Elsa Zylberstein
Also Known As: Elsa Steiner, 엘자 질버스테인
Biography: Elsa Zylberstein (born 16 October 1968) is a French film, TV, and stage actress. After studying drama, Zylberstein began her film career in 1989. She won the César Award for Best Supporting Actress for I've Loved You So Long (2008). Description above from the Wikipedia article Elsa Zylberstein, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Paris, France
Adult: No
Birthday: October 16, 1968
Age: 56 years old
Gender: Female
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Love Is Better Than Life
Overview: Upon their release from prison twenty years earlier, Gérard, Ary and Philippe asked themselves if honesty was not the best racket of them all. Today, they are inseparable and scrupulously above board. But Gérard learns he is terminally ill. Their friend’s days being numbered, Ary and Philippe want to offer him one last love story… because, as Gérard likes to say : love is better than life.
Genres: Comedy Romance Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2022-01-19
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Van Gogh
Overview: After leaving the asylum, Vincent van Gogh settles in the home of Doctor Gachet, where he keeps painting amidst the torments of his failing mental health. He begins an affair with his host’s daughter, however, she soon realizes that he doesn’t love her and that his heart beats only for art.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1991-10-30
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Farinelli
Overview: The life and career of Italian opera singer Farinelli, considered one of the greatest castrato singers of all time.
Genres: History Drama Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1994-12-01
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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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The Stone Council
Overview: In France, the single translator Diane Siprien adopts an Asian baby named Liu-San in a foundation directed by Sybille Weber. Years later, a weird mark appears on the boy's chest and Diane and Liu share their dreadful nightmares. Diane is assigned for a three-day job in Germany and she leaves Liu with her friend Sybille. However, while going to the airport, Diane finds Liu hidden in the backseat and startles with an eagle flying toward the windshield, crashing her car. Liu falls into a coma and his digital recorder records the boy speaking in an unknown dialect. When Diane searches the translation and the origins of Liu, she is surrounded by mysterious murders. She discovers that the dialect is from the mystic Mongolian Tseven tribe and that Liu is a powerful Observer; further, he is in danger, threatened by sorcerers that need the boy for their Council of the Stone..
Genres: Adventure Crime Drama Fantasy Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-11-15
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I've Loved You So Long
Overview: A woman struggles to interact with her family and find her place in society after spending fifteen years in prison.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2008-03-19
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Modigliani
Overview: Set in Paris in 1919, biopic centers on the life of late Italian artist Amedeo Modigliani, focusing on his last days as well as his rivalry with Pablo Picasso. Modigliani, a Jew, has fallen in love with Jeanne, a young and beautiful Catholic girl. The couple has an illegitimate child, and Jeanne's bigoted parents send the baby to a faraway convent to be raised by nuns.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-05-18
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Loser Takes All!
Overview: Serge Vaudier, a mathematics teacher, wins the lotto twice and claims he can do it again, thanks to an infallible system he has designed. Is a he genius or a con man? Angèle, the head of the the government's bureau, is determined to entrap him. She asks her secret lover, Jacques Loriot, an expert player in the casinos, for help.
Genres: Mystery Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2004-06-23
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Man Is a Woman
Overview: Simon Eskenazy is a gay Parisian clarinet player who lives his single life to the fullest. One day, he receives a very tempting offer from his homophobic uncle, looking to continue the family legacy – if he gets married and has a child, he will receive ten million francs and inherit his uncle's luxurious mansion. After meeting Rosalie Baumann at his cousin David's wedding, and with some convincing on his mother's part, Simon sees an opportunity to fulfill his uncle's wishes and the pair go ahead and get married, but not before traveling to New York to meet Rosalie's Orthodox Jewish family. As Simon tries to develop real feelings for Rosalie, he struggles with his feelings for his newlywed cousin David.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1998-03-11
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Enfances
Overview: Six stories, six films that follow on from each other; this is a glance at the childhood of renowned directors whose style has marked the history of film. A group of young directors focus their cameras on the story of these filmmakers, these childhood stories that sometimes shape an entire life and thus shed light on their cinematic works. The stories overlap to merge into one film about childhood, filled with emotional wounds, frustrations and encounters.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2007-10-02
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Angel
Overview: Léa is a strong person, but when she comes out of prison, she decides to get a fresh start. She would like to forget her cold and aloof father Vittorio Pastore, her young and irresponsible brother Samy for who she went in jail and the Zach's gang, the thug she used to love. But nothing elapses as she expected.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2001-06-20
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Monsieur N.
Overview: This film covers the last years of the Emperor's life, imprisoned by the British on St Helena, a remote island off the west coast of Africa. Napoleon retains a loyal entourage of officers who help him plot his escape and evade the attentions of the island's overzealous governor, Sir Hudson Lowe.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2003-01-15
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Three Blind Mice
Overview: Thomas is a talented computer programmer living in a vibrant, urban metropolis. Lonely and unsure about life, he finds solitude in the world of internet chat rooms, webcam sites and virtual communication. One evening, Thomas witnesses the brutal murder of a webcam friend and in a vain attempt to protect her he becomes the prime suspect in the homicide. Determined to prove his innocence, Thomas teams up with Claire, a specialist in internet crimes to uncover the truth. To expose the murderer, Claire and Thomas decide to set up their own webcam site using Claire as the cyber bait. Somewhere down the line the truth becomes blurred and Thomas no longer knows where to turn or who to trust. As his life starts to spiral out of control, he has to face the terrifying reality that he could be the next victim.........the virtual nightmare has only just begun.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-10-08
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That Day
Overview: A father is scheming to have his slightly mental daughter from an earlier marriage killed by allowing a murderous psychopath to be released from the asylum and led to his house. However, the psychopath and the daughter fall for each other.
Genres: Mystery Drama Comedy Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2003-06-04
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Lover
Overview: Marie lives with Antoine, but while he is away she meets Paul, a filmmaker visiting from Canada. Paul is instantly smitten and wants her to marry him. She puts him off by saying that she and Antoine have decided to have a baby. When Antoine returns, he becomes vividly jealous of his girlfriend's chaste encounter, which provokes her into having an affair with Paul.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1992-02-12
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Champagne !
Overview: Springtime in the French vineyards of Champagne. Patrick has gathered his oldest friends for his bachelor party. The trouble is, everyone hates his future wife. This could thus become one hellish weekend in gourmet paradise.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2022-06-08
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The Human Voice
Overview: A woman’s last phone conversation with her lover, who now loves someone else.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-01-01
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La Petite Jérusalem
Overview: An orthodox Jewish teen living with her family in France attempts to balance her religious upbringing with her increasingly complex view of the outside world.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2005-12-14
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He's My Girl
Overview: A clarinetist is trying to finish his record when his wife and ten year old son reappear in his life. His 10-year-old son whom he has never seen, and Naim, a young Muslim transvestite who will change his life ...
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2009-12-03
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The Feelings Factory
Overview: A successful woman searches for romance by speed dating in this drama. Eloise has a great job and a great education, but she's looking for love. Can a couple of minutes be the key to finding true love?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2008-02-06
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At The End Of The Day
Overview: In an increasingly crazy world, Lino, who has decided to leave everything behind, will come to realise that, at the end of the day, everything that happens to us is for our own good!
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2024-09-19
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Beau fixe
Overview: A group of 4 girls decide to revise for their exams together, in the summer vacation. They move from Paris to the countryside, where Valerie's grandmother has a vacant house. The film is all about their inter-personal relationships, and how living together effects each of them. Then Valerie's male cousin arrives one day, and we see how they deal with the young man, and vice versa
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1992-11-18
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Shoot to Live
Overview: A documentary on filmmaker Claude Lelouch, following him over seven years.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2022-05-11
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Why (Not) Brazil?
Overview: A film director, whose career is going downhill, reluctantly decides to adapt an inadaptable best selling novel. Will she succeed or will the book adapt her in the process?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2004-09-15
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A Butterfly Kiss
Overview: Billie and Louis have the good fortune of loving each other passionately and of having a family. But then one day terrible news turns their existence and that of their friends' upside down. Marie, a famous actress who is Billie's friend and confidant, redoubles her determination to give life, while Alice, her nurse, fighting for freedom, maintains that life 'is here and now and in the moment.' A film about love, hope, and the conviction that the force of life, despite the toughest tests, will always gain the upper hand.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2011-06-01
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La cloche a sonné
Overview: Simon Arcos has a unique method for overcoming stress and the sores of life. Jean, Léa, Nathalie, Yolaine, Antoine and Hervé signed up for one of his internships. They are not out of the woods.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2005-08-17
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I Want It All
Overview: The collision between family life and career lies at the heart of this comedy hailing from France. A mother of two small children, Eva's life goes from stressful to insane when she is told that she is a project finalist for the design of a massive European hospital. She and her working husband Philippe try desperately to balance their commitments to their kids, careers, and themselves.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1999-11-17
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Mina Tannenbaum
Overview: The film tells the story of two girls who are of totally different character. They know each other since their childhood and were friends until they became teenagers. But growing up and becoming adults they go different ways.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1994-03-02
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Tomorrow We Move
Overview: When her mother moves in, the life of a writer gets crowded.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2004-03-03
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Les Tribulations d'une caissière
Overview: La vie n’est pas rose tous les jours pour Solweig, caissière dans un supermarché. Mais elle garde le sourire, malgré les remarques souvent déplaisantes des clients et un chef teigneux. Peut-être grâce au blog qu’elle tient en secret, où elle s’épanche avec humour sur son quotidien difficile… Un soir, sous la neige, son destin croise celui de Charles. Le jeune homme tombe aussitôt amoureux d’elle, sans se douter qu’ils ne sont pas du même monde. Mais si un simple blog peut changer le sort de milliers de caissières, n’est-il pas permis de croire aux contes de fées ?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-12-14
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La Double Inconstance
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Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2009-11-02
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Love Torn in a Dream
Overview: A serious young man of free spirit is forced by his surroundings to become rich at all costs. A group of blind children tries to open the eyes of the unbelievers to the Christian faith. Retired nuns who open a brothel, to pay the running costs of the convent. These rather ironic paradoxes turn this fairytale into a philosophical fable.
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2000-11-22
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Proper Attire Required
Overview: His estranged wife is worth millions, but poor Paris resident Richard is homeless and jobless. He applied for unemployment benefits and now faces charges of fraud. To save himself from nine months in jail he must find his wife and force her to tell the courts the truth, that though she has married a politically-ambitious American governor and is filing U.S. tax returns, she is technically still married to Richard. But as she lives in America, how can he get to her? Opportunity knocks when Richard learns that she and her husband will be attending an international conference at an exclusive Paris hotel. To get in he will need a disguise.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1997-03-21
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Féroce
Overview: Gilles de Maistre's political thriller Féroce (Ferocious) is about a man seeking revenge. Arab Alain (Samy Naceri) decides to join a fascistic French political party in order to assassinate the leader, Legle (Jean-Marc Thibault). Alain comes to this decision when his girlfriend's brother is murdered after he had defaced some of the party's paraphernalia. To improve the party's public stance on immigrants, Alain is hired as a security guard. Legle's daughter is attracted to Alain, who is tempted enough by the girl to abandon some of his religious convictions.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2002-04-17
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Plan de table
Overview: A brief but intense hug will have the effect of throwing a meticulously planned wedding into chaos. Is chance about to give fate a helping hand?
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2012-04-10
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Play It Like Godard
Overview: Jean-Christophe Kern, known as JC, is not a teenager like any other: he won the Palme d’Or at the age of 15, the Cesar at 16. This year, he is trying to graduate from high school.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2012-02-08
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Lautrec
Overview: The life of Henri de Toulouse Lautrec, famous french painter, who lived, enjoyed, loved in the late 1800s Paris' Montmartre cultural life. He suffered from suffered from congenital health conditions traditionally attributed to inbreeding. His lifestyle and work are a testimony of the late-19th-century parisian bohemian lifestyle, as he was commissioned to produce a series of posters for the Moulin Rouge cabaret opening. As an alcoholic, he was addicted to absinthe. The movie related his love affair with the french painter Suzanne Valadon.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1998-09-09
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Nucingen House
Overview: Surreal gothic comedy about a gambler who wins a strange Chilean mansion and takes his frail wife there.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2009-06-03
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Romy : 40 ans après, ultimes confidences
Overview: To honour the 40th anniversary of her death, multiple personalities share their feelings and thoughts about the life and career of the fabulous and bold actress Romy Schneider. Among them, Alain Delon, icon of French cinema and Romy's first great love, reads her the love letter which he wrote her forty years ago, the day after she passed away.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2022-05-24
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La Meilleure d'entre nous
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
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Gemma Bovery
Overview: Martin, an ex-Parisian well-heeled hipster passionate about Gustave Flaubert who settled into a Norman village as a baker, sees an English couple moving into a small farm nearby. Not only are the names of the new arrivals Gemma and Charles Bovery, but their behavior also seems to be inspired by Flaubert's heroes.
Genres: Romance Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2014-09-10
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Metroland
Overview: In late-1970s suburban London, Chris and Marion have settled into a comfortable yet all-too-predictable middle-class existence. Chris receives an unexpected visit from his free-spirited friend Toni, a reunion that reminds him of a more carefree time in 1960s Paris. Now, with lingering doubts about his marriage bubbling up, Chris must make the choice between revisiting his youthful abandon with Toni or facing the here and now with Marion.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-08-30
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Club Zero
Overview: Miss Novak joins the staff of an international boarding school to teach a conscious eating class and forms a strong bond with five students that eventually takes a dangerous turn.
Genres: Thriller Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2023-09-27
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Roses à crédit
Overview: A young couple marry in France in the 1940s and the film follows the arc of their marriage over the next decade. As France recovers from the trauma of the war, the wife finds herself increasingly caught up in acquiring material possessions while the husband prefers a more traditional lifestyle.
Genres: Romance Drama War TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2010-09-09
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The Madness Express
Overview: Sébastien, a conscientious and professional train inspector, dreams of being transferred to the South of France. To validate his transfer, he has to make one last routine run under the supervision of Madeleine, a slightly sociopathic inspector who won't let him go. That's when everything goes wrong: between a driver who thinks he's driving a fighter jet, a jealous colleague and passengers who are each crazier than the last, what was supposed to be a formality turns into the worst trip of his life.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2023-08-09
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XXL
Overview: Tunisian-Jewish businessman Alain Berrebi (Michel Boujenah) courts Ashkenazi princess Arlette Stern (Elsa Zylberstein). Her father David (Maurice Chevit) learns of the death of a rural Auvergne peasant who once hid David and his cousin Nathan (Felix Fibich) from the Nazis. Nathan is now a NYC diamond dealer on West 47th Street. David, Nathan, Arlette, and Berrebi head for the funeral in Auvergne. There they encounter the deceased peasant's son, Jean Bourdalou (Gerard Depardieu), who operates the family's restaurants in Paris. Arlette does a romantic take on Bourdalou, which sends the distraught Berrebi off to cry on the shoulder of his mother Gaby (Gina Lollobrigida). Back in Paris, Bourdalou and Berrebi make plans to open a trendy fashion restaurant in Manhattan.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1997-12-10
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Un risque à courir
Overview: A young, idle, half-mad man kidnaps a wealthy woman and confines her to the trunk of his car. He drives very close to the police who are watching his victim's house. He talks to the police and accentuates the danger more and more.
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2009-06-27
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Tout sauf l’ennui
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2023-12-22
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Lines of Wellington
Overview: Passionate romance, brutal treachery, and selfless nobility are set against the background of Napoleon’s 1810 invasion of Portugal.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2012-10-04
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Coup de Chance
Overview: Fanny and Jean have everything of an ideal couple: fulfilled in their professional life, they live in a magnificent apartment in the beautiful districts of Paris and seem to be in love as on the first day. But when Fanny crosses, by chance, Alain, a former high school friend, she is immediately capsized. They see each other again very quickly and get closer and closer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2023-09-15
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The Place of Another
Overview: Thomas is an up-and-coming actor. His proud and loving father is watching him in a Shakespeare performance. Not long afterwards, his father dies, Thomas accidentally kills a bicyclist with his car, his girlfriend leaves him, and he develops a disorder of the inner ear. As a consequence of these and other misfortunes, he becomes depressed, attempts suicide, and has a psychotic break which lands him in a mental hospital.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1993-11-17
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The Price of Desire
Overview: Irish architect and furniture designer Eileen Gray (1878–1976) was a leading light in the modern design movement. This graceful portrayal of her later life and work in France focuses on the triangle of tension between Gray (Orla Brady), her lover Badovici (Francesco Scianna) and Le Corbusier (Vincent Perez). Alanis Morrissette also features as chanteuse Marisa Damia, Gray’s other lover, with Dominique Pinon (Delicatessen, Amélie) as artist Fernand Léger.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-03-19
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Un + une
Overview: A successful film composer falls in love when he travels to India to work on a Bollywood retelling of Romeo and Juliet.
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2015-12-09
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Shadow Play
Overview: Ada and Lise are both costume designers, the first is around 20, the other around 30. Both are working hard on their break through. There are also jobs for the movies. This is where Lise meets producer Alphonse, who is nearly 20 years older than she. Because he is unhappy with his girlfriend a secret relationship evolves. Ada has problems as well, but she's not the only one. There are also the young Emma and Nina, as well as Yves and Guido - enough people to get into complicated relationship entanglements.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1996-09-12
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My Dad Is Into Terrorism
Overview: Hostage-taking, deadly bombings in Paris, lobbying, media and judicial machinery. This is the story of a carefree little girl, suddenly confronted with death threats, the bodyguards, to fear ... until the final drama, one winter evening in 1990.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2006-01-04
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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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Cycle Of Time
Overview: In 1950s France, Helene and Michel lead a simple life until a freak accident in 2025 leads to Helene becoming a bank executive and Michel struggling with unemployment and depression. Their children grow up in a technology-dominated world.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2025-10-22
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Natacha (Almost) Air Hostess
Overview: France, 1963. Since she was a child, Natacha has dreamed of freedom and adventure. Her dream has a name: air hostess. She admires the women who fly the world, with no ties, no husbands, and no cooking to do. Despite all her efforts Natacha does not match the walking fantasy that an air hostess is supposed to embody at the time. She's too... or not enough... whatever it is, she hasn't got it!
Genres: Comedy Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2025-04-02
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Brighton Storeys
Overview: In Brighton on the South coast of England, sharpened by the sting of sea spray, and mellowed by numinous light, a tight-knit community of oddballs and heart-felts live together in a tatty old mansion, the Fletcher Apartments. When a golden feather, the priceless antique mascot of the building, unexpectedly disappears, the residents have a mystery to solve. Will they find the talisman that previously bound them together, or will their community, now divided against itself, irrevocably unravel?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
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A Bag of Marbles
Overview: At the beginning of the 1940s, in a France occupied by Nazi forces, lived the Jewish Joffo family. Happy and tight-knit, she sees her future darken when all members of the family are forced to wear the yellow star. Fearing the worst, the parents organized their family to flee to the free zone in the south of the country. Maurice, twelve years old, and Joseph, ten years old, will therefore leave alone in order to maximize their chances of finding their older brothers already settled in Nice. The brothers left to their own devices demonstrate an incredible amount of cleverness, courage, and ingenuity to escape the enemy invasion and to try to reunite their family once again.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2017-01-18
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Comment font les gens
Overview: Serge and Yvette are on the verge of separating. Hervé and Irene are already separated. Serge will meet Irene and Yvette will meet Hervé. Chance will make them meet other characters.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1993-07-23
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The Stalking Moon
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Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
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The No-Job Agency
Overview: Stéphane, Cathy and Thierry are the best employees of the Employment Agency of their city. But their results are so good that the agency will have to close because of a lack of unemployed. The three colleagues then have the crazy idea of creating unemployment to save their job.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2016-11-16
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Alisée
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1993-01-01
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Time Regained
Overview: In early 1920s France, an author, lying on his deathbed, looks at various photographs and is flooded with memories of the people and events that have shaped his life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1999-05-19
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With Open Arms
Overview: Jean-Étienne Fougerole is an intellectual bohemian who released his new novel "In Open Arms" and calling the wealthiest people to welcome home the families in need. While he promotes his book during a televised debate, his opponent criticized him for not applying what he himself advocates. While stuck, Jean-Étienne Fougerole accepts the challenge, for fear of being discredited. The same evening, a family of Roma rings the door of his Marnes-la-Coquette villa and the writer feels obliged to house them.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2017-04-05
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Everyone's Life
Overview: Before being judges, attorneys, or jury members, they are first of all men and women at a crossroads in their lives, with their dreams and their secrets, their hopes and their limitations, all beneath the same sun, each with their own dark side. In a lovely provincial town, during a jazz festival, life will juggle with their destinies.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2017-03-15
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Return to Algiers
Overview: Famous TV news anchorman Pierre Nivel left Algiers for France in 1962. That's been a secret; his Paris co-workers have never known that he was formerly an Algerian pied noir. An Algerian delivers an urgent message to Pierre from a Leïla Jalal... Algiers, 1962. The Nivels live in the same apartment building as the Moslem Jalal family. Lycée student Pierre is in love with their daughter, Leïla. The civil unrest in Algeria is heating up and violence is spreading in Algiers. At school, Pierre is friends with a Moslem student, Issam, but he is made fun of for that... Pierre's jet arrives in Algiers. As a celebrity, Pierre is met on arrival by a government official, Nader Mansour. Because of the civil war raging between the government and Islamic terrorists, they drive into the city in a heavily armed convoy. Pierre does not tell Mansour his real reason for returning: Leïla has asked him to help her daughter Amina escape to safety in France.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2000-04-12
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Rolling to You
Overview: Jocelyn is a selfish and misogynist businessman. He tries to seduce a young pretty woman by pretending to be handicapped, till the day he meets her sister, who is also in a wheelchair.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2018-03-14
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De force avec d'autres
Overview: Actor and singer on the decline, Sergio, alcoholic, goes adrift. His son, Simon, undertakes to make a film with and on him, to try to bring him back to life, "by force with others"
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1993-04-24
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Bel Canto
Overview: A famous opera singer is held hostage in South America by a guerrilla rebel group after performing at a Japanese businessman's lavish birthday party. Unexpected bonds are forged in the standoff that ensues.
Genres: Drama Music Romance Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-09-13
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The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Adventures in the Secret Service
Overview: Indy finds that he must enlist the help of Hapsburg royalty when he embarks on a dangerous diplomatic mission through enemy-held Europe into the palace of Emperor Karl of Austria. Endangering his life and the lives of his royal charges, Indy gambles all in a desperate attempt to bring the war more quickly to an end. Then, in chaos-ridden Russia, Indy finds his espionage work once again threatening lives when he infiltrates a group of young Bolsheviks and begins to empathize with their plight. As the country lurches toward revolution, Indy finds himself torn between loyalty to his friends and his military duty.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-10-26
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Waiting for Anya
Overview: During the harrows of WWII, Jo, a young shepherd along with the help of the widow Horcada, helps to smuggle Jewish children across the border from southern France into Spain.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-02-07
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À votre bon cœur, mesdames
Overview: The story of a septuagenarian, recently divorced, which in its reconstruction desire and quest for a new companion will rediscover the small pleasures of life and the art of seduction.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2013-12-04
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Selfie
Overview: In a world where digital technology has invaded our lives, some of us end up cracking. Addict or technophobe, with family or at school, at work or in love, SELFIE tells the comic and wild destinies of Homo Numericus on the verge of a nervous breakdown.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2020-01-15
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I Wish Someone Were Waiting for Me Somewhere
Overview: In the beautiful family home, at the end of the summer, Monique celebrates her 70th birthday, surrounded by her 4 children, all of whom have come for the occasion. There is Jean-Pierre, the elder, who took on the role of head of the family after the death of his father; Juliette, pregnant with her first child at 40 and who still dreams of becoming a writer; Margaux, the family’s radical artist, and Mathieu, 30, anxious to seduce pretty Sarah. Later, one day, one of them will make a life-changing decision ...
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2020-01-22
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This Night
Overview: Werner Schroeter directed this dark and surreal tale of a man determined to save a lost lover from a grim fate at the hands of a violent mob. The city of Santa Maria is falling into chaos as an armed military faction is poised to take power in a coup d'etat. Ossorio used to call Santa Maria home, and he has returned in its darkest hour to find the woman he loves, hoping to rescue her from the violence that is lurks around the corner. As Ossorio searches for his love, he meets Victoria in a shabby hotel, who in turn introduces him to her father Barcala, who for the right price is willing to take Ossorio and another passenger away on his boat. While Ossorio is willing to pay Barcala what he wants, can he find the mysterious woman before the ship sets sail?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2009-01-07
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Snow and Fire
Overview: While the Nazis occupied most of France, Jacques (Vincent Perez) has been active in the liberation underground. Now that the Allies have freed a significant portion of their country from German control, he and his buddy Michel (Matthieu Roze) can join the Free French army and fight with them to help bring about the downfall of the German empire. Both of them are quite young men, and their first love turns out to be the same woman, a lovely nurse named Christiane (Geraldine Pailhas). Michel woos her first, and she becomes pregnant by him. However, she is much more interested in Jacques, even though she is considering marrying an American solely for practical reasons.
Genres: War Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1991-12-11
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An Irrepressible Woman
Overview: 1940, Jeanne Reichenbach turns her back on a peaceful life to link her destiny to Léon Blum. She's been loving him since her teenage years, and is ready to sacrifice her freedom to mary him at Buchenwald, where he's held prisoner. They will survive together.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2020-01-15
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Bigbug
Overview: Set in the world of 2045, where communities have robotic helpers, a group of suburbanites are locked in for their protection by their household robots, while a rogue, self-aware AI android revolt uprising takes place outside.
Genres: Science Fiction Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2022-02-11
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Tout nous sourit
Overview: The members of an apparently happy couple, each with their respective lovers, have the same idea: spending the weekend at their holiday home. Finding each other there is only the beginning of an awkward and hilarious weekend.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2021-10-20
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Isn't She Lovely?
Overview: A couple of parents get in over their heads when they decide to use Scandinavian alternative teaching methods for their teenager.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2020-07-22
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Dance of Chance
Overview: That day, there’s tension in the air: Marianne has her car and dog stolen from a highway parking lot. Stéphane is constantly arguing with his wife. Noémie can no longer stand her husband Aldo’s infidelities. A little-known orchestra performs for the last time…
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2019-08-22
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Jefferson in Paris
Overview: His wife having recently died, Thomas Jefferson accepts the post of United States ambassador to pre-revolutionary France, though he finds it difficult to adjust to life in a country where the aristocracy subjugates an increasingly restless peasantry. In Paris, he becomes smitten with cultured artist Maria Cosway, but, when his daughter visits from Virginia accompanied by her attractive slave, Sally Hemings, Jefferson's attentions are diverted.
Genres: Drama Romance History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-03-31
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Les fantômes de Louba
Overview: Louba never knew her father and lost her mother when she was five years old. Placed in a host family, she meets Jeannie, a pretty and sensual girl. But, haunted by her past, Louba is unable to express her emotions and her need for love.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2001-02-14
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Simone: Woman of the Century
Overview: Simone Veil's life story through the pivotal events of Twentieth Century. Her childhood, her political battles, her tragedies. An intimate and epic portrait of an extraordinary woman who eminently challenged and transformed her era defending a humanist message still keenly relevant today.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2022-10-12
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Not Afraid, Not Afraid
Overview: After being abandoned by her husband after 28 years, an overbearing, self-centered psychologist embarks on a quest to revisit her past loves, accompanied by her 6-year-old grandson, who has Down syndrome, after he turns up unexpectedly in her van.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-01-01
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Great, My Parents Divorce!
Overview: Julien, a boy in the sixth grade, was badly depressed by the divorce of his parents. But he soon found that half of the class had come from broken families.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1991-01-30
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A Day in the Life of French Cinema
Overview: Documentary showing one day of work of over 90 actors and filmmakers from French cinema on the same day. On 27 March 2002, 27 teams filmed actors, directors, producers and technicians at work, from Hawaii to Paris and from New York to Lisbon.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2002-05-20
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Lise
Overview: The WW2 romance drama follows the Giraud family, who take over a hairdressing salon after their father's death. Marie, a French Resistance heroine, takes care of the salon and brings clients to the son. However, Lise enters their lives, disrupting their order and causing a love story.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: fr
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Untitled Christian Dior biopic
Overview: Sets in Paris in 1947, after the Second World War. Over the course of a decade, Dior forges an empire alongside Raymonde Zehnacker, and falls head over heels in love with a much younger man, Jacques Benita.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fr
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Jean Moulin
Overview: The life (and death under torture) of Jean Moulin, head of the French Interior Resistance movements during WWII.
Genres: History Drama TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2002-07-15
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