Marie Rivière
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Biography: Marie Rivière (born 22 December 1956) is a French actress and filmmaker. She is known for her collaborations with director Éric Rohmer. From a working-class background, Marie Rivière grew up on a housing estate/project in Montreuil before working as a schoolteacher, then as a shop assistant. At 21, having seen L'Amour l'après-midi, she sent a letter and photo to Éric Rohmer. He saw her in his office at Les films du losange, in the presence of Arielle Dombasle and Thierry Lhermitte, and offered her a small role in Perceval le Gallois. Two years later she appeared in Rohmer's The Aviator's Wife, the first in the Comédies et Proverbes series. The Green Ray, in which she played the fragile dreamer Delphine, was a critical and popular success, and won the Golden Lion at Venice. In 1998 she appeared again for Rohmer in Conte d'automne (Autumn Tale), alongside another Rohmer muse, Béatrice Romand. She co-directed her first film in 1993, with Marc Rivière, La Règle du Silence.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Montreuil, Seine [now Seine-Saint-Denis], France
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A Tale of Winter
Overview: Felicie and Charles have a whirlwind holiday romance. Due to a mix-up on addresses they lose contact, and five years later at Christmas-time Felicie is living with her mother in a cold Paris with a daughter as a reminder of that long-ago summer. For male companionship she oscillates between hairdresser Maxence and the intellectual Loic, but seems unable to commit to either as the memory of Charles and what might have been hangs over everything.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1992-01-29
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A Tale of Autumn
Overview: Magali, forty-something, is a winemaker and a widow: she loves her work but feels lonely. Her friends Rosine and Isabelle both want secretly to find a husband for Magali.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1998-09-07
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Time to Leave
Overview: Romain, 31, a fashion photographer with terminal cancer, elects to die alone, preparing others to live past him rather than prolong the inevitable with chemotherapy or be smothered in sympathy by those who know him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2005-05-16
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The Lady and the Duke
Overview: Grace Dalrymple Elliot is a British aristocrat trapped in Paris during the French Revolution. Determined to maintain her stiff upper lip and pampered life despite the upheaval, Grace continues her friendship with the Duke of Orléans while risking her life and liberty to protect a fugitive.
Genres: Drama History Romance War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2001-09-07
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The Aviator's Wife
Overview: A student is devastated when he finds that his girlfriend is cheating on him. In order to find out why she did it, he decides to spy on her and her airline pilot lover. Then he sees the pilot with a blonde woman and he begins to follow them…
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1981-03-04
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Raison perdue
Overview: A young girl accuses her parents of being murderers. Hurriedly committed to an asylum, she attracts the attention of a psychologist who is determined to get to the bottom of the story. At her own risk.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery TV Movie Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1984-12-05
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Folie suisse
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Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1985-06-10
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The Stolen Diary
Overview: A young woman in a lesbian relationship keeps a diary that is stolen by a young man who loves her.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1993-04-28
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Girls Can't Swim
Overview: Gwen is a teenager living in a small coastal town. Lise is her best friend, a city girl who comes every year with her family to spend the summer. This year things are different though; at first Lise might not come at all, and when she does it is obvious that Gwen grew up faster than she did.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2000-10-18
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Hideaway (Le refuge)
Overview: Mousse and Louis are young, beautiful, rich and in love. But drugs have invaded their lives. One day, they overdose and Louis dies. Mousse survives, but soon learns she's pregnant. Feeling lost, Mousse runs away to a house far from Paris. Several months later, Louis' brother joins her in her refuge.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2009-12-11
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Marinaleda
Overview: Marinaleda features two philosophical vampires trying to reach the self-managed village of Marinaleda in southern Spain.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2023-01-29
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Les lutteurs immobiles
Overview: The consumer society is dead. Welcome to the preservation society! As of their first school year, children are taught to love objects, which most of them do. But not all citizens. To remedy the problem, The security forces crack down on vandals, bands of protesters and other iconoclasts. And for greater efficiency the States uses the services of Kief, a mad scientist who operates on prisoners so as to pair them with totem-objects. Which is why Judith gets wrinkles when her clothes are creased. Which is why the skin of librarian Mikoski gets pierced with holes whenever rats gnaw at his books.
Genres: Science Fiction TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1988-08-02
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My Sense of Modesty
Overview: Hafsia, a student in Art History, is going to have to remove her hijab for an oral exam. She goes to the Louvre to view the painting that she has to comment on.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2013-06-07
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The Green Ray
Overview: A lonely Parisian woman comes to terms with her isolation and anxieties during a long summer vacation.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1986-08-29
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Just the Two of Us
Overview: When Blanche meets Grégoire, she thinks she has found the one. The ties that bind them grow quickly, and a passionate affair ensues. Together, they relocate. For Blanche, far from her family, from her twin sister, Rose, a new life begins. But little by little, she finds herself caught in the grip of a deeply possessive and dangerous man.
Genres: Thriller Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2023-05-24
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Under the Snow
Overview: In a city covered by snow, the young Paul lives alone with his mother since his father left. Not far away, lives an old man of foreign origin with whom Paul has a strange relationship.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2012-11-02
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Memory Lane
Overview: August in Paris' suburbs, seven friends are gathered to spend a week in the city where they grew up. The city is empty and the days pass by under a deep blue sky. Each of them has a reason to be there: some still live there, some come back to see their family, some are searching their childhood, some want to escape boredom or eventually searching for love. They are all bearing the fact that these moments they are sharing are maybe the last ones.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2010-11-24
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Life the Way It Is
Overview: Agnes leaves school and moves with a friend to a housing project in Bagnolet. Engaged as a clerk, she becomes associate staff after the dismissal of a colleague.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1978-01-01
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Le bonheur se porte large
Overview: Bruno Tessier, a wise executive, was on his way to join his wife and children on vacation on the Côte d'Azur when a hitchhiker forced her presence on him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1988-06-15
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Bright Days Ahead
Overview: Bright days ahead? Caroline has retired, at last. A new life lies before her: time to take care of her children, her husband, and, most of all, herself. However, she soon comes to realize that this new freedom is synonymous with boredom and idleness. Especially when she receives a membership to her neighborhood’s senior club as a birthday present… Reluctant at first, she nevertheless decides to take the plunge. Oddly enough, she meets great people there, starting with the young computer science teacher, who is far from insensitive to her charms. Caroline gradually takes control of her life again and lives a second youth: taking a new lover, living new experiences, breaking the rules, not doing what’s expected of her… Who said that retirement was the beginning of the end and not a new beginning?
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2013-06-19
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Le Canapé rouge
Overview: How to stay at your lover's side (who's married to another woman) all day long without anyone noticing...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2005-06-30
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Shreklife
Overview: Five childhood friends reunite for the first time after the death of their classmate Pedro, an unconditional Shrek fan. They are entrusted with an important mission: to honor the memory of the deceased by scattering his ashes at Shrekfest, a festival in honor of the green ogre and taking place in Wisconsin, USA.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
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Rosette vend des roses
Overview: A short film directed by and starring Rosette, best known for her acting work with Éric Rohmer, featuring a star-studded cast and crew of regular players from Rohmer films. With the help of her friends, Rosette takes advantage of a gullible stranger passing by in order to sell him all her roses.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1985-01-01
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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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Sex, Love & Therapy
Overview: Lambert, a recovering sex addict, tries to redeem himself by becoming a marriage counsellor. He stays abstinent for several months, but his alluring assistant's unbridled sexuality tests his resolve.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2014-10-01
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Clandestino
Overview: A child, secret war refugee, deceived by his father, is taken in by a man living in the solitude of a garden between sea and mountain. Left to his own devices, he must find his own way as he is shunted around between untrustworthy adults. A modern tale.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2003-10-01
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Zéro défaut
Overview: A car factory, assembly lines, robots. And men and women whose... Michèle moves to the night shift, with the secret hope of changing her hours to change her life. Farouk is retiring after 35 years on the line. Suddenly, the stop, the silence. Jeremie, Michèle's husband, is a team leader in the sheet metal and finishing workshop, a job that costs him too much. 13 hours to make a car. How many days for a love to be born or broken?
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2003-05-05
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Adrien's Sleep
Overview: Marie lives with her daughter in a large Parisian apartment. She rents a room to a student: Adrien.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-01-01
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Down by Love
Overview: A man, a woman. A prison director, his inmate. An impossible love, a true story.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2016-03-02
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Catherine de Heilbronn
Overview: In the Middle Ages, the earl Wetter von Stahl is accused of having bewitched Catherine, the daughter of the blacksmith of Heilbronn. The earl tries to be exonerated by proceeding himself to the interrogation of the young woman, who apparently shows an "unnatural possession".
Genres: History Drama TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1980-01-01
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This Summer Feeling
Overview: In high summer, Sasha suddenly dies. Her death brings two virtual strangers, her boyfriend Lawrence and sister Zoé, closer together, sharing their grief and the burden of their loss in Berlin, Paris and New York.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2015-10-11
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In the Company of Éric Rohmer
Overview: Éric Rohmer converses with collaborators and admirers.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2010-08-24
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Chassé-croisé
Overview: Passionate about music, Julien nevertheless works with a sculptor. One day, he meets young Hermine at a religious bookseller.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1982-03-24
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Muriel's Parents Are Desperate
Overview: In this coming of age drama, 17-year old Muriel rebels against her French family and leaves for the bright lights of Paris. When she falls for Nora, Muriel enters a journey of heartbreak and discovery.
Genres: Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1995-10-17
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Love Is in the Air
Overview: Yann Kerbec is a flight instructor: he evaluates pilots’ abilities under extreme conditions on flight simulators. But Yann has a big problem: he is so airsick since he was born in a plane, that he couldn’t even follow the love of his life when she moved to Australia. Yann is now thirty years old and remembers with both nostalgia and humour the numerous love stories he spoiled because of his phobia. Will he finally accept to become a grown up or will he keep making plans in the air?
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2005-06-17
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Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle
Overview: Two young girls meet, Reinette from the countryside and Mirabelle from Paris, and decide to take a flat together in Paris where they attend University. Four successive stories about their daily lives illustrate the very different views, characters and relation to the world of these two friends.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1987-02-04
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Madeleine and the Two Apaches
Overview: A short film by French director Christelle Lheureux.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2014-06-13
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Rosette cherche une chambre
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1987-01-01
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Rosette sort le soir
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1983-01-01
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Rosette vole les voleurs
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1988-01-01
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Samia
Overview: Samia is a teenage girl belonging to a family of Algerian Muslims who have settled in the southern French town of Marseilles. Although lured by the pleasures and opportunities that contemporary Western culture offers her, Samia is continually restrained by her family. Naturally, they expect her to follow their traditions to the letter and, for a woman, this means staying at home all day looking after their men folk. In the end, Samia has no option but to rebel against her family and find a new life for herself…
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2000-11-15
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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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Médiumnité
Overview: A young woman unsatisfied with her life and her marriage discovers gifts of medium.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1978-10-30
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Féminin plurielles
Overview: Sweet works in a hospital as a nurse. A new patient has just been admitted. Her mysterious side and her literary tastes fascinate the young woman. Delphine, executive in the same establishment, welcomes a German photographer who came for a report. The attraction is immediate between the two women. Hafsia, who wears the veil and could be refused an exam, meets an exuberant young man whom she falls in love with. She must hide this relationship from her father ...
Genres: Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2018-03-07
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Courted
Overview: When a feared judge of the French court, Xavier Racine, encounters a French-Danish juror, Ditte Lorensen-Coteret, at a murder trial, their shared past is slowly uncovered.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2015-11-18
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El Turrrf
Overview: Paris, at night. Pierre lands up in a club, El Turrrf, and meets two young ladies. Pom and Clémentine are accustomed to the place and are not going to delay saying to him why they are here.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2013-11-12
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Cinématon
Overview: Cinématon is a 156-hour long experimental film by French director Gérard Courant. It was the longest film ever released until 2011. Composed over 36 years from 1978 until 2006, it consists of a series of over 2,821 silent vignettes (cinématons), each 3 minutes and 25 seconds long, of various celebrities, artists, journalists and friends of the director, each doing whatever they want for the allotted time. Subjects of the film include directors Barbet Schroeder, Nagisa Oshima, Volker Schlöndorff, Ken Loach, Benjamin Cuq, Youssef Chahine, Wim Wenders, Joseph Losey, Jean-Luc Godard, Samuel Fuller and Terry Gilliam, chess grandmaster Joël Lautier, and actors Roberto Benigni, Stéphane Audran, Julie Delpy and Lesley Chatterley. Gilliam is featured eating a 100-franc note, while Fuller smokes a cigar. Courant's favourite subject was a 7-month-old baby. The film was screened in its then-entirety in Avignon in November 2009 and was screened in Redondo Beach, CA on April 9, 2010.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1978-12-20
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Venus Beauty Institute
Overview: Aging beautician Angèle, already wounded by a long-ago romance, gets awkwardly dumped at a train station. Witnessing how she turns around a humiliating situation, younger sculptor Antoine becomes so smitten that he breaks up with his fiancée and sets out to win Angèle's heart. Meanwhile, Angèle attempts to quash the budding romance of her young co-worker, Marie, and a much older widowed client, despite their obvious rapport.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1999-02-03
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Dark Flow
Overview: As every summer, a man and a woman spend time in their country house by the forest. They have moved further from each other. This intimate place opens a passage.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2020-02-02
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Cinématon XVIII
Overview: Reel 18 of Gérard Courant's on-going Cinematon series.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1982-05-04
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Actresses
Overview: Marcelline is an actress. Forty, single and childless, she begins rehearsals for Turgenev’s A Month in the Country. Denis, the director, admires her greatly and promises he’ll make her happy on stage — she will shine. But things don’t go to plan.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2007-12-26
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My Donkey, My Lover & I
Overview: Antoinette, a school teacher, is looking forward to her long planned summer holidays with her secret lover Vladimir, the father of one of her pupils. When learning that Vladimir cannot come because his wife organized a surprise trekking holiday in the Cévennes National Park with their daughter and a donkey to carry their load, Antoinette decides to follow their track, by herself, with Patrick, a protective donkey.
Genres: Comedy Adventure Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2020-09-16
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The Adventures of Rosette
Overview: A series of stories told by Rosette about her vacation. Filmed in super 8 by Eric Rohmer.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1983-04-02
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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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Eva voudrait
Overview: Éva, thirty-nine, lives alone. She would like to have a child. She may not have much time left. A gynecologist has just told her that her ovarian reserve is deplorable. The countdown begins. But she's instinctive, a bit messy and her battle plan lacks precision.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2020-09-20
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A Castle in Italy
Overview: Louise meets Nathan, her dreams resurface. It's also the story of her ailing brother, their mother, and the destiny of a leading family of wealthy Italian industrialists. The story of a family falling apart, a world coming to an end and love beginning.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2013-10-30
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Température ambiante
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2024-06-08
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Queen Mom
Overview: Amel and her family learn that their landlord wants to get his apartment back in a few months. While Mouna, her eldest daughter, begins to have visions of Charles Martel, and their request for new social housing drags on, Amel has no choice but to reinvent herself.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2025-03-12
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Bonus Malus
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2024-10-01
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The Asembly Line
Overview: A few months after May '68, Robert, a graduate of the Ecole Normale Supérieure and a far-left activist, decides to get a job at Citroën as a line worker. Like other comrades, he wants to infiltrate the factory to rekindle the revolutionary fire, but the majority of workers no longer want to hear about politics. When Citroën decides to pay back the Grenelle Agreements by requiring workers to work 3 hours overtime per week for free, Robert and some others see the possibility of a social movement.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2023-04-05
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La nuit du coucou
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1987-11-05
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Washed Ashore
Overview: Elise lives alone in an apartment on the coast of Brittany. ONe day, on an isolated beach where she regulary goes to swim, she discovers the body of a woman who ha drowned. Who was this woman ?
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2011-06-17
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À pied d’œuvre
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Original Language: fr
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Deux rivages
Overview: One day, Ovidiu makes a strange discovery in the pond next to his house: a stained woman's jacket. This discovery will push him on a quest to find a body and force him to look towards a distant, forgotten shore-that of the Danube, the bloodiest border of communist Romania.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2015-05-16
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