Richard Sammel
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Biography: Born in Heidelberg; a curious and shy boy; found the key for his world through passion for music, dance and theater; Richard studied music and drama in Germany, acting and direction in France and method acting with Susan Strasberg and Francesca de Sapio in Italy. He first went on stage in 1981 at the local theater Hildesheim, then, from 1983 in France on independent stages, at national theaters and in the streets. In 1989 he moved to Italy and met Susan Strasberg: His cinema debut was in 1990 starring in "Il Piacere delle Carni" by Barbara Barni. In 1993, he moved to Paris and got the leading role in the film version of Brechts/Eislers" The Lindbergh's Flight". Since then he has worked on film, television, theater and dance productions all over Europe, in Canada, South Africa, USA, Macedonia, Morocco which brought him happiness and a lot of richly diversified creative and thrilling experiences Richard lives in Berlin and Paris since 2007. He speaks 5 languages fluently, travels a lot and loves to be challenged. - IMDb Mini Biography By: r sammel
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Heidelberg, Germany
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Birthday: October 13, 1960
Age: 64 years old
Gender: Male
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Email to Bill Gates
Overview: Young German boy whose father tells him that Microsoft billionaire Bill Gates can solve anything. His father dies and the little boy makes a trip to Seattle with his grandfather to find Bill Gates.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2007-12-04
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Rich Flu
Overview: A strange disease kills off some of the richest and most influential people on the planet. First it was the billionaires, then the multi-millionaires and so on progressively... Then it threatens to strike anyone with any sort of fortune. With the whole world panicking, people try to flood the market with assets the world no longer wants.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2024-12-12
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Wolfpack
Overview: Croatia 1993. A young girl is killed in strange circumstances by the military who are part of UN forces. The victim's parents can't obtain any further information about her death. The military base then becomes the object of an attack by two members of a wolfpack, determined to retrieve the body of one of their gang.
Genres: Horror Fantasy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2004-01-30
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Caccia alle mosche
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1993-12-01
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Ett enklare liv
Overview: A successful stockbroker gets in trouble and has to escape from Hamburg in Germany to Vänersborg in Sweden with his two children.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-09-26
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OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies
Overview: Set in 1955, French secret agent Hubert Bonisseur de La Bath/OSS 117 is sent to Cairo to investigate the disappearance of his best friend and fellow spy Jack Jefferson, only to stumble into a web of international intrigue.
Genres: Crime Action Adventure Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2006-04-19
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Inglourious Basterds
Overview: In Nazi-occupied France during World War II, a group of Jewish-American soldiers known as "The Basterds" are chosen specifically to spread fear throughout the Third Reich by scalping and brutally killing Nazis. The Basterds, lead by Lt. Aldo Raine soon cross paths with a French-Jewish teenage girl who runs a movie theater in Paris which is targeted by the soldiers.
Genres: Drama Thriller War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-08-02
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Safe Conduct
Overview: During the Nazi occupation of France as two filmmakers attempt to navigate their careers without compromising their ideals. Facing pressure from the Vichy government, assistant director Jean Devaivre uses his position at the German-controlled studio Continental Films as a cover for his resistance activities, while screenwriter Jean Aurenche uses his wits to keep from being involved in the creation of any collaborationist propaganda.
Genres: War Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2002-01-09
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Les Miserables
Overview: In France during World War II, a poor and illiterate man, Henri Fortin, is introduced to Victor Hugo's classic novel Les Misérables and begins to see parallels between the book and his own life.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1995-03-22
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Sniper: Reloaded
Overview: Marine Sgt. Brandon Beckett, son of the U.S. Marine Corps' deadliest sniper, Thomas Beckett, must turn to his father's former protégé (Billy Zane) to track down and kill a mysterious sniper before he kills his next target.
Genres: War Action Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-04-26
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Je t'aime, filme-moi !
Overview: This film is a tribute to love, a tribute to cinema. Our two main characters take us with them into the intimacy of "real people". We cross the roads of France with them, in their different vans and pick-up trucks transformed for the occasion into mini movie studios. Their concept: to film "declarations of love" and to deliver them directly by van to their recipients. And we discover, as we go along, that our duo and their own personal adventures are subtly intertwined with the people they film. This mix of genres offers several universes to the spectator in order to make him question himself about love.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2022-06-15
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Apartment in Athens
Overview: Athens, 1943. An apartment is requisitioned to provide accommodation for a German officer. In the apartment live the Helianos, a middle-aged couple who used to be well-off. He is an intellectual, moderate and patient. She is an anxious housewife. They have a ten-year old son who is filled with melodramatic revenge fantasies and a twelve-year old daughter. With the arrival of Captain Kalter everything is wiped out. The methodical, ascetic, cruel Kalter is a military god who inflicts terror. And the Helianos give in, submissive. They are now servants, with no identity other than their acquiescence...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2012-09-28
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At a Glance
Overview: Adrian is a talented young sculptor eager to assert himself in the art world. His first exhibition in the Capital catches Gloria's eye. She's an art student looking for "her" artist. Between the two something's born and soon she becomes Adrian's lover and muse, as well as his agent. But someone else also falls in love with Adrian's work: Lulli, an internationally-renowned art critic – and also Gloria's guardian and lover before Adrian's arrival.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2008-03-20
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The Third Half
Overview: Spitz is the German-Jewish coach of the football team Macedonia during World War II. Under his leadership, the team fights to become the champion of Bulgaria's National Football League
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: mk
Release Date: 2012-09-27
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3 Days to Kill
Overview: A dangerous international spy is determined to give up his high stakes life to finally build a closer relationship with his estranged wife and daughter. But first, he must complete one last mission - even if it means juggling the two toughest assignments yet: hunting down the world's most ruthless terrorist and looking after his teenage daughter for the first time in ten years, while his wife is out of town.
Genres: Action Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-02-14
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Company of Heroes
Overview: American soldiers lost behind enemy lines during the WWII make a horrific discovery: Hitler has a super bomb in development. Against all odds, they set out to find the scientist in charge of the program who is looking to defect.
Genres: Action Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-02-25
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Baden gegen Württemberg
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Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2021-11-25
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Feuer in der Nacht
Overview: A live broadcast TV-thriller by Kai Wessel.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2004-10-26
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Taxi
Overview: In Marseilles a skilled pizza delivery boy Daniel who drives a scooter finally has his dreams come true. He gets a taxi license. Caught by the police for a huge speed infraction, he will help Emilien, a loser inspector who can't drive, on the track of German bank robbers, so he doesn't lose his license and his dream job.
Genres: Action Comedy Crime Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1998-04-08
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MA 2412 - Die Staatsdiener
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2003-12-25
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Der zweite Mann
Overview: A young financial auditor, promoted to his first serious position, soon finds himself following in the fatal footsteps of his predecessor.
Genres: Thriller Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2013-10-25
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Avant-garde
Overview: 1984, Franco-German border. A Berlin gallery owner transports the flagship sculpture from his collection for a major exhibition. Faced with the object, the French customs officer hesitates: is it really a work of art?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2021-03-23
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The Horseman on the Roof
Overview: In a time of war and disease, a young officer gallantly tries to help a young woman find her husband.
Genres: Adventure Romance History Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1995-09-20
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Casino Royale
Overview: Le Chiffre, a banker to the world's terrorists, is scheduled to participate in a high-stakes poker game in Montenegro, where he intends to use his winnings to establish his financial grip on the terrorist market. M sends Bond—on his maiden mission as a 00 Agent—to attend this game and prevent Le Chiffre from winning. With the help of Vesper Lynd and Felix Leiter, Bond enters the most important poker game in his already dangerous career.
Genres: Adventure Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-11-14
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Fallen from the Sky
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2008-09-06
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Road 47
Overview: During World War II, looking up the Mountain, in Italy, a Brazilian Expeditionary Force - FEB - mines weeping platoon is hit by a panic-attack that sets them running aimlessly right in the middle of 'no man's land'. Desperate cold and hungry, the ill-prepared soldiers have to choose between facing military court or delve deeper into enemy lines. After a tense discussion, they decide to save their faces with the Brazilian Army by tackling a daring military objective: to disarm the most feared minefield in Italy. On their way there, they end meeting two others deserters; a remorseful Italian soldier trying to join the Partigianos and German officer who is just simply tired of war. with unexpected help of their ex-enemy, the soldiers are set to accomplish a mission that so far had been deemed impossible.
Genres: War History Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2014-08-01
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Spencer
Overview: During her Christmas holidays with the royal family at the Sandringham estate in Norfolk, England, Diana decides to leave her marriage to Prince Charles.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-11-04
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The Sect
Overview: A spree of grisly murders is perpetrated in Frankfurt by a group of Satan worshippers. A lonely schoolteacher almost runs over an elderly man and takes him in, unbeknown to her the man has plans for her – plans that involve a permanent future with the Satanic cult.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1991-03-01
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The Order of Time
Overview: A group of friends gathers for a birthday by the sea, only to face the looming possibility of the world ending within hours, transforming one fleeting, endless night into a life-altering experience.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2023-08-31
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Adieu Bohème
Overview: Once the show is over at Bastille Opera's 6th basement, Professor Turrel and his team open their shop. The service offers the opportunity for couples to say goodbye beautifully: recycling sets, performers and musicians. But tonight, we follow Thibaut's story: a man who couldn't say goodbye to his love.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2017-10-27
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Roxana's Hands
Overview: Roxana Orlac, a famous violinist, loses the use of her hands in a terrible lift accident. Her career as a virtuoso seems to be over until Professor Christansen offers her a transplant of two new hands. What he omits to tell her is that the two hands in question belonged to a woman who murdered her own children. When unexplained incidents happen, followed by a murder in Roxana's entourage, she starts to wonder whether her new hands may be committing crimes of which she's unaware. Police Capitain Almeida, in charge of the investigation, falls in love with Roxana, but she remains the prime suspect. Is it possible that Roxana's hands are urging Roxana to do terrible things she's not even conscious of? Or is she the victim of some terrible plot?
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2013-03-20
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Neneh Superstar
Overview: Born to dance, Neneh is a 12-year-old black girl who dreams of entering the Paris Opera Ballet School. Despite her enthusiasm, she will have to redouble her efforts to escape from her condition and be accepted by the director of the school, Marianne Bellage, the guarantor of traditions and the bearer of a secret that links her to the little ballerina.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2023-01-25
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French Dolls
Overview: Louise, Sam, Lili. Three women who don't know each other but whom will be forced to meet, get together, and compare themselves to each other by the wild will of evolution.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2014-11-26
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Piccolina bella
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
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Colt 45
Overview: Vincent Miles, a gunsmith and shooting instructor at the National Police, is an expert in combat shooting who stubbornly refuses to join a field brigade, a choice which their colleagues do not understand. When he meets Milo Cardena, a mysterious and skilled cop, his life changes in such way that he cannot ignore his true nature anymore.
Genres: Drama Thriller Action Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2014-08-06
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The Man Who Cried
Overview: A young refugee travels from Russia to America in search of her lost father and falls in love with a gypsy horseman.
Genres: Romance Drama Music War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-08-29
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Lady Blood
Overview: 15 years after giving birth to a bloodthirsty monster, Yanka is attempting to move on with her new life. But a series of inexplicable murders will lead a criminal investigation into her bloody past.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2008-07-18
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Beauty and the Beast
Overview: Forced to face the cruel side of life, a devastated, bankrupt merchant chances upon the enchanted castle of a hideous creature, the mere sight of it chills the bone to the marrow. There, a fate worse than death awaits the poor father-of-six, who, after plucking a sweet-scented rose from the repulsive master's verdant garden, must do the impossible: permit his compassionate daughter, Belle, to take his place and pay for the sins of her parent. Now, an impenetrable mystery shrouds the haunted mansion, and, as repugnance gradually turns into affection, only true love could break the spell.
Genres: Fantasy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2014-02-12
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The Berlin Project
Overview: An actor pursues his ex-mentor throughout Berlin in order to kill him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2011-11-09
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Covert Operation
Overview: A bounty hunter trapped in Asia, is promised his freedom in return for a rescue mission. On his search for the missing British secret service agent, he travels between the border of China and North Korea, where the mission takes a turn for the worst.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-11-11
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Phantom Pain
Overview: Marc is a passionate cyclist and urban slacker who avoids work and responsibility. Marc's life changes from one moment to the next when he suffers a life-changing accident. He can either wallow in self-pity or tackle the beast called life with the help of love and willpower.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2009-04-30
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Le Puits
Overview: When the Big war started, the 2nd of August 1914, Louis is one of those first mobilized. He has to leave Marie and his village in Corsica for the plains of the Marne where the fights rage. On the front, he is a stretcher-bearer and crosses the battlefield, at night, in search of the wounded. One day, while the trench is sorely lacking water, he is chosen to go to a well situated halfway between the French and German territories in what they called "no-man's-land". There, he finds himself in front of a German soldier who has also come too stock up.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2002-06-14
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L'Occupant
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Genres: Drama War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2008-06-30
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This Is Love
Overview: Set in Vietnam and Germany, This Is Love centers on Chris and the nine-year-old Jenjira on the run from the mafia. Together with his friend Holger, Chris bought the young Vietnamese girl's freedom from human traffickers – without actually being able to pay. Meanwhile, the female detective Maggie learns after 16 years why her husband up and left her without a word. These two worlds come together when Chris is accused of murder and Maggie is charged with interrogating him.....
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-09-20
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Life Is Beautiful
Overview: A touching story of an Italian book seller of Jewish ancestry who lives in his own little fairy tale. His creative and happy life would come to an abrupt halt when his entire family is deported to a concentration camp during World War II. While locked up he tries to convince his son that the whole thing is just a game.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1997-12-20
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The Confessions
Overview: A G8 meeting is being held at a luxury hotel on the German coast. The world's most powerful economists are gathered to enact important provisions that will deeply influence the world economy. One of the guests is a mysterious Italian monk, invited by Daniel Rochè, the director of the International Monetary Fund. He wants the monk to receive his confession, that night, in secret. The next morning, Rochè is found dead...
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2016-04-21
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Werner - Eiskalt!
Overview: Werner and Holgi are friends, but also lifelong rivals. Now Werner finally has enough of being the eternal second and is planning his revenge. With his special motorcycle, the 'Red Porsche Killer', he challenges Holgi and his car.
Genres: Comedy Animation Action
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2011-06-23
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La victoire des vaincus
Overview: In June 1940, in a village of Franche-Comté occupied by the Germans, five children decide to join the resistance in their own way, against the German invaders.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2002-05-04
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My Words, My Lies - My Love
Overview: David, a waiter, finds an unpublished manuscript in a dresser drawer. To impress a girl, he claims to be the author. When the novel becomes a best-seller, the real author introduces himself and begins to take over David's life.
Genres: Drama Romance Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2009-12-17
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Outside the Box
Overview: Frederick Schopner, a young management consultant, has been invited to participate in a special kind of team-building event. He and his colleagues will be chased across an outdoor obstacle course while being assessed on leadership qualities and their capacity for teamwork via video surveillance. Special highlight: the company has hired two over-the-hill actors to kidnap the consultants with unloaded weapons, keep them hostage, and to demand a high ransom from the company. A realistic role play with fun factor! But things don't go according to plan: the actors find the make-believe scenario so convincing that they decide to put the plan into action for real, using real weapons. Meanwhile, Human Resources manager Vanessa is observing what's happening via video surveillance and has to find a way to keep the hostage situation from escalating…
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2015-07-01
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The Conductor
Overview: United States, 1926: Dutch 24-year-old Willy Wolters has immigrated to the American continent with her parents as a child. She dreams of becoming a conductor, but this is an ambition that no one takes seriously. Unbeknownst to her, she'll also become Antonia Brico.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2018-10-25
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It Happened in Saint-Tropez
Overview: Zef’s stormy relationship with his brother Roni is further aggravated when Roni marries his daughter just as he is attending to his wife’s funeral. The two brothers have never got on with each other. One is faithful to his religion, the other lives only for the present. Between London, Paris, Saint-Tropez and New York, a series of confrontations and betrayals threatens to drive the family further apart, but out of this confusion will come a great love story, perhaps even two...
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2013-01-13
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Baumbacher Syndrome
Overview: Late-night talk show host Max Baumbacher turns world-famous after waking up with an unusually deep, almost magical voice.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2021-01-20
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The Delegation
Overview: In 1990, a European delegation comes to Tirana to monitor the reforms of the communist regime. A government official is sent on a mission to a faraway prison in order to bring an important dissident back to the capital.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sq
Release Date: 2018-10-15
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The Nest
Overview: Laborie is a high-flying officer in the French special forces. Her mission is to escort Abedin Nexhep, a godfather of the Albanian mafia. Charged with heading a wide-reaching prostitution network, this formidable criminal is due to stand trial before a European court. During the transfer, killers hired by Nexhep set up an ambush to free their boss but Laborie and her men manage to escape...
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2002-03-06
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Gate to Heaven
Overview: Robert Sternvall, a German journalist, returns to Artsakh in 2016 to cover the war which has been reignited after a 22-year ceasefire. In the result of his journalistic investigation, Robert meets Sophia, a young opera singer, who happens to be the daughter of missing photojournalist Edgar Martirosyan, whom Robert abandoned in captivity during the fall of the village of Talish in 1992. Robert and Sophia’s frequent rendezvouses ignite a passionate romance...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hy
Release Date: 2022-04-29
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Princesse Marie
Overview: The story of Napoleon Bonaparte's grandniece, the famous Princess Marie, her friendship and her work with Sigmund Freud.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2004-03-04
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Margrete: Queen of the North
Overview: 1402. Queen Margrete I has gathered the Nordic kingdoms in a union, ruled through her adopted son, Erik. But a conspiracy is in the making and Margrete finds herself in an impossible dilemma that could shatter her life's work: The Kalmar Union.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: da
Release Date: 2021-09-16
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Dicke Liebe
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Genres: TV Movie Romance Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2008-11-22
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Death in Venice: The Sinking Palazzo
Overview: Short behind the scenes making-of documentary about the filming of the sinking house palazzo and the Venetian piazza chase from the James Bond movie Casino Royale (2006).
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-01-01
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Tour de Force
Overview: François decides to participate in the Tour de France alone, inspiring a wave of media enthusiasm, much to the chagrin of the Tour's pros.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2013-06-12
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L'Automne
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Original Language: fr
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Anna Oz
Overview: This taut psychological chiller tells the twisted story of Anna, a woman living in Paris, whose dreams of her Venetian counterpart, a secretive young woman who lives in a fine palace with her brother and an enigmatic older man, become frighteningly real. Anna's world begins coming apart after she is picked up by the police for witnessing an awful crime she cannot remember seeing. When she realizes that her dream alter-ego is trying to kill her, only her lover Marc's calming and supportive influence can save her from madness.
Genres: Thriller Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1996-10-02
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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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