Ivan Franěk
Also Known As: Ivan Franeck, Ivan Franěk, Ivan Franek
Biography: Ivan Franěk (born June 17, 1964) is a Czech actor. After relocating from former Czechoslovakia to France in 1989, he has been active mainly in French and – particularly – Italian film & TV industry. His breakthrough role was lead Tobias Horvath in the Italian romance drama Brucio nel vento (2002), directed by Silvio Soldini and based on the novel Hier by Ágota Kristóf.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Plzeň, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]
Adult: No
Birthday: June 17, 1964
Age: 60 years old
Gender: Male
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Unknown Hour
Overview: Hynek Michánek wants to study medicine but fails his entrance exams five times. He starts a job as an orderly in a district hospital where one of the doctors on the examining board works as well. He feels no-one takes him seriously and he loathes the doctors, who treat him with disdain. When an old man begs him to end his pain and suffering by helping him to die, Hynek gives him a "liberating" injection. But now he has done it once, he finds he can't stop. He continues killing other patients, even though he knows he can't get away with it for long.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 2009-08-27
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Brucio nel vento
Overview: For ten years, immigrant Tobias has worked at a Swiss clock factory and, in the relentless ticking, he saw life go by without much expectation. One day, he sees Caroline, a former schoolmate from back in Eastern Europe, and falls in love with her, but she's married and has a daughter.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2002-01-18
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36th Precinct
Overview: In Paris, two cops are competing for the vacant job of chief of police, in the middle of the search for a gang of violent thieves. The movie is directed by Olivier Marchal, a former police officer who spent 12 years with the French police before creating this story, taken in part from real events of the 1980s.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2004-11-24
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L'Entente cordiale
Overview: The upper-class secret agent teaming up accidentally with an easily-corrupted, sly interpreter...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2006-06-21
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La banda dei tre
Overview: Take an irascible dwarf whose surname is Piccolo, with an easy trigger and an immoderate passion for Pupo and his songs. Then add an undercover policeman whose surname is Doll who doesn't even dare to declare himself to the woman he is in love with and plays tough disguised as a pseudo-criminal. Then you end up with Silvano, a former drug addict in perennial religious mystical crisis, who steals from apartments to survive, only to leave holy cards to be forgiven for the pain caused.
Genres: Comedy Crime Action
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2020-02-12
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Night Bus
Overview: Valerio Mastandrea is Franz, a night bus driver on the airport route who owes a lot of money from poker debts. He's stumbled upon by the variously named Leila, a thief who has accidentally become wrapped up in a secretive blackmail deal involving the President. As the film unfolds, a secret war between factions of the Security Services, a series of confusions among the various criminal fraternities whose activites have been touched upon by the deal, and Leila's past all complicate the situation.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2007-05-11
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Anything for Her
Overview: Lisa and Julien are married and lead a happy uneventful life with their son Oscar. But their life radically changes one morning, when the police comes to arrest Lisa on murder charges. She's sentenced to 20 years of prison. Convinced of his wife's innocence, Julien decides to act. How far will he be willing to go for her?
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2008-12-03
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One Life, Maybe Two
Overview: You're 20 years old and life is full of endless possibilities. But, on a rainy evening, you bumps into another car and life hasn't been the same anymore. Even though you have everything something keeps on eating you up.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2010-05-07
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Provincia meccanica
Overview: A mentally unstable woman loses her daughter's custody to her mother. Things get even more complicated when her husband has a car accident and befriends a Czech mechanic, bringing the man into their dysfunctional home.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2005-01-01
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Little Girl Blue
Overview: Julie is a woman who seemingly has everything. A handsome husband, teenage daughter and a thriving, undemanding job as a translator and now even a new dream house ... But she also has a secret that is slowly changing her idyllic life...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 2007-05-17
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Smolu nosíš ty, láska
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Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: sk
Release Date: 2023-06-15
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Two Words as the Key
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 2023-07-27
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Caged
Overview: Somewhere in Eastern Europe. Carole is a young nurse with a humanitarian aid group that has reached the end of its mission. But just then, the young woman and her two colleagues are kidnapped by strangers for mysterious reasons. Held captive, cared for and kept alive in an oppressive and sinister setting, the three prisoners soon discover with horror what their kidnappers truly have in store for them.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2010-10-06
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Fuori dal coro
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2015-06-04
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Il prossimo tuo
Overview: Rome, Paris and Helsinki right after the Madrid bombings. Three stories about people who, for different reasons, are afraid of others – the eponymous "thy neighbor." A humanity full of differences, but at the same time, with very similar feelings. So similar that their stories appear almost parallel and complementary.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2009-06-19
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Darkness
Overview: A man leaves his busy city life for the peace of the country home where he spent his early childhood. His new life is soon disturbed by strange events.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 2009-07-07
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Islands
Overview: Ivan is an undocumented immigrant from Eastern Europe who is in Italy looking for work to support himself and his father, who has a gambling addiction. When Ivan hears of work on a nearby island, he makes the trip only to be cheated and beaten by unscrupulous thugs. When all seems bleak, Ivan is befriended by Martina, an eccentric woman who never speaks and lives with Father Enzo, a compassionate priest who takes in misfits and transients. Despite his warm heart, Enzo has a harsh personality which has only gotten worse since he's been bedridden by a stroke. Enzo's sister helps look after him, but he's certain she only wants to gain control of land he owns but uses only to keep bees, which are cared for by Martina. As Ivan becomes part of the priest's household, he helps make Enzo's life more harmonious and bonds with the normally shy Martina, but not everyone in the community takes so kindly to the stranger who is clearly not Italian.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2011-05-10
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Il silenzio dell'allodola
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2005-06-10
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L'amore non basta
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2008-04-18
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Four of Us
Overview: James prepares for his eighth grade oral exams while his family is going through different times.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2014-03-20
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Ritual - A Psychomagic Story
Overview: The fragile Lia suffers from a deep depression. Her relationship with her boyfriend Viktor is getting worse and worse and in the last desperate attempt to cure herself, Lia goes to visit her old aunt Agata in her creepy 18th century villa.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2013-04-20
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Cuore di donna
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2002-10-31
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Occamova břitva
Overview: A married couple unexpectedly find themselves witness to a murder. The perpetrators pay them to remain silent, but also turn them into the main suspects of the crime. The more the two try to distance themselves from the case, the more entangled they become, and so does their relationship
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 2013-01-12
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Chaos
Overview: A bourgeois couple, modern yet conventional. One night by accident, a young prostitute barges into their lives. Hounded down, beaten up, threatened, she will continue to struggle, with the help of a well off lady, first for her survival-her resurrection-then for her dignity and freedom. Stormy encounters for everyone involved.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2001-10-03
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OSS 117: From Africa with Love
Overview: 1981. Hubert Bonisseur de la Bath, aka OSS 117, is back. For this new mission – more delicate, more dangerous and more torrid than ever – he is forced to team up with a young new colleague, the promising OSS 1001.
Genres: Comedy Adventure Action
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2021-08-04
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Deux femmes à Paris
Overview: In Paris in 1935, a young Jewish woman married to an anti-fascist activist befriends her neighbor who is dating a far-right supporter.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2000-11-27
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Lost Seamen
Overview: Based on a novel by Jean-Claude Izzo, this melancholic movie focuses on three sailors being the last remaining crew members on their ship which is aground in the harbor of Marseille. After the owner has sold the "Aldébaran", only the Lebanese captain Aziz, the Greek Diamantis and the Turk Nelim are stuck on the boat for a lack of prospects. Aziz doesn't want to return to his wife, Diamantis tries to find a girl he left at the age of 20 and Nelim, young and foolish, just wants to have fun...
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2003-11-12
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Blood of My Blood
Overview: In the Middle Ages, Federico, a soldier, visits the convent in Bobbio, where Sister Benedetta is facing charges of witchery for seducing Fabrizio, Federico’s twin brother, and making him betray his priestly mission. Federico hopes to secure his brother a burial on consecrated grounds. In modern times, Federico Mai, a Minister inspector, knocks on the doors of the very same convent, in order to broker a sale of the property to a Russian millionaire. Unbeknownst to him, a mysterious "Count" lives there.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2015-09-09
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Chlorine
Overview: Seventeen-year-old Jenny dreams of becoming a synchronized swimmer. Family events turn her life upside down and she is forced move to a remote area to look after her ill father and younger brother. It won't be long before Jenny starts pursuing her dreams again.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2015-01-24
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The Three Musketeers: D'Artagnan
Overview: D'Artagnan, a spirited young Gascon, is left for dead after trying to save a noblewoman from being kidnapped. Once in Paris, he tries by all means to find his attackers, unaware that his quest will lead him to the very heart of a war where the future of France is at stake. Aided by King's Musketeers Athos, Porthos and Aramis, he faces the machinations of villainous Cardinal Richelieu and Milady de Winter, while falling in love with Constance, the Queen's confidante.
Genres: Adventure Action Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2023-04-05
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Animali randagi
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2024-03-22
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Bolgia totale
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Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2014-10-09
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Muddy Shoes
Overview: An elderly Jewish woman, who was a teenager during the outset of the Holocaust and was forced to choose between her own life and her younger brother's, still lives with the guilt until she finally shares her nightmare experience with her own adult daughter.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: cs
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Tulpa - Demon of Desire
Overview: Lisa Boeri is at the top of her corporate career. At night she frequents the notorious Club Tulpa, owned by a mysterious Tibetan guru. Unshackled from repression and guilt, Lisa will do anything with any stranger to attain a higher consciousness. However, when her lovers start getting murdered in shocking ways, Lisa can’t go to the police because the scandal would impact her day job. Foolishly she tries to unmask the assassin herself, with truly nightmarish consequences.
Genres: Thriller Horror
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2012-08-25
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Ears
Overview: A man wakes up one morning with an annoying ringing sound in his ears. A note on the fridge says: "Your friend Luigi has died. P.S. I took the car". The problem is that he does not even remember who this guy Luigi is. This is just the beginning of a tragicomic day during which he will be plunged into the folly of the world. One of those days that changes your life forever.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2016-09-01
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Vodka Lemon
Overview: In a remote, isolated Yazidi Kurdish village in post-Soviet Armenia, Hamo, a widower with a pitiful pension and three worthless sons, travels daily to his wife's grave. There he meets the lovely Nina, who is communing with her late husband. The two are penniless--she works in a local bar that is about to close down, while he has been forced to start selling his meager possessions. All seems hopelessly bleak, yet when Hamo begins to court Nina, their unexpected love revitalizes them.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: hy
Release Date: 2003-11-21
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La Leggenda di Bob Wind
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Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2016-11-10
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The Furlough
Overview: The story of four inmates during their 48 hours furlough, of their reality and how it has brought them behind bars. The characters are described with realism, with their contradictions, their desperation, the temptation of an escape, but the cornerstone of the movie is the sincerity of the positive feelings of each and everyone of them: the love of a father for his son, the love for a woman, for friends, and most of all the pursuit of a lost (if ever had) personal dignity and pride. Four characters of different ages and extractions, three man and a woman: Luigi, Donato, Rossana and Angelo.
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller Action
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2017-03-30
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L'Histoire d'une mère
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2017-02-15
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Upon My Skin
Overview: On My Skin (Italian: Sulla mia pelle, also known as Upon My Skin) is a 2003 Italian crime-drama film written and directed by Valerio Jalongo. It was screened in competition at the 2003 Turin Film Festival.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-11-02
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The Young Karl Marx
Overview: 26 year-old Karl Marx embarks with his wife, Jenny, on the road to exile. In 1844 in Paris, he meets Friedrich Engels, an industrialist’s son, who has been investigating the sordid birth of the British working class. Engels, the dandy, provides the last piece of the puzzle to the young Karl Marx’s new vision of the world. Together, between censorship and the police’s repression, riots and political upheavals, they will lead the labor movement during its development into a modern era.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2017-03-02
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We Believed
Overview: 1828. In the wake of the repression of revolutionary uprisings in the monarchist South, three young friends join Giuseppe Mazzini's patriotic cause, seeking to finally unify Italy under a republican government. Their idealism will clash with the inevitable disillusionment as they grow apart over the following fifty years.
Genres: History Drama Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2010-11-12
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Agadah
Overview: A hieratic Count sits in his elegant mansion finishing his writings - Alphonse, a young Waloon officer, rides through the Murgia to reach his regiment in Naples but soon finds himself mysteriously detained at a inn in the strange and varied company of thieves, brigands, cabalists, noblemen, coquettes and gypsies, whose stories he records over ten days. A range of situations in stories-within-stories, which, like the Decameron and Tales from the Thousand and One Nights, provide entertainment on an epic scale. The two men's destiny intertwined, it is difficult to know who's real between the two and who belongs to the other's mind. This is a journey for both of them which Alphonse will continue, uncertain in the end, if his experiences were real or a dream.
Genres: Drama Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2017-11-16
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Look Up
Overview: During a break on a rooftop, Teco, a young baker, notices the intriguing fall of a strange bird. He decides to venture to the next roof to have a closer look. This is only the beginning of a most unbelievable journey on the labyrinthine rooftops of Roma.
Genres: Fantasy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2018-10-18
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The Invisible Boy: Second Generation
Overview: Three years later Michele (The Invisible boy) meets his mother and his twin sister. Both have stories and superpowers but their intentions may not be what Michele thinks.
Genres: Fantasy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2018-01-04
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In carne e ossa
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2010-11-05
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The Hole
Overview: Ambulance-chasing lawyers takes on the case of a convicted murderer who, just being released after doing 27 years in jail, claims he was innocent.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2014-09-25
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The Great Beauty
Overview: Jep Gambardella has seduced his way through the lavish nightlife of Rome for decades, but after his 65th birthday and a shock from the past, Jep looks past the nightclubs and parties to find a timeless landscape of absurd, exquisite beauty.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2013-05-21
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Smiles of Sad Men
Overview: A writer gets into a rehab where he meets a lot of successful men who destroyed their lives with alcohol.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 2018-07-12
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Codice Aurora
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Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2008-10-10
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Miserere
Overview: Paris, December. A conductor of a choir is found mysteriously murdered, with burst eardrums. Lionel Kasdan, a police inspertor the verge of retirement, and Frank Salek, an official of Interpol, embark together on a hunt for the killer, and also to a secret organization specializing in kidnapping children.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2013-06-26
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Anna
Overview: Beneath Anna Poliatova's striking beauty lies a secret that will unleash her indelible strength and skill to become one of the world's most feared government assassins.
Genres: Action Adventure Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-06-19
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White Flowers
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2020-06-02
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Mstitel
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 2021-07-01
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Army of Crime
Overview: This gripping historical drama recounts the story of Armenian-born Missak Manouchian, a woodworker and political activist who led an immigrant laborer division of the Parisian Resistance on 30 operations against the Nazis in 1943. The Nazis branded the group an Army of Crime, an anti-immigrant propaganda stunt that backfired as the team's members became martyrs for the Resistance.
Genres: War Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2009-09-16
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A New Perspective
Overview: Early one morning, in an unspecified and seemingly far off time, a 12 year old boy, together with some friends, is searching a thick forest for objects of value. There is a lot of fog. The boy goes off by himself to another part of the wood and stands admiring an antique object he has found at the foot of a tree. His happy expression turns to one of curiosity as he is distracted by some high pitched cries which come and go intermittently.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2020-11-26
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The War in Paris
Overview: In Paris, in 1943, Jules, a 19-year-old Jew, lived without an ideal, tossed about by circumstances. He becomes in turn a traitor then a hero. Thomas, his fifteen-year-old brother, wants to act and fight in resistance.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2002-05-22
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Chiara e Francesco
Overview: Italy, XIII century. The story of friendship between two young people who dedicated their lives to God and others: St. Francis and St. Clare of Assisi. Children of the bourgeoisie and the nobility, respectively, gave up their lives accommodated by a life of sacrifice, humility and proselytizing ...
Genres: History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2007-01-01
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L'ultima sfida
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2025-04-03
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Waiting For Patrick
Overview: Helenka, a textile industrial student, invents an ideal man who is the envy of all her friends. The dreamy and delusional Helenka resists her complexes with an imaginary lover, her more realistic friend Zuzka would also prefer the dreamy Patrik, but in the end she will probably be happy with the less ideal Honza, and the self-confident vulgar nymphomaniac Sylva flies from one lover to another like a butterfly, finally as she was the only one waiting for her dream Patrick.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1990-01-01
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Kde končí láska
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 2025-05-01
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