Liliane Rovère
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Biography: Liliane Rovère (born 30 January 1933) is a French actress. In 1955, she went to the United States where she met Chet Baker. They lived together for two years. She was married to Bibi Rovère. In 1971, they adopted a girl that they named Tina. She works as a make-up artist in cinema and television. In 2022, she supports the candidacy of Jean-Luc Mélenchon for the French presidential election. Source: Article "Liliane Rovère" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Paris, France
Birthday: January 30, 1933
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Gender: Female
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You Are So Beautiful
Overview: Aymé Pigrenet, a recently widowed farmer, is eager to find a new wife to help him run his farm. Desperate, he seeks the aid of a local matchmaker who suggest that he go to Romania to find a new wife. There he meets Elena.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2005-11-07
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I Love You, I Don't
Overview: The petite waitress Johnny works and lives in a truck-stop, where she's lonely and longs for love. She develops a crush on the garbage truck driver Krassky, although her sleazy boss Boris warns her that he's gay.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1976-03-10
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Get Out Your Handkerchiefs
Overview: Solange is seriously depressed, and her kindhearted husband, Raoul, makes it his mission to cure her doldrums. After many failed attempts to cheer her up, Raoul hits upon a possible solution: find his wife a lover. Unfortunately, his choice, Stéphane, proves to be just as ineffectual in restoring her flagging spirits. In the end, the gorgeous Solange finds her own, highly problematic tonic to her troubles in the form of a 13-year-old boy.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1978-01-11
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Demain et tous les jours après
Overview: In Africa, two occidentals, a man and a woman, with totaly different minds, are obliged to make a long trip together in a cab.
Genres: Adventure TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2002-03-21
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Oldies But Goodies
Overview: As the Lino Vartan shelter, which takes orphans and seniors in, has to shut down for health issues, Milann has no choice but to accept the invitation of a retirement home in the south of France.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2024-02-14
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The Grocer's Son
Overview: Antoine Sforza, a thirty-year-old young man, left his village ten years before in order to start a new life in the big city, but now that his father, a traveling grocer, is in hospital after a stroke, he more or less reluctantly accepts to come back to replace him in his daily rounds.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2007-06-15
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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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Round Midnight
Overview: Inside the Blue Note nightclub one night in 1959 Paris, an aged, ailing jazzman coaxes an eloquent wail from his tenor sax. Outside, a young Parisian too broke to buy a glass of wine strains to hear those notes. Soon they will form a friendship that sparks a final burst of genius.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-09-23
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Femmes Fatales
Overview: Two men, fortyish, worn out by their wives, abandon everything to go and live in the back of beyond. There they meet a truculent priest, a boozer, Émile who recalls them to life's simple pleasures. Calm is what they want. But soon their example inspires thousands of disorientated males...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1976-02-11
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Buffet Froid
Overview: An absurd black comedy that cunningly reverses the conventions of the crime thriller to comment on the alienating and dehumanizing effects of contemporary urban life. Alphonse Tram is unwittingly involved in several murders despite having no memory of committing the crimes. His confusion lead him to confess to his neighbour, Inspector Morvandieu. Alphonse and Morvandieu become the axis around which murders occur.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1979-12-19
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The Captive
Overview: Ariane and Simon met down by the water. Simon has managed to prize Ariane away from her friends, a bunch of free and arrogant girls, and move her into his place, with her own room at the end of the hall and her own bathroom next to his. He has taken on Andrée, one of the girls from the bunch by the water, to watch over Ariane, escort her wherever she goes and report back to him on everything she does. Andrée becomes Ariane’s accomplice. She’ll tell lies for her, and with her, and most likely they’ll make love together when the mood takes them.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2000-09-27
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With a Friend Like Harry...
Overview: Harry knew Michel in high school; they meet again by accident, Harry inserts himself in Michel's life... and things take a sinister turn.
Genres: Drama Comedy Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2000-08-15
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Ugly Melanie
Overview: This is the story of too nice girl who one day decides to become evil. And who will find out it is not so easy to do wrong when you have always been nice.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2008-11-12
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Les particules élémentaires
Overview: 2009. Michel Djerzinski, a genius researcher specialized in molecular biology, mysteriously disappears in Ireland. His latest discoveries would have opened the way to a major upheaval in the history of human genetics. This is the occasion for a dizzying plunge in time where we discover his half-brother Bruno, a tortured joker who will meet love in a post-sixties campsite, Janine, Bruno's and Michel's mother, a former hippie who has always refused to raise her children in a conventional way, and Annabelle, with whom Michel will fall in love as a child.
Genres: TV Movie Romance Drama Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2022-01-31
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J'invente rien
Overview: Paul has no specific life goal, and Mathilde, who provides for their household, despairs that he can find one. If he continues like this, she may well drop him. So Paul thinks he's got to invent something.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2006-08-16
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Safe Conduct
Overview: The film is about the French film industry from 1942 to 1944 during the Nazi occupation. The film focuses on assistant director and resistance fighter Jean Devaivre and screenwriter Jean Aurenche. Aurenche is on the move so that he doesn't have to write anything collaborationist. Devaivre is in dangerous political activity. Devaivre also works for the German production company Continental where he is respected. On the other hand, Aurenche's scriptwriting doesn't help how he lives and he is a womanizer which causes him to procrastinate.
Genres: War Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2002-01-09
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Sale race
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Genres: Comedy Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2023-05-11
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True Enough
Overview: Anne is an attractive woman on the cusp of middle age trying in vain to divide her time fairly between her demanding job as a television presenter and her family. Her colleagues and friends have similar problems though.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2007-09-12
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Coup d'éclat
Overview: Fabienne is a police officer. She does her job well but is gradually growing tired of the dehumanized nature of her work : arresting undocumented aliens day after day does not fit in with her ideals. That's why when, one night, Olga, the Kazakh prostitute she apprehends, begs her to free her not to leave her four-year-old son alone, she hesitates... And why, after Olga has run away and is found dead, Fabienne decides to deal with this matter personally...
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2011-04-27
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Re-belles
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2023-05-30
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Seaside
Overview: Seaside takes place in a small coastal town on the Bay of Somme. The year-round inhabitants find ways to make their lives work; Paul, a lifeguard in the summer, works at the grocery all winter. His mother, Rose (Ogier) likes to play the slots just about anytime; his girlfriend Marie works in the local factory - the town's biggest business - but watching the summertime vacationers each year just makes her increasingly curious about what else might be out there. From these and several other stories, aided by close, revealing observations, we see a community perched between transition and stasis.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2002-12-04
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March or Die
Overview: Just after World War I, Major Foster is incorporating new recruits into his French Foreign Legion platoon when he is sent to his former remote outpost located in the French Morocco to protect an archaeological excavation from El Krim, a Rifian leader who intends to unite all local tribes to fight the colonial government…
Genres: Drama Adventure War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-09-08
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Black Mic Mac 2
Overview: In the African district of Paris, a man tries by all means to find his jacket, accidentally lost, which contains a winning lotto ticket.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1988-11-08
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Bandit rouge
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
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La mécanique des tournesols
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Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2023-10-25
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Eleanor's Secret
Overview: Natanaël, seven, still doesn't know how to read. His eccentric old aunt bequeaths her house to his parents and her book collection to the young boy. Nat discovers that the books serve as a shelter for all the heroes found in children's literature. They are the original characters and are counting on him for protection. For if they leave the library, they will disappear along with their stories forever! When his parents start selling off the books, Nathanaël, who is shrunk by the evil witch Carabosse, braves everything to save his tiny friends
Genres: Animation Family
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2009-12-16
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La storia di Cino
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2014-12-17
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Alex
Overview: Alex is a liberated, apparently sturdy yet vulnerable woman in her thirties. She earns her living as a market trader and with building work - she has no trouble matching up to the men. She works on renovating an old dilapidated house, high up and lonely in the mountains of the Ardèche, in the hope that her teenage son Xavier, who was not brought up by her, will move in. The walls she is restoring are like her life, which she wants to build up bit by bit. Because it's clear that she has just lived through some difficult years - in her own defensive words, she says to her son: 'I was unstable.' She is still easily upset and can become angry and aggressive.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2005-09-15
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Les genoux cagneux
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Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1992-12-19
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Almost Fall
Overview: Two septuagenarians return to a small town in the Dordogne. Every step they take brings them closer to the event that changed their lives sixty years earlier.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2022-10-19
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The Gifts
Overview: Presents: most of us look forward to them. Others dread them, or even forget about them. With two days to go before Christmas, the Stain family is full of ideas, but they are far from all good.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2024-12-25
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La fille de son père
Overview: A man decides to pose as his friend and claim to be the father of a child that isn't his.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2001-10-10
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Passionnément
Overview: On the island of Porquerolles, Alice spies on Bernard, a man who has returned to France after living in Brazil for some years. The two had once been lovers, and Alice's obsession with Bernard -- which apparently didn't wane during their time apart -- sets in motion a string of events culminating with the aforementioned car crash. Dysfunction abounds.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2000-05-31
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Ordinary Victories
Overview: Marco, in his thirties, is a little lost and tormented at the thought of truly settling. A former war photographer, he no longer wants to cover conflict and is more interested in the world of longshiremen.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2015-07-15
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The Safe House
Overview: An eccentric family portrait set during the May 1968 protests in Paris. A nine-year-old boy stays with his grandparents and uncles while his parents protest. When an illustrious guest seeks refuge in the apartment, the family’s dynamics change.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2025-03-19
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Veloma
Overview: Philippe, a sailor, finishes a sailing race around the world, solo and nonstop. After this tour of the world, Philippe can no longer resume the rhythm of everyday life with his wife Lucie and son Vincent.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2001-10-01
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Nickel and Dime
Overview: Jacques is coming home after a long stretch behind bars. The boys are waiting, especially hi longtime friend Francis and new kid on the block Didier. They have a job lined up. but Jacques wants out of the life, Francis would rather be on the stage and wannabe mobster Didier has loser written all over him. Looks like someone's heading for a fall.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2003-06-25
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A Saturday on Earth
Overview: A series of seemingly unconnected events and 50 important speaking parts make this film a jigsaw puzzle to be solved by the viewer. Martin and Claire were separated in childhood, and are brought together by a series of coincidences. A tragic car crash is central to the story, but seemingly unimportant events can hold great significance. Through a montage of different film stock and techniques director Diane Bertrand creates pieces of a puzzle, from which the viewer has to piece together a story. That's the premise of the film, and it is solvable. You just have to work a bit...
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1996-08-28
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Juliette in Spring
Overview: Juliette goes back in her hometown to spend some time with her family. She finds herself between a loving but moody father, a New Age mother, a sister in the midst of an existential crisis, and a grandmother slowly losing her mind. Buried memories and family secrets rise to the surface in this sweet, tender and sometimes extravagant family portrait.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2024-06-12
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Waiting for the Moon
Overview: Fictionalized portrait of one of history's great literary couples: Stein & Toklas. Summer 1930s France, Alice tends to ailing Gertrude; they visit Fernande Olivier, Guillaume Apollinaire, others; and Hemingway pops in.
Genres: Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-06-15
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Artemisia
Overview: The story of Artemisia Gentileschi (1593-1653), one of the first well-known female painters, including her youth, when she was guided and protected by her father, the painter Orazio Gentileschi.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1997-09-10
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Blank
Overview: In this sensitive examination of the effects of Alzheimer's a home care assistant, Felicia, is charged with spending her days with Anna, an elderly woman suffering from dementia. When Anna's husband vanishes, Felicia dedicates herself to Anna, and like Anna, slowly loses all sense of time and self.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2010-03-10
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Adultery (A User's Guide)
Overview: This French farce chronicles one special day in the lives of a married pair of Parisian architects, Fabienne and Bruno, as they anxiously await the results of an important architectual contest they have entered. Unable to handle the stress of waiting, both turn to sexual liason's to ease their tension. Bruno ends up enacting a dark sexual fantasy with a stranger while Fabienne eventually succumbs to the advances of Bruno's friend Simon, a fortyish Lebanese businessman and part-time drug dealer. The comedy takes on overtones of psycho-drama when the contest winner announced and the couple discovers the truth of each other's actions. A cache of drugs, discovered in an apartment only adds to their troubles.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1995-05-26
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Dirty Kids
Overview: French seniors enroll in summer camp.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2017-07-19
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Les yeux ouverts
Overview: Anne has been blind since birth, François' been blind from the age of seven. This couple is happy. But their daily routine changes the day François is given an artificial cornea transplant and regains his sight.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2015-12-16
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Andréa
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Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1976-07-13
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Comment passer son permis de conduire
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1980-05-30
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Monsieur Albert
Overview: In this poetic slice-of-life film that reveals the problems and needs of a group of lowlife characters, unwed mother Vivaine (Dominique Labourier) falls in love with working-class youth Francois (Patrick Chesnais) who has a shady past. Albert (Philippe Noiret), a no-good insurance con-artist, poses for many years as Francois' friend, but tragedy ensues when Albert comes between the lovers, and Francois and Albert resort to physical violence to settle their differences.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1976-03-30
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A Tear in the Ocean
Overview: As the Germans marched into Poland, some Poles sought to join the resistance underground to harass or even stop the advance. Some members of the Jewish community joined them. A surprising number, more mystically inclined, did not. This French film takes us to one remote Polish estate, where patriots are arming themselves to fight Germans. Several Jews who sought to join them are admitted by the group's leader, but they are violently dealt with by the other anti-Semitic members of the group.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1973-03-01
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Dirty Dishes
Overview: Diary of a housewife, going mad. Armelle is nearly 30, with a husband and two sons. It's the early 80s in France, unemployment is high, and she's not worked (outside the home) since she was a dancer at age 20.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1978-04-17
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Adopt a Daddy
Overview: Damien is a pawn in a primary school, and leads a quiet life. To rescue one of his young students, Bahzad, and his mother from imminent expulsion from the land, Damien reconnects with his parents' militant past and convinces his sister Mélanie, who has become a formidable business lawyer, her best friend Rudy and a bunch of unlikely pals to accompany him in his new fight. Together, they will break the law by solidarity. And very quickly to be completely exceeded.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2019-03-06
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Voyages
Overview: A woman meets a man in a bar late in the evening and goes to his apartment. A woman picks up a girl from school and runs with the child through the park. If we see such scenes in a movie, or are we watching such situations in life, we quickly believe we know who these women are: a woman looking for a fleeting adventure in the first scene, a caring mother in the second.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2019-07-18
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Mama Weed
Overview: A translator working for the police gets involved in the other side of drug dealing.
Genres: Crime Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2020-09-09
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Brooklyn
Overview: Coralie runs away from Switzerland. She arrives in Paris to take her chance into Hip Hop music. She’s hired as a cook in a local association in the parisian suburb of Saint-Denis. Coralie meets Issa, the rising star of the hood…
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2015-09-23
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Roxane
Overview: What does Cyrano de Bergerac do at a chicken farmer? This is the problem of Raymond, who has always kept his passion for the theater hidden. But when he is threatened with bankruptcy, he decides to try everything for the whole.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2019-06-12
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The Idol
Overview: An Australian actress forms a spiritual bond with an elderly Chinese chef who lives across from her in a Parisian tenement house.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2002-08-06
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Voyages
Overview: In the first of the three linked episodes of French writer-director Emmanuel Finkiel’s delicate, poignant Voyages, a bus tour of Poland, by present-day French survivors of the Holocaust, suffers a mishap: en route to Auschwitz from a Jewish cemetery, the bus breaks down. In the second episode, one of them confronts the possibility that her father, long presumed to be among the Six Million, in fact survived; but is he her father?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1999-05-17
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The Day of the Jackal
Overview: An international assassin known as ‘The Jackal’ is employed by disgruntled French generals to kill President Charles de Gaulle, with a dedicated gendarme on the assassin’s trail.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-05-16
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Saint-Germain-des-Prés, un paradis perdu
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2019-11-20
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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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Dilili in Paris
Overview: With the help of her delivery-boy friend, Dilili, a young Kanak, investigates a spate of mysterious kidnappings of young girls that is plaguing Belle Epoque Paris. In the course of her investigation she encounters a series of extraordinary characters, each of whom provides her with clues that will help her in her quest.
Genres: Animation Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2018-10-10
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Retirement Home
Overview: A story of friendship between a young convict who is forced to work in a retirement home and a group of crazy old people. Together they organize their escape.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2022-02-16
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Stuck Together
Overview: Seven families live in the Parisian apartment building at 8, Rue de l’Humanite - and they didn’t escape to the countryside at the arrival of the coronavirus. Three months of life under lockdown will reveal the best and worst of these neighbours.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2021-10-20
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La Bastide bleue
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Genres: TV Movie Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2005-07-16
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Peut-être
Overview: Arthur is invited to a New Year's Eve party to celebrate the year 2000. His girlfriend Lucie would like a baby from him but he refuses. Through the ceiling of the toilets, he discovers a passage leading to this futurist Paris. There, he meets an old man Ako who affirms he is his son and that he wants to exist. Otherwise he will vanish into the air. Arthur is still hesitant because his life is an unfulfilled one: a has a little lucrative job, is uncertain about his future and things are getting out of hand when Ako discovers the passage and interferes in the party.
Genres: Science Fiction Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1999-11-10
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Portrait of Marianne
Overview: Octave, a young painter, realizes that his wife Marianne has left without a word or explanation. With his best friend Alfred he wanders the streets of Paris, in search of Marianne.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1971-02-03
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Enigma
Overview: Five highly-trained KGB agents are sent to the west to assassinate several Soviet dissidents. In order to stop the diabolical plot, an American agent must infiltrate Soviet intelligence and obtain information from a Russian computer.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-10-15
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The Happiest Place on Earth
Overview: The story of Robert Hughes-Lambert, who was captured by Nazis when his active homosexuality was discovered during the filming of Mermoz (1943).
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1999-04-28
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