Stanislas Merhar
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Paris, France
Adult: No
Birthday: January 23, 1971
Age: 54 years old
Gender: Male
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Too Far From Home
Overview: 19-year-old Morgane puts her studies on hold and moves to Amsterdam to work as an Au Pair for a French family. Eager to stretch her wings and experience new things, the young girl throws herself into her new job taking care of two young children. But Morgane's parents are worried about their daughter's delicate health and the unforthcoming nature of her beguiling employers. The young girl is rattled by the uneasiness that reigns over the eerie house where the family lives, and soon discovers that their last Au Pair disappeared in strange circumstances. All alone in a foreign land and unable to speak the language, Morgane finds herself sinking into a trap. She'll have to fit together all the pieces of the puzzle fast, to save her own skin.
Genres: Thriller Drama TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2021-10-18
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Dry Cleaning
Overview: A bored couple takes in a young man who turns their lives inside out.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1997-09-24
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Knights of the Quest
Overview: In 1271, five young knights journey to Thebes in Greece to recover the Sacred Shroud and deliver it back to France and into the hands of the royal family.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2001-04-06
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Almost Peaceful
Overview: Set during the largely unexplored period immediately following World War II, the film follows a group of mostly Jewish Parisians who attempt to restart their lives and rekindle their capacity for happiness in the shadow of unspeakable horrors. Variety called it "thoroughly charming. Sad, gentle, and funny in the best French tradition of high quality cinema." A film by Marcelo Gomes
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2002-12-18
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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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Adolphe
Overview: Twenty-year old Adolphe finds himself drawn irresistibly to Ellénore, a married woman who is ten years his senior. Although she initially repels her young suitor’s unwanted advances, Ellénore soon yields to his charms and the two embark on a passionate love affair.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2002-10-30
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Franck Spadone
Overview: Professional pickpocket Franck Spadone and his co-horts rob a beautiful stripper (played by Monica Bellucci). But Spadone becomes infatuated with his victim, and soon finds himself in the midst of a gang war because of his affections for her.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2000-07-19
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Being Maria
Overview: A young, struggling actress lands her dream role in a film by an emerging Italian director, starring alongside an American superstar. What begins as her big breakthrough quickly turns into a living hell.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2024-06-19
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The Art of Love
Overview: Several interconnected chapters follow a variety of Parisian couples navigating love, desire, and relationships. Isabelle, frustrated by a year of celibacy, rejects her friend Zoé’s offer to "borrow" her husband and instead impersonates their mutual friend Amélie, who cannot bring herself to sleep with her close friend Boris. Meanwhile, the lonely Achille is stunned when his alluring new neighbor appears at his door in a negligee, proposing an affair. Elsewhere, middle-aged Emmanuelle struggles with an overwhelming attraction to every handsome man she encounters, threatening her marriage, while a young couple wrestles with jealousy. Each chapter delves into the unpredictability of love with humor and poignancy.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2011-11-23
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The Art of Breaking Up
Overview: Lucette and Edouard: Two lovers passionate about sex, money and life. He is a spoiled but penniless child who wants it all while she is a celebrated figure of la vie parisienne who knows what she wants and what she is worth. Edouard is marrying a young, pretty and rich heiress. He comes to confess this to Lucette and to make their parting official, but he doesn’t want to leave her. He struggles with all his might to hide his betrayal but her opportunities to learn of it are countless and unpredictable.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2005-04-27
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Almayer's Folly
Overview: A tale of an occidental merchant, Kaspar Almayer, whose dreams of riches for his beloved daughter, Nina, collapse under the weight of his own greed and prejudice.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2012-01-25
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Workers for the Good Lord
Overview: After his wife leaves him, Fred goes on a cross-country crime spree in this dark but dreamy French comedy.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2000-03-08
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Iris in Bloom
Overview: An 18-year-old beauty develops an attraction to an older photographer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2011-07-27
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Legacy
Overview: Three French hipsters and their translator travel through rural Georgia to claim a remote, ruined castle that one of them has inherited. En route, they encounter an old man and his grandchild who are on a journey to carry out a mysterious, morbid ritual designed to end a conflict between warring clans.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2006-09-20
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The Chalk Circle Man
Overview: For months a strange phrase has been found scrawled on Paris sidewalks next to chalk circles containing odd objects. Policeman Adamsberg gets involved when a dead woman is found in one of the circles.
Genres: Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2009-10-28
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Faux Frères
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2019-03-22
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Fanon
Overview: Frantz Fanon, a French psychiatrist from Martinique, has just been appointed head of department at the psychiatric hospital in Blida, Algeria. His methods contrast with those of the other doctors in a context of colonization. A biopic in the heart of the Algerian war where a fight is waged in the name of Humanity.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2024-12-03
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Nobel
Overview: A movie from the italian director Fabio Carpi.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-11-16
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Furia
Overview: In a desert town, sometime in the future, a repressive government regime restricts all forms of artistic expression. At night, Theo breaks the law, risking torture and death, to paint his work on public spaces. But when his lover Elia is arrested for committing the same crime, Theo allows himself to be captured hoping to somehow be reunited with her.
Genres: Drama Romance Science Fiction
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1999-05-01
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In the Shadow of Women
Overview: Pierre and Manon are poor. They make documentaries with nothing and they live by doing odd jobs. Pierre meets a young intern, Elisabeth, and she becomes his mistress. But Pierre will not leave Manon for Elisabeth; he wants to keep both.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2015-05-27
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Les Secrets de la princesse de Cadignan
Overview: "Don Juan woman", according to the expression of Balzac. A princess, a great seductress. Of a diabolical intelligence. This woman, who has had many lovers - almost all the male characters of the "Comédie Humaine" -, will finally find love. The real one. The great one.
Genres: History Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2023-09-13
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Entre vents et marées
Overview: In Brittany, a notary is killed with shots to the head. His wife Joséphine is a suspect. Her husband had just sold part of their property to two shady real estate developers who wanted to transform the little fishing village into an ultra-modern marina for wealthy clients.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2014-08-31
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Madame
Overview: Anne and Bob, a well-to-do American couple, have just moved to a beautiful manor house in romantic Paris. To impress their sophisticated friends, they decide to host a lavish dinner party, but must disguise their maid as a noblewoman to even out the number of guests. When the maid runs off with a wealthy guest, Anne must chase her around Paris to thwart the joyous and unexpected love affair.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-08-17
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Zaïde, un petit air de vengeance
Overview: Haunted by the mysterious death of her son, found drowned, Anna returns to the town where he lived.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2001-03-22
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Milady
Overview: Milady De Winter, a beautiful femme fatale without scruples, plays with the feelings of her suitors. And sometimes very dangerously.
Genres: Adventure TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2004-01-06
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Left Foot Right Foot
Overview: The loss of youth and innocence can be played for comedy or tragedy. The stunning black-and-white cinematography and hypnotic electric guitar that fill "Left Foot Right Foot", as portentous as they are beautiful, are a pretty clear indication which side of the coin photographer Germinal Roaux intends to focus on in his first feature.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2013-10-23
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The Turn of Winter
Overview: Two police officers investigate a murder in the middle on an endless winter in a small town.
Genres: Romance Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2016-06-16
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The Letter
Overview: A well-bred, lovely, spiritual, sad young woman marries an attentive physician who loves her. She feels affection but no love. Soon after, without design, she falls in love with Pedro Abrunhosa, a poet and performance artist. He also loves her. She keeps her distance from him, confessing her love to a friend who is a nun and, later, to her husband. Hunger for her love and jealousy consume him; she attends him as he wastes away. With his death, she can marry and express her passion, but what she does and how she explains herself, particularly to her cloistered friend, is at the heart of the film. Glimpses of convent life and of Abrunhosa on stage give contrast and mute comment.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1999-09-22
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Thank You, Doctor Rey
Overview: A gay young man is recruited into an illicit love triangle to watch a much older man’s sexual liaison, but ends up witnessing what turns out to be his murder. The next day the young man's opera diva mother informs him that his estranged father has been in Paris... until the previous night when he was murdered. Seeking help with a psychiatrist, the young man comes across an eccentric actress who has come totally unhinged by the death of that psychiatrist, the infamous Docteur Rey. At first mistaking her for the doctor, the young man embarks on a madcap mystery, reminiscent of an Agatha Christie novel, with Paris as the backdrop.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-08-20
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The Black Book
Overview: The story of the adventures, in the twilight of the eighteenth century, of a singular couple formed by a little orphan with mysterious origins and his young Italian nurse of a similarly uncertain birth. They lead us in their wake, from Rome to Paris, from Lisbon to London, from Parma to Venice. Always followed in the shadows, for obscure reasons, by a suspicious-looking Calabrian and a troubling cardinal, they make us explore the dark intrigues of the Vatican, the pangs of a fatal passion, a gruesome duel, banter at the court of Versailles and the convulsions of the French Revolution.
Genres: Romance Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2018-10-03
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Rosenn
Overview: A famous English writer, Lewis Lafoly, forty and languidly elegant, meets Rosennn Auroch, a young and radiant woman on Bourbon Island in the Indian Ocean in 1909...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2014-03-12
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Rogue City
Overview: Caught in the crosshairs of police corruption and Marseille’s warring gangs, a loyal cop must protect his squad by taking matters into his own hands.
Genres: Crime Thriller Action Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2020-10-30
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Seasons of Love
Overview: 1934. Philippe falls in love with Odile, a beautiful stranger, and decides to marry her, against the will of his parents. They would have preferred a more bourgeois bride, ideally from their own milieu: the paper industry in Angoulême. Isabelle, for instance, whom they have known since she was a child, would have been the perfect match. But Philippe sticks to his choice and marries Odile. At first the newly-weds are passionately in love, and the whole family looks forward to the birth of an heir for the Marcenat family. But in vain. Instead, Odile neglects her marriage and devotes herself to drawing, a gift she inherited from her father. Or is her rekindled interest in art classes more the result of her encounter with the charming but mysterious artist François Crozant? Philippe sense that he's losing his wife and becomes madly jealous of François. Meanwhile Isabelle, who's secretly in love with Philippe, is just waiting for the right moment.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2012-01-14
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Müetter
Overview: Stephane is a young urbanite. Though he originally hails from a rural environment, he much prefers his current metropolitan surroundings to the thought of returning to his family home. Fate comes knocking, however, when Stephane receives the news of his grandmother, Muetter's, impending death - and travels out to the country to be with her at her bedside. Once there, he encounters a sweet, pretty young lady named Marguerite, who is expecting a child but devotes the majority of her time to caring altruistically for Muetter. Upon discovering that the elderly woman's doctor has simply prescribed and administered morphine for her, Stephane is visibly upset, and devotes himself to doing as much as he can - everything from preparing a feast in celebration of Muetter to summoning another physician. Meanwhile, Stephane's cousin, Mathieu arrives and struggles with various feelings about Stephane's presence.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2006-01-11
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The Heart Elsewhere
Overview: This is the story of an actor who trains, a man who remembers, a son who mourns. It is also the story of a book, and of a character who enters into it.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2025-04-04
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Case 137
Overview: Stéphanie, a police officer working for Internal Affairs, is assigned to a case involving a young man severely wounded during a tense and chaotic demonstration in Paris. While she finds no evidence of illegitimate police violence, the case takes a personal turn when she discovers the victim is from her hometown.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2025-11-19
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