by little, their destinies will change.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2010-12-22
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The Art of Love
Overview: Several interconnected chapters follow a variety of Parisian couples navigating love, desire, and relationships. Isabelle, frustrated by a year of celibacy, rejects her friend Zoé’s offer to "borrow" her husband and instead impersonates their mutual friend Amélie, who cannot bring herself to sleep with her close friend Boris. Meanwhile, the lonely Achille is stunned when his alluring new neighbor appears at his door in a negligee, proposing an affair. Elsewhere, middle-aged Emmanuelle struggles with an overwhelming attraction to every handsome man she encounters, threatening her marriage, while a young couple wrestles with jealousy. Each chapter delves into the unpredictability of love with humor and poignancy.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2011-11-23
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The Princess of Montpensier
Overview: Set in the high courts of 16th Century France, where the wars of religion between Catholics and Protestants are raging. Marie de Mézières, a beautiful young aristocrat, is in love with Henri de Guise, but her hand in marriage is promised to the Prince of Montpensier.
Genres: Action Drama History Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2010-11-03
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Arsène Lupin
Overview: As the daring thief Arsène Lupin ransacks the homes of wealthy Parisians, the police, with a secret weapon in their arsenal, attempt to ferret him out.
Genres: Romance Action Adventure Crime Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2004-10-13
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Marie-Octobre
Overview: After the Liberation of France during the World War II, ten former Resistant fighters meet again during a dinner organized by Marie-Octobre...
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2008-10-15
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Féroce
Overview: Gilles de Maistre's political thriller Féroce (Ferocious) is about a man seeking revenge. Arab Alain (Samy Naceri) decides to join a fascistic French political party in order to assassinate the leader, Legle (Jean-Marc Thibault). Alain comes to this decision when his girlfriend's brother is murdered after he had defaced some of the party's paraphernalia. To improve the party's public stance on immigrants, Alain is hired as a security guard. Legle's daughter is attracted to Alain, who is tempted enough by the girl to abandon some of his religious convictions.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2002-04-17
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Gregoire Moulin vs. Humanity
Overview: Grégoire Moulin, a shy accountant, sets up a blind date with a dance teacher at a bar. What he needed to do was just to cross the road. But it didn't happen to be as easy as it seems especially because of the final game of French soccer championship the very same night!
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2001-09-26
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L'opposition
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2021-07-14
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L'année des guignols - Une ispice di counasse d'année !!
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2002-06-30
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Seventh Heaven
Overview: A bored, sexually frustrated woman's life improves when she begins hypnotherapy and tries feng shui, but her husband's life unravels.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1997-12-17
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Les Grands Enfants
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Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1998-08-03
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Les gagneurs
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1995-08-03
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Ce que vivent les roses
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Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2018-01-09
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Mauvaises affaires
Overview: An investigating judge uncovers a corruption case in which his own politician brother is compromised.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1997-12-13
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Charlie Says
Overview: The seemingly separate lives of a group of men intersect entwining the fates of each of them over the course of a week.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2006-07-27
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Bullit & Riper
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2020-12-26
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Le Placard
Overview: François Pignon, an accountant in a condom factory, learns that he is going to be fired. Already overwhelmed by personal problems, he decides to throw himself out the window. He is stopped in his tracks by his next-door neighbor who suggests an unexpected plan to keep his job: pretend to be a homosexual. Assuming that in this age of political correctness, one does not fire a gay man, he manages to convince Pignon to play along while remaining a discreet and shy little man... What will change is the way others look at him. Pignon will thus benefit from an unusual reintegration by coming out of a closet where he had never entered.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2015-05-29
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22 Bullets
Overview: A retired mobster goes on a revenge spree after being left for dead with 22 bullets in his body by his former childhood friend.
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2010-03-23
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Nothing to Declare
Overview: During the elimination of the Belgian/French border in the 90s, a Belgian customs officer is forced to team up with one of his French counterparts.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2010-12-20
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Mom Lost It!
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Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2009-12-15
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L'Affaire Salengro
Overview: July 1936. Leon Blum's (Daniel Mesguich) left-wing coalition government is facing one of the hardest strikes paralyzing the whole country's economy. But one man alone is about to get the French people back to work, and peacefully: Roger Salengro (Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu).
Genres: History TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2009-04-13
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La Fille du chef
Overview: A once-famous chef tries to find reconciliation with his hotel manager daughter, only to be mistaken for a tourist guide critic.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2006-01-24
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My Worst Nightmare
Overview: Agathe runs an art gallery. Her husband François is a publisher. Together they have one son, and in every way seem to be the picture of normality — but emotions are stewing under the surface. All it takes is the arrival of a complete stranger for things to start unravelling. Patrick is brash, uncouth and totally unselfconscious...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2011-09-12
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The Magic Tuche
Overview: After a groundbreaking presidential election, Jeff Tuche becomes the new President of France and moves in the Elysee with his family to govern the country.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2018-01-31
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Espèces menacées
Overview: An accountant, presumed honest, inadvertently finds 7 million francs in his bag and decides to change his life.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2001-05-07
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Chacun chez soi
Overview: Pierre Bazeille, a writer seeking a quiet place to work, sublets Félice's home, artist / sculptor in the Lot. While he is manic, meticulous and discreet, she is messy, cyclothymic and unpredictable. Living together will not go peacefully.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2000-01-01
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The Valet
Overview: Caught by tabloid paparazzi with his mistress Elena, a famous and beautiful fashion model, billionaire Pierre Levasseur tries to avoid a divorce by inventing a preposterous lie. He uses the presence of a passerby in the photo to claim to his wife that it's not him Elena is seeing but the other man, one François Pignon. Pignon is a modest little man who works as a parking valet. To make the story convincing, Elena has to move in with Pignon.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2006-03-29
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Spread Your Wings
Overview: Christian, a visionary scientist, studies wild geese. For his son, a teenager obsessed with video games, the idea of spending a holiday with his father in the wilderness is a nightmare. However, father and son will get together around a crazy project: save a species endangered, thanks to the ultralight of Christian! Then begins an incredible and perilous journey ...
Genres: Adventure Family
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2019-09-12
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Farewell
Overview: An intricate thriller about an ordinary man thrust into the biggest theft of Soviet information of the Cold War. Right after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. A French businessman based in Moscow, Pierre Froment, makes an unlikely connection with Grigoriev, a senior KGB officer disenchanted with what the Communist ideal has become under Brezhnev. Grigoriev begins passing Froment highly sensitive information about the Soviet spy network in the US.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2009-09-23
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Ten Minutes from Naturists
Overview: Family caretakers Brussels advantage of the absence of his patrons to exchange a beautiful property against a holiday villa in Sunset Island ... They just did not know a small detail: Island Sunset is 100% nude! Meanwhile, the Levantains arrive in Brussels to promote a directive that could undress throughout Europe...
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2012-03-04
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Petite menteuse
Overview: Take a handsome, friendly 40-year-old family man looking for a job. Put him in a room with a young executive woman, who's single, resolute and yearning for motherhood. Add a delightful little pony-tailed siren named Laura. Sprinkle with smiles and tuck into a charming tale... It's just that delightful little siren sometimes turn out to be terrible liars and a young "widower" can conceal a happily married man, wibly in love with his wife. Trouble's brewing...
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1998-03-28
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Palace sur scène
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Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2020-09-12
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Ridicule
Overview: To get royal backing on a needed drainage project, a poor French lord must learn to play the delicate games of wit at court at Versailles.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1996-05-09
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Never Say... Never!
Overview: Paris, 1830. Valentin loses himself in alcohol, gambling and women. He does not believe in life and especially not in love. His uncle Van Buck believes only in the virtues of money and trade. Everything separates them until the day when Van Buck, to improve his public image, wants to make Valentin marry the young and impoverished Baroness Cécile. Valentin, who has absolutely no desire to get married, bets that he can easily seduce her in 24 hours and thus prove that she, like all the others, is not worth loving... But Cécile, who believes in true love, will prove much more difficult to woo than envisaged and Valentin will have to use all possible stratagems to try and win his bet. The game of cat and mouse starts... But who is the cat?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2005-09-28
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Changer la vie !
Overview: A documentary drama retelling the shift of Mitterand's policy. In May 1981, F.Mitterrand is elected President of the Republic, after more than twenty years in the opposition. He wants to change the life; he believes in the supremacy of politics over economics. He wants it to be fast and executes his programme to realise the socialist transformation. Two years later, Pierre Mauroy and Jacques Delors introduce an unprecedented austerity plan and open the parenthesis of austerity... that would never be closed.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2011-05-10
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One 4 All
Overview: Olivia, Irina and Masha are improving their acting skills. They no longer believe in Prince Charming, and their career is waning. Olivia works at the front desk at the airport and offers a wonderful plan: he would do so that friends will be aboard the Paris - New York plane and will sit next to wealthy men. Their task is to seduce the rich and pull them out of money. But the fraudsters do not suspect that Comissaire Bayard and his young assistant are closely watching them...
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1999-12-29
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L'Année des Guignols - Un Jean-Pierre ça peut tout faire
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2004-06-30
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L'Année des Guignols - Je peux dire une connerie ?
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Genres: Comedy Animation Family
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2001-06-30
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L'année des guignols - Qu'est-ce t'as, t'es pas content ?
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Genres: Comedy Animation Family
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2006-06-30
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The Poisoner
Overview: Loudun, October 1947. Leon Besnard and Marie celebrate their eighteenth wedding anniversary with friends and Ady, a former German prisoner they have "adopted". A few days later, Leon dies. Louise, a friend of the couple's and probably Leon's mistress claims that, on his deathbed, the deceased told her that Marie was poisoning him. The whole town soon condemns Marie and she is arrested and sent to jail. Did she really kill Léon as well as twelve other members of her family as she finds herself charged with?
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2006-09-03
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René Bousquet ou le grand arrangement
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Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2007-11-16
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Our Dream Lives
Overview: Bénédicte, Martine, and Juliette were classmates who formed an inseparable trio. Fifteen years later, Bénédicte and Martine return to their small native town of Pithiviers for Juliette's funeral. But Juliette remains present in Bénédicte and Martine's remembrances and through her eighteen-year-old daughter Scarlett, who bears a striking resemblance.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2004-04-06
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Jean Moulin
Overview: The life (and death under torture) of Jean Moulin, head of the French Interior Resistance movements during WWII.
Genres: History Drama TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2002-07-15
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