Marie Bunel
Also Known As: Marie-Laure Bunel, Marie-Laurence Bunel, Marie Laurence Bunel
Biography: Marie Bunel (born 1961) is a French film and stage actress. Bunel was born on 27 May 1961 in Saint-Maur-des-Fossés, Val-de-Marne, France. She attended the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute in West Hollywood, California and took classes from Blanche Salant at the American Center of Paris. She is married to actor Vincent Winterhalter, whose late father was actor Vania Vilers (1938-2009). Source: Article "Marie Bunel" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Champigny-sur-Marne, Val-de-Marne, France
Birthday: May 27, 1961
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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Au petit Marguery
Overview: Hippolyte, the chef at the small Paris restaurant of the title, is losing his sense of smell - and without that, you can’t cook. Not in France. The restaurant has to close. Guests and customers of the ailing master chef gather for one last fabulous meal. Between courses, personal conflicts are explored and flashbacks flesh out incidents from the lives of the restaurant owners.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1995-11-08
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The French Revolution: Years of Rage
Overview: Second part of the revolutionary historical drama, which takes up the events that occurred from August 10, 1792 until the end of the reign of terror with the execution of Robespierre.
Genres: Drama War History Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1989-05-10
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Dolça
Overview: In a small Southern town in France, Dolça, a nineteen years old girl, builds a close relationship with Sam, the little boy she babysits. But her relation with Sam is turning upside-down when she meets his father: a newly divorced handsome man.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-01-01
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The Blood of Others
Overview: In the German-occupied Paris, Helene is torn between the love for her boyfriend Jean, working for the resistance and the German administrator Bergmann, who will do anything to gain her affection.
Genres: TV Movie Romance Drama War History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-08-25
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The Chorus
Overview: In 1940s France, a new teacher at a school for disruptive boys gives hope and inspiration.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2004-03-17
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A Girl Cut in Two
Overview: A TV weather girl is torn between an older man, a famous married author whom she loves but who won't leave his wife, and a semi-deranged young heir to an industrial fortune who loves her.
Genres: Comedy Drama Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2007-08-08
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Saint-Jacques... La Mecque
Overview: Three siblings who detest each other and hiking must complete together a pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela in order to be eligible to inherit their mother's wealth.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2005-10-12
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Little Girl Blue
Overview: In 2016, French writer and photographer Carole Achache took her own life. After Carole's death, her daughter Mona Achache, a film director, discovers thousands of photos, letters and recordings that Carole left behind, but these buried secrets make her disappearance even more of an enigma. Through the power of filmmaking and the beauty of incarnation with the help of actress Marion Cotillard, the director brings her mother back to life to retrace her journey and find out who she really was.
Genres: Drama History Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2023-11-01
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Close to Leo
Overview: When 21 year-old Leo, the oldest of four brothers, announces to his rural French family that he's HIV positive, his family quickly rallies around him. Leo travels to Paris with his youngst brother Marcel for treatment. When Leo tries to push his brother away to protect him, the love and loyalty of the two brothers is tested.
Genres: Drama Family TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2002-05-18
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The White Line
Overview: Jean, a respected theater actor, leads a dissolute life. Separated from the mother of his child, he devotes most of his time to work, alcohol, and women. Sylvain in full adolescence, feels the need to get closer to his father. On a whim, both of them leave to join an old friend of Jean, Bob the American, who lives on an isolated ranch. From then on, they will try to apprehend each other, with clumsiness, hesitation and sometimes even violence.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2010-08-31
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Demandez la permission aux enfants !
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2007-04-04
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Bellamy
Overview: A well known Parisian inspector becomes involved in an investigation while on holiday.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2009-02-25
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Seventeen Times Cécile Cassard
Overview: A portrait of a woman, composed of 17 moments from her life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2002-05-17
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La femme à abattre
Overview: A policeman discovers during a case that he is investigating himself. His wife has witnessed a terrorist attack committed by her lover.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1993-07-07
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The Discreet
Overview: There is an author who has been dumped by his girlfriend and has no inspiration for a next novel. In an attempt to find a solution to both crises, he, along with his publisher friend, decides to seduce a young woman with the singular purpose of keeping a diary of the seduction and then dump her before publishing the book about it. Unfortunately he falls in love with her.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1990-11-21
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Mauvaise Blague
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Genres: Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2022-03-11
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L'Hôtel de la plage
Overview: Visitors young and old get up to fun antics and romance at a seaside hotel in Brittany, France.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1978-01-11
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War of the Buttons
Overview: Occupied France; Lebrac leads a play war between two rival kid gangs, but a girl he likes, who's Jewish, is in danger of being discovered by local Nazi sympathisers. Lebrac and the village must now respond to the reality of what's happening.
Genres: Adventure Family
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2011-09-21
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Délit d'innocence
Overview: A father and son in constant conflict. The father, a fisherman boss, has rejected his fatherly love for his young sailor. He can't understand why his son wants to be an actor and still lives at home. The two men, though united by blood, no longer understand each other and will continue to tear each other apart when the truth comes out.
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Original Language: fr
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Le Gaffeur
Overview: A good country priest discovers that he is a father and must assume his role, a task all the more delicate since his son is a thug.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1985-09-04
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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
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Family Pack
Overview: A young woman tries to ease herself out of the closet without terrifying her parents in the process in this comedy-drama. The year is 1969, and Sacha (Marie Bunel) is a young Belgian woman living in Canada. Sacha's family sent her to Canada to attend medical school, but she hasn't had the heart to tell them that she's dropped out of college to devote herself to her new interest in photography. Sacha also hasn't told her parents that she's a lesbian -- and that she has a new girlfriend, Odile (Macha Grenon). Odile is tired of being kept a secret, and insists that Sacha tell her parents the truth before American astronauts land on the moon in a few months -- or else. Sacha flies home to Belgium for a visit, planning to come clean to her folks, but she discovers they've arranged a huge welcome home party for the entire neighborhood. With everyone so excited that the soon-to-be-doctor is paying them a visit, Sacha wonders when the time will be right to give her family the news.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2001-07-04
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Christmas Carole
Overview: It’s Christmas! Small-town mayoress Carole helps the inhabitants of her municipality with the festivities while her devoted husband Alain organises the Christ- mas Eve celebrations at home. The kids arrive, and soon all hopes of a peaceful Christmas melt away as the family traditions are challenged. Wine is okay but only if it’s natural, Christmas decorations must remain unlit and no more foie gras for Alain... On earth as well as around the table, climate is warming up while everybody’s waiting for the big news that the eldest daughter is supposed to announce.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2024-11-14
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Rêve d'automne
Overview: A man and a woman who loved each other find themselves in a cemetery. He is here to attend the funeral of his grandmother, she let herself be lured by this place without really knowing why. The man's parents, who have come to pour out their reproaches, gravitate around the lovers who desire each other and inevitably get closer. But what did they really experience? And do they still have something to live for?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2010-01-10
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Rêves d'automne
Overview: A man and a woman who loved each other find themselves in a cemetery. He is here to attend the funeral of his grandmother, she let herself be lured by this place without really knowing why. The man's parents, who have come to pour out their reproaches, gravitate around the lovers who desire each other and inevitably get closer. But what did they really experience? And do they still have something to live for?
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2012-03-16
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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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The Party 2
Overview: A young French teenage girl after moving to a new city falls in love with a boy and is thinking of having sex with him because her girlfriends have already done it.
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1982-12-08
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Sweet Sixty
Overview: At sixty years old, two friends in financial difficulties are going to take advantage of their image in the fashion and advertising world. One is still beautiful, the other never was. But beyond the game of appearances, what does it really mean to be of retirement age today?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2023-06-14
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Jappeloup
Overview: A true sports story that utterly defies the odds, Duguay’s film captures the wild ups and downs of the Olympics-bound career of legendary equine star Jappeloup and his troubled rider, locked in a tense relationship with his horseman father and forever uncertain of his own skills as an equestrian
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2013-03-13
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Pasteur, l'homme qui a vu
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Genres: History TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2011-03-29
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An Accidental Soldier
Overview: An unexpected love story set in WW1 France between a young Australian baker who has deserted the front line, and a grieving French woman, who puts her own life at risk by sheltering him from the authorities.
Genres: Drama War TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-09-14
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Our Futures
Overview: A face-to-face meeting behind closed doors on the theme of Amazon deforestation brings together two heads of state. At the same time, a school director accompanies a student particularly concerned by the climate emergency to an unknown destination.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2023-03-28
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Mollusk
Overview: Erné Couteau, a lazy and naive young man, overcomes his shyness to attend a strange job interview that will change his life forever.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2023-03-29
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Le Procès de Bobigny
Overview: In 1972 16-year-old Marie-Claire became pregnant after a rape. With help from her mother Michelle and three other women, she underwent a clandestine abortion. Under a 1920 law, the five women were arrested and charged. Supported by a procession of well-known French (eg Simone de Beauvoir), the five were released and the law was adapted.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2006-03-29
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The French Minister
Overview: Alexandre Taillard de Vorms is a force to be reckoned with. With his silver mane and tanned, athletic body, he stalks the world stage as Minister of Foreign Affairs for France, waging his own war backed up by the holy trinity of diplomatic concepts: legitimacy, lucidity, and efficacy. Enter Arthur Vlaminck. Hired to write the minister's speeches, Arthur must contend with the sensibilities of his boss and the dirty dealings within the Quai d'Orsay, the ministry's home.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2013-11-06
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Gito the Ungrateful
Overview: Back home in Bujumbura with a Parisian diploma in his pocket and expecting to walk into a civil service job, Gito finds himself both unemployed and caught between two women: his current French girlfriend Christine and his local old flame Flora.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1992-01-02
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Loulou
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Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2023-09-16
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Story of Women
Overview: France, World War II. In order to somehow make ends meet, the mother of two children, Marie Latour, does underground abortions and rents a room to a familiar prostitute. She doesn't pay any attention to her husband, who returned from the war because of his injury and lives her own life. Abortions gradually begin to bring a good income, and boredom can be easily dispelled by starting a young lover.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1988-09-14
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Des gens si bien élevés
Overview: A teenage girl's running away from home causes a lot of soul-searching in a family dominated by an authoritarian grandmother.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1997-11-17
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La Grande Ourse
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2023-08-26
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Daaaaaalí!
Overview: A young French journalist repeatedly meets iconic surrealist artist Salvador Dalí for a documentary project that never came to be.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2024-02-07
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The Small Victories
Overview: Between her roles as mayor and teacher in the small village of Kerguen, Alice's days are very full. When an unexpected new student, 60-year-old Emile, finally decides to learn to read and write, her daily life threatens to become unmanageable. Especially since Alice will also have to save her village and her school...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2023-03-01
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Silence of the Sea
Overview: In a small town in the West of France, during the German Occupation, a room is requisitioned by a Wehrmacht captain, Werner von Ebrennac. The house where he now stays is inhabited by young Jeanne, who makes a living by giving piano lessons, and by her grandfather. Quite upset, the two "hosts" decide to resist the occupier by never speaking a word to him. Now Werner is a lover of France and its culture, and he tries to persuade them that a rapprochement between Germany and France would be beneficial for the two nations. Quite unexpectedly Jeanne, little by little, falls in love with Werner. At the same time, the Francophile officer loses his illusions, realizing at last that what Nazi Germany actually wants is to thrall France and to stifle its culture...
Genres: Romance Drama War TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2004-09-18
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Smoking Causes Coughing
Overview: After a devastating battle against a diabolical turtle, a team of five avengers — known as the "Tobacco Force" — is sent on a mandatory retreat to strengthen their decaying group cohesion. Their sojourn goes wonderfully well until Lézardin, Emperor of Evil, decides to annihilate planet Earth.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2022-11-30
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Les filles du régiment
Overview: A colonel aims to make her regiment compete with that of the men, which is not to the taste of the general, who also turns out to be her lover.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1978-12-20
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Couples et amants
Overview: Seemingly, Paul (Jacques Bonaffee) and Isabelle (Marie Brunel) have a wonderful, harmonious marriage. Yet Isabelle is not averse to having a little side action with another man in the afternoon, and Paul is really getting into his romance with one of his ophthalmic patients, a young woman who pursues him more than he pursued her. Even those little affairs might not indicate that there is much wrong with the marriage, but when Paul find's out about Isabelle's little affair, he behaves like a thug rather than the sensitive, easygoing man he has appeared to be. By contrast, the constant bickering of a couple they both know seems to indicate real intimacy between them, despite the fact that they are on the verge of divorce.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1993-09-14
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L'attaque des déchets
Overview: Roxanne and Philippe are so obsessed with their relationship that they often forget about the world around them. In the midst of an argument, they decide to separate when a strange phenomenon occurs: garbage from all over the world comes to life and attacks people. Arnold, their lifelong friend, is convinced that it's all their fault. They must reconcile and everything will return to normal. Roxanne and Philippe will try anything to resolve their quarrels, save their relationship and save the world. Easier said than done, when a soda can becomes a relentless killer.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie Fantasy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2022-11-22
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La fête des mères
Overview: A young woman invites her mum to spend Mother’s Day week-end at a luxurious spa to tell her that she loves another woman.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1998-01-01
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Meudon rire de tout - 2ème édition
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2023-11-17
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Accidental Family
Overview: Loïc Le Tallec never really took care of his son. When the latter disappears in a road accident, Loïc is devastated. He has only one idea in mind: to find the one who lives now with the heart of his son. He falls on Hugo, a young man that this brand new heart makes totally unreasonable and uncontrollable. Their meeting promises to be explosive.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2017-04-12
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Links of Life
Overview: Marion is a charismatic fifty-year-old French woman who was born with an attention disorder. Rob is a desperate and mysterious thirty-year-old American man. In the wilderness of Canyonlands, Utah, they meet.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-04-10
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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
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The Odd Girl
Overview: Following a long prison term, 30 year-old Céline must find a place in society. Hiding her past, she introduces herself with a new identity to get work for a trial period in a hotel. Céline finds herself endlessly walking a tightrope between truth and fiction. When she meets Idir, despite the threat of being unmasked, Céline falls in love and finds herself a prisoner to her own lies. But how can one live without taking risks?
Genres: Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2017-01-25
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Une soirée perdue
Overview: "Nancy, Hotel de Guise, 25 November 1983"
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1985-01-01
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Deerskin
Overview: A man's obsession with owning the designer deerskin jacket of his dreams leads him to turn his back on his humdrum life in the suburbs, blow his life savings, and even turn him to crime.
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2019-06-19
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A Change of Heart
Overview: Jean-Pierre is a brilliant surgeon. The problems of his nearest and dearest don't interest him. But when he discovers that he too has a serious heart disease which needs operating on, Jean-Pierre finds out what it is to be a patient.
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2015-04-15
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Méfions-nous des honnêtes gens !
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Genres: TV Movie Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2014-10-01
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Someone, Somewhere
Overview: Rémy and Mélanie live next door to each other in Paris but have never met. The two thirty-year-old Parisians search for connections online, but never have much success. Falling deeper into loneliness and depression, both decide to start attending regular therapy. With the help of their therapists, they uncover the real roots of their issues, and find that the connection they were both searching for is much closer than they thought.
Genres: Drama Romance Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2019-09-11
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Les Mystères des majorettes
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Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2020-01-12
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Murder in Le Havre
Overview: A mummified corpse has been found by workers who were knocking down a wall. Ariane Sallès and Gaspard Lesage are in charge of the investigation.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2018-09-14
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3 Friends
Overview: Three childhood friends support each other through life's ups and downs in this comedy/drama. Each goes through a difficult time in their life, and is "helped" by the others - always well-intentioned, but not always with the intended results! Baptiste's (Kad Merad) wife leaves him and he becomes depressed then obsessive-compulsive. César (Pascal Elbé) has a secret affair with his boss's daughter - he's nervous about seeing her in case dad finds out, but if he stops seeing her she threatens to tell all anyway - either way his job is on the line. Claire (Mathilde Seigner), adopted as a baby, struggles to decide whether to try and find her birth-mother.The links between the three play a crucial part in each of their lives - a deep and supportive bond, but one which risks preventing them ever forming a relationship with someone else.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2007-08-22
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Fever
Overview: Two Parisian high school students murder a woman they chose as a victim from a chance encounter.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2015-08-28
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Harbor
Overview: A tense night of raised pulses on a ferry to England: Adèle, an English teacher, is hiding a 15 year old migrant among her students on board.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2018-11-08
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Bad Spelling
Overview: At a French boarding school for troubled youth in the early 1970's, the Headmaster and his wife decide that their son Daniel, who is fifteen years old but looks younger, should finally go live in the dorm with all the other students, as they do not want it to seem Daniel is receiving any special treatment. Daniel is now faced with the challenge of earning the trust and respect of the other students, who all come from troubled backgrounds.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2004-11-03
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Owning it
Overview: Sanou, a bright 15-year-old, enrolls in the famous Henri IV school in Paris. In this prestigious institution, the young girl from the Saint-Denis outer suburbs finds herself dropped into a world a million miles from everything she knows.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2021-06-04
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Le Choix de Macha
Overview: An emancipated young woman has a string of one-night stands, out of fear of commitment. Until the day she meets Eduardo... She confides her feelings to her grandmother in the greatest secrecy, but, by mistake, the latter reveals the love relationship that her granddaughter has with her new lover. The situation suddenly becomes complicated.
Genres: Drama Family Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2004-01-21
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Crédit bonheur
Overview: Settled in Brittany with their four children in an old semi-decayed house, a couple of slightly idealistic Parisians is sucked into a spiral of credits.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1996-09-18
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The Third War
Overview: After completing his military training, young Léo, a taciturn soldier with family problems and secret addictions, is assigned to one of the units that patrol the streets of Paris in search of possible terrorist threats as part of Operation Sentinelle.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2021-09-16
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The French Revolution: Years of Hope
Overview: First part that includes the beginnings of the French Revolution. The film begins by recounting the events that led to the convocation of the States General in 1789 and ends with the assault on the Tuileries Palace, which occurred on August 10, 1792.
Genres: History Drama War Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1989-05-10
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