Vania Vilers
Also Known As: Vania Villers, Jean-Frédéric Winterhalter
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Neuchâtel, Switzerland
Adult: No
Birthday: June 12, 1938
Age: 86 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: February 22, 2009
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We Won't Go to the Woods Anymore
Overview: In the spring of 1944, in the Woëvre forest of Lorraine, a group of young maquisards takes in four German deserters. led by Saint-Brice is based in the Woevre forest. Lise, a nineteen-year-old girl, is their liaison officer. One evening, four German soldiers turn up as deserters. After a period of doubt, the maquisards agree to integrate them into their group. Lise falls in love with one of the newcomers, Werner, and becomes his mistress. One day, she leaves on a mission with Lucien, and comes across an enemy patrol. The SS shoot Lucien and free Lise. In the camp, people begin to think that the maquis has been betrayed.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1969-05-15
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13 Tzameti
Overview: Sebastian, a young man, has decided to follow instructions intended for someone else, without knowing where they will take him. Something else he does not know is that Gerard Dorez, a cop on a knife-edge, is tailing him. When he reaches his destination, Sebastian falls into a degenerate, clandestine world of mental chaos behind closed doors in which men gamble on the lives of others men.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2005-09-01
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The Eagle and the Dove
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1977-05-04
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We Will All Meet in Paradise
Overview: Having fortuitously discovered a photograph in which Marthe embraces someone unknown, Étienne Dorsay becomes jealous and imagines various stratagems to identify the lover. In the meantime, he and his friends acquire a weekend house for a very low price.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1977-11-09
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OSS 117 tue le taon
Overview: An American traveling in Europe suddenly disappears, and his daughter, married to an eminent scientist, receives a letter asking her to go to Antwerp, which she does with her young son. Both are about to disappear. OSS 117 is asked by his superiors to solve these mysterious disappearances.
Genres: Crime Action Drama TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1971-11-13
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HPW ou Anatomie d'un faussaire
Overview: Hugo-Paul de Weydroos, forger who manages to mystify the most renowned experts, is an attractive man, not without talent but paranoid and megalomaniac. He lived a childhood in the Paris of the 1920s, upset by his love of drawing and painting thwarted by an abusive mother. Delivered to his own fantasies, the hero indulges in the most disordered introspection and will end up consuming himself to become the reincarnation of the one he is trying to copy: Hans Pauli Weyergans, painter of the 18th century.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1971-07-27
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Boulevard des assassins
Overview: After a messy divorce, a struggling writer takes a holiday on the French Riviera, where he decides to investigate a series of mysterious incidents.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1982-03-29
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The Roads of Exile
Overview: French philosopher Jean Jacques Rousseau (François Simon) lives in 18th-century exile with his mistress (Dominique Labourier).
Genres: History Drama TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1978-01-01
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The Seventh Target
Overview: Bastien Grimaldy, a man driven to heightened anxiety as the plot against him begins to take effect. Bastien's personal relationships give him enough cause for anxiety -- between his new lover Laura and a feisty mother, life provides its own insecurities. When he goes to the police with his problems, Bastien is assigned an off-beat inspector to protect him but is still faced with skepticism about his dilemma.
Genres: Thriller Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1984-12-19
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Mimì Bluette... Flower of My Garden
Overview: Mimi Bluette, daughter of a prostitute, lives in Paris where she is idolized by men of all kinds and class, is about to settle with a rich man when, in a bar, she meets a stranger.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-09-10
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Replay
Overview: When François' wife Cecile was leaving him because of his affairs with other women, she had an auto accident. In this drama, he makes uses of her amnesia to try to win her back and misleads her at every turn in her quest to recover her memories.
Genres: Drama Romance Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1977-08-10
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Pierre and Paul
Overview: Pierre is a middle-aged factory worker with plenty of unresolved anger. After his father's death, his mother feels compelled to move in with him. Having just moved there with his beautiful girlfriend, he begins to feel the pressure. When the May Day revolt begins, he goes crazy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1969-05-07
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The Orinoco Dam
Overview: After the accidental death of her husband, Dominique Vallorie agrees to take over the construction of an important dam on the Orinoco River. She does not know that by accepting to go to Venezuela, her life as a woman and engineer will change. Through a great love story she will assert herself despite all the pitfalls on the way.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1996-09-14
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Irene, Irene
Overview: The 60-year-old Guido is in a life crisis after his wife left him. His search for her develops more and more into his search for himself and the confrontation with the question of the meaning of life ...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1975-06-02
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He Loves Me… He Loves Me Not
Overview: A talented art student named Angélique is passionately in love with Dr. Loïc Le Garrec, a handsome married man whom she believes will leave his wife. When he eventually decides to stay in his marriage, it causes Angélique to spiral. However, as the story shifts from Angélique's perspective to Loïc's, the surprising truth about their relationship is revealed.
Genres: Drama Romance Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2002-03-27
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Truly Madly Deeply
Overview: Nina is totally heartbroken at the death of her boyfriend Jamie, but is even more unprepared for his return as a ghost. At first it's almost as good as it used to be – hey, even the rats that infested her house have disappeared. But Jamie starts bringing ghostly friends home and behaving more and more oddly.
Genres: Fantasy Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-05-03
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Lust and Desire
Overview: A couple is suffering from sexual estrangement. The husband is having an affair with his secretary and the wife takes up with Sandra an interior decorator.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1973-07-06
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Caravan to Vaccarès
Overview: American Neil Bowman is traveling through France when he meets British photographer Lila. They are hired by French land owner Duc de Croyter to escort a Hungarian scientist to New York. But they soon realize that the job is not a cushy number, and have to deal with a gang of kidnappers who will stop at nothing to get their hands on the scientist
Genres: Thriller Action Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-08-08
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The Vintner's Luck
Overview: A fantasy romance set in 19th century France. The film revolves around Sobran, a young peasant winemaker, and the three important figures in his life - his beautiful wife Celeste, baroness Aurora de Valday and an angel named Xas.
Genres: Fantasy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-09-01
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Die Nacht mit Chandler
Overview: German film.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1979-10-24
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Photo-souvenir
Overview: This film in the popular French television series Cinéma 16 stars Jean-Claude Carrière as a surgeon who becomes obsessed with decrypting a series of mysterious Polaroid snapshots
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1978-12-31
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Strange Game
Overview: In 1944, in Paris, the leader of a resistance network is looking for the traitor who gave away a radio operator.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1968-04-05
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The Lost Way
Overview: While the Easter holidays are over, a young woman named Cécile and her brother Pierre return to the family home. There they meet their grandfather Léon, an old communist militant who has shaken Lenin's hand.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1980-01-09
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Parti sans laisser d'adresse
Overview: A young Swiss drug addict has been imprisoned for robbery, and must wait and wait for his upcoming trial, all the while isolated and without hope of parole - the police are convinced he is a dealer and not just a user. He hears from his son that his girlfriend has a new man, and begins to despair of ever coming to trial, or of having another relationship like the one he lost. This fiction film is said to be based on a true story.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1982-05-19
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The Eagle and the Horse
Overview: French Canadian TV-Movie
Genres: Adventure Western TV Movie Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1994-11-14
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L'Afrique c'est loin
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Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie Thriller Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1982-05-21
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Alissa
Overview: The son of an editor discovers that one of his father's writers is a former criminal from the Eastern bloc.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1998-07-29
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Sous le soleil de Satan
Overview: 1971 TV movie based on the novel by Georges Bernanos.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1971-04-22
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Henry Dunant: Red on the Cross
Overview: Henry Dunant, son of a Geneva francophone upper class bourgeoisie family, works for a Swiss exploitation company in French Algeria; when the colonists are thirsty, he returns determined to convince the firm and emperor Napoleon III to build a dam for them. After his Uncle, Dr. Hubert Dunant, diagnoses him not with Algerian typhus, just malaria, also his first meeting -dropping drawers in hospital for a shot- with nurse Cécile Thuillier, and meeting his careerist brother Daniel's fiancée, Léonie Bourg-Thibourg, daughter of the firm's boss, the board approves his plan. On his way to the emperor, who didn't even concede to receive him, Henry gets stuck in Castiglione, part of the Austrian province Lombardy which French troops came to 'liberate'; his Geneva friend Dr. Louis Appia saves his life by presenting him to suspicious Austrian troops as his medical assistant...
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2007-02-03
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