Jacques Frantz
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Biography: Jacques Frantz (4 April 1947 – 17 March 2021) was a Molière-nominated French actor and voice artist. He is renowned for his theatre work, and his voice, which he has lent to many well known actors such as Robert De Niro, Mel Gibson, John Goodman, and Nick Nolte. Frantz has also appeared in films. Since October 2013, he was the official voice of the radio station Nostalgie.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Dijon, Côte-d'Or, France
Birthday: April 04, 1947
Deathday: March 17, 2021
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Gender: Male
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Cop au Vin
Overview: Unorthodox detective Jean Lavardin is called to a provincial French town after a prank turns deadly.
Genres: Crime Mystery Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1985-04-10
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Counter Investigation
Overview: A cop investigates whether the man convicted of murdering his daughter is really guilty.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2007-03-07
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Poor Bastards
Overview: Poor Bastards is a sketch film, written by twelve authors. Mirror or projection, poor bastards have fun with everyday facts and do not tell a story, but stories. Through these short and bitter stories, are revealed all the cracks of the human race, which, in a movement of globalization and neoliberalism more and more assertive, can lead the ordinary man to be a monster of cowardice, cruelty, indifference or hypocrisy. Poor bastards from an odd angle, transcribe reality provocatively or not, always with the same ambition: to react.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2019-06-05
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Asterix and the Vikings
Overview: Asterix and Obelix have been given a tough mission: Transform the chief's lazy nephew Justforkix into a warrior. When the Vikings abduct him and bring him back to their homeland, Asterix and Obelix must travel to Norway to rescue Justforkix.
Genres: Family Animation Comedy Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2006-04-12
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The Housekeeper
Overview: After his wife leaves him for another man, Jacques hires a housekeeper, Laura, to keep his Paris apartment in order. As he starts increasing her hours and spending more time with her on her days off, Jacques is torn between the pleasure of Laura's company, and the headache that such an intrusion brings to his new domain of singlehood.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2002-11-13
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Heartbreaker
Overview: Alex and his sister run a business designed to break up relationships. They are hired by a rich man to break up the wedding of his daughter. The only problem is that they only have one week to do so.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2010-03-17
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Fan-Fan the Tulip
Overview: In this 2003 remake of the classic 1952 French film, Fanfan la Tulipe is a swashbuckling lover who is tricked into joining the army of King Louis XV by Adeline La Franchise, who tells Fanfan that by doing so, he will eventually marry one of the king's daughters
Genres: Adventure Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2003-06-20
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G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra
Overview: From the Egyptian desert to deep below the polar ice caps, the elite G.I. JOE team uses the latest in next-generation spy and military equipment to fight the corrupt arms dealer Destro and the growing threat of the mysterious Cobra organization to prevent them from plunging the world into chaos.
Genres: Adventure Action Thriller Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-08-03
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The Day Will Come
Overview: Thirty years after giving her daughter up for adoption in order to join the terrorist underground in Germany, Judith is tracked down by her now adult daughter Alice to a vineyard in the Alsace where she is now living with a new family and a new identity. Alice calls on her mother to give herself up, but Judith doesn't regret any of her past deeds.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2009-10-01
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Asylum
Overview: Jack, a young thug, mingles with a bunch of hard boiled gangsters and tries to outsmart them. He ends up tied to a tree on a chain like a dog. A new adventure begins, not the one he had wished for.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2008-04-16
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The True Legend of the Eiffel Tower
Overview: This movie is a docudrama relating the early history of the Eiffel Tower: From the planning to its first military use.
Genres: Documentary History TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2005-12-18
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Chaudemanche, père et fils
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1996-05-13
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A Loving Father
Overview: Writer Léo Shepherd lives in rural France together with his daughter Virginia, who manages his affairs. One day Virginia gets a call from the Swedish Academy. Léo has won the Nobel Prize for Literature. His estranged son Paul tries desperately to contact him, but is denied every time by his sister. When Léo starts traveling to the ceremony in Stockholm by motor bike, Paul decides to follow him and try to speak to him. Clearly Léo doesn't want to be followed, starts speeding and gets involved in a accident, but isn't badly hurt. The police confuse another motorist for Shepherd and announce his death. Paul, driven by his childhood experiences, decides to kidnap his father.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2002-11-13
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Just Like Brothers
Overview: Since Charlie is no longer there, the lives of Boris, Elie, and Maxime have been torn apart. These three men, who have nothing in common, all shared one thing: their love for Charlie. One loved her like a sister, one loved her like the woman of his dreams, one loved her like a friend. Except that Charlie is dead and none of them - not Boris, an accomplished businessman, not Elie, a night owl scriptwriter, and not Maxime, still living at home with his mother - know how to deal with it. But because she asked them to do so, they abruptly decide to undertake a journey together, heading for Corsica and the house that Charlie loved so much. Except that here they are stuck in a car together for over 500 miles. It's going to be a long journey. Boris, Elie and Maxime, three men, three generations, no affinity. But by the time they arrive at their destination, they will have realized one majorly important thing: Charlie has changed their lives forever.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2012-11-21
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My New Partner
Overview: A streetwise Paris policeman who takes kickbacks from the minor criminals on his beat to allow them to continue is assigned an idealistic new partner fresh from police academy. He sets out to corrupt him...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1984-09-19
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The Missing Granddaughter
Overview: Eva is a Jewish literature teacher at a high school in Bordeaux, France, after the Second World War. During the war her whole family was sent to the German extermination camps by French collaborators. Eva survived by chance. Then by chance a new girl enters her class, a girl who resembles Eva's dead daughter.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2007-09-13
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Hothead
Overview: François, a miserable football player, becomes a town hero after bringing victory in an extremely important game. He uses his fame for revenge on the team star for the previous mockeries.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1979-02-14
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Don Juan
Overview: Spain in the mid-seventeenth century. A series of bloody wars has ravaged the nation. Don Juan the nobleman and his valet, Sganarelle, roam the countryside on horseback, on the run and lost.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1998-04-28
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Dieumerci !
Overview: A 44 year old guy gets out of jail and wants to become an actor.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2016-03-09
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Dear Inspector
Overview: When Lise's car bumps Antoine's bike, they recognize each other from a brief fling 20 years before while at the Sorbonne. He's now a professor of Greek; she's loathe to tell him she's a police inspector. A call interrupts their first dinner date: a Deputy of the National Assembly has been murdered. She has a suspect, another Deputy, and must track him while deflecting Antoine's eye from her vocation. All roads in the inquiry lead to Christine Vallier, the dead Deputy's mistress, a beguiling 22-year-old whose mother ran the Assembly's snack bar. When more deputies die and Antoine learns Lise's identity, she must act quickly solve the crime and save her future.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1978-01-18
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Black Light
Overview: When a man's best friend is shot in cold blood by two corrupt policemen, he must track down the only eyewitnesses, who have deported to Mali.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1994-01-02
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Un enfant de trop
Overview: A young mother released on parole answers a small ad placed by a farmer looking for a wife.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1995-04-30
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The Crisis
Overview: Victor is a legal advisor who finds himself abandoned by his wife and fired the same day. He tries to seek comfort from different friends and family members, but everyone he meets is concerned with their own problems. His morale begins to falter when he realizes that no one cares about him.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1992-12-02
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The Unknown Soldier: Operation Dragoon
Overview: In August, 1944, during the landing of Provence, a french soldier, too young to wage war, meets a Senegalese Tirailleur in combat.
Genres: War Action Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2009-05-13
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Une femme nommée Marie
Overview: August 2011 pageant performance staged by Robert Hossein depicting St. Bernadette's encounter with Mary, the mother of Jesus. Production was filmed at the Basilica of Our Lady of the Rosary in Lourdes with an audience of 30,000 people.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2011-08-13
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The First Star
Overview: A married father of three, lives in Créteil doing odd jobs and spends his time at the local PMU bar. One day, to please his daughter, he promises a little too quick to take the whole family on vacation to ski. The only problem: if he breaks his promise, his wife will divorce him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2009-03-25
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On a volé ma VF
Overview: Documentary on the French dubbing industry. A journey through pop culture, the power of voice, artificial intelligence... French dubbing actors of stars like Brad Pitt, Tobey Maguire, Daniel Craig, Woopy Goldberg or Morgane Freeman, the most talented and known in France tell the story of French dubbing through the strike that immobilized the country's industry and the breaking point between art and business. They also testify to the importance that dubbing has had, its scope and the future it will face with the evolution of artificial intelligence.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2024-06-22
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The Worlds of Philip K. Dick
Overview: An immersion into the life and writings of the extraordinary American science fiction writer Philip K. Dick (1928-82), whose outstanding work predicted like no other the dystopian debacle toward which the chaotic world of the 21st century is inevitably heading.
Genres: Documentary History TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2016-03-02
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The Little Wheedlers
Overview: Sylvie, Corinne and Sophie all live in the same accommodation in Paris. The first sells clothes on the steps. The second works in a factory restaurant and the third is divorced, has a child and does odd jobs.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1977-06-24
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Out of It
Overview: The lawyer is visiting a prison to meet with a violent criminal who has been condemned to death. During the visit, things turn bad, there is a riot where prisoners escape and the criminal escapes taking a lawyer hostage.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1978-10-10
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Up to Me
Overview: Milan and Nola are twenty and have promised to love each other to the death. It is for that reason that they jump off a bridge one July evening. In the psychiatric ward where they were taken, they get to know an old schizophrenic who takes himself for the dancer Nijinsky and who will dance his last ballet with them, on the run in the streets of Paris. From bridge to bridge, from street to street, on the macadam and on the water of the Seine, Milan will pursue his quest and will try to understand the mysterious disappearance of Nola.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-02-01
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The ComDads
Overview: Unable to find her runaway son, a woman deceives two of her ex-lovers from her youth, a mild-mannered teacher and a tough journalist, that each is the real father in order to obtain their help.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1983-11-23
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The Twin
Overview: Matthias Duval is in love, but he can't choose between the two twin sisters Betty and Liz Kerner. To pick up the two sisters, he invents his own twin brother and will play both characters.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1984-10-10
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Les Innocents
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2006-11-22
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Elmyr de Hory, le faussaire du siècle
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2016-07-17
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To Each His Own Cinema
Overview: Commissioned to mark the 60th anniversary of the Cannes Film Festival, "To Each His Own Cinema" brought together 33 of the world's pre-eminent filmmakers to produce short pieces exploring the multifarious facets of cinema and their perspective on the state of their chosen artform in the early 21st century.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2007-10-31
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The Masked Avenger: Lagardere
Overview: France, 17th century, during the reign of Louis XIII. When a dear friend, the Duke of Nevers, is treacherously assassinated by a powerful relative, a skilled swordsman, the noble Henri de Lagardère, seeks his rightful vengeance as he tries to protect the innocent life of the duke's last heir.
Genres: Action Drama Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2003-12-25
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Foursome
Overview: Three collegues decide to go for a break to a sea spa hotel because they are overwhelmed with stress at work. There, they come to the realization that all their problems actually stem from one man. This man, who is making a fool of them works in the same company.. Now it's time for revenge!
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2008-01-01
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What the Day Owes the Night
Overview: Algeria, the 1930s. Younes is nine years old when he is put in his uncle's care in Oran. Rebaptized Jonas, he grows up among the Rio Salado youths, with whom he becomes friends. Emilie is one of the gang; everyone is in love with her. A great love story develops between Jonas and Emilie, which is soon unsettled by the conflicts troubling the country.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2012-09-12
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Little Tickles
Overview: Odette is a 8-yr-old girl who loves to dance and draw. Once she has become an adult, Odette realizes she was abused, and immerses herself body and soul in her career as a dancer while trying to deal with her past.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2018-11-14
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Le Diable de la République : 40 ans de Front national
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Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2011-11-30
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The Question
Overview: 1957. For several months, Henri Charlègue, the ex-director of the newspaper "Alger democratic", banned, has been living in hiding. Suspected of belonging to the FLN, he is actively sought by paratroopers.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1977-05-04
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The Unknown Soldier, The Children of the Resistance
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Genres: Drama War History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2011-05-12
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