Stéphane Rideau
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Biography: Stéphane Rideau (born 25 July 1976) is a French actor born near Agen. Although intending to pursue a career in sports, he was discovered in 1992 at a rugby game and then auditioned for a role in the film Wild Reeds by André Téchiné. He was, at the time, sixteen years old. He would later on play the role of a gay teenager in Come Undone by director Sébastien Lifshitz. Rideau has a long acting experience that includes the films Loin, Le Ventre de Juliette, Le Clan, and Le Cadeau d'Élena. He currently lives with his girlfriend Celia and his daughter.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Agen, Lot-et-Garonne, France
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Birthday: July 25, 1976
Age: 48 years old
Gender: Male
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Never Twice
Overview: After much hesitation, a gigolo decides to take a shot of a radical remedy to save his failing virility.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1995-01-01
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First Snow
Overview: On Christmas Eve, Léa and Juliette, a couple, want to rob a supermarket that Juliette knows is empty of surveillance on this festive evening. But, as much for each of them as for Eric, the vigil who is there after all, nothing will happen as planned. Besides, shortly before leaving him alone, the store manager gave Eric a gun, just in case.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1999-10-12
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My New Friends
Overview: Police officer Lucie’s solitary daily life is disturbed by the arrival of a young couple and their little girl who move in next door. As she grows fond of them, she discovers that the father is an anti-police activist.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2024-07-10
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Wild Reeds
Overview: As the Algerian War draws to a close, a teenager with a girlfriend starts feeling homosexual urges for two of his classmates: a country boy, and a French-Algerian intellectual.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1994-06-01
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Full Speed
Overview: A brief extract of four kids' lives somewhere in France. Quentin, who won a writers contest and now pays more attention to his career as an author than to his friends, beautiful Julie, his girl-friend, much more mature than she looks, falling in love with Quentin's very best friend Jimmy, who is kind of stuck in his unability of self-expression and grown up under bad social circumstances. And there is the shy boy Samir, exiled from Algeria, who lost his "brother" and only friend some time ago. Samir heavily falls in love with Quentin, but he can't handle it...
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1996-09-25
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Come Undone
Overview: Story of two gorgeous, young French boys who begin a passionate relationship that boils over and threatens to destroy both their lives. Shy 18-year-old Mathieu is on summer vacation in the south of France. He spends his days lazily sunning himself at the beach, until he spies the handsome Cédric and falls in love.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2000-06-07
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Le chêne et le roseau
Overview: In 1962, in the South-West of France, three boarding school boarders experience their first stirrings of love and clash on ideological grounds. Their meeting with Maîté, the daughter of a communist teacher, will prove decisive.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1994-10-21
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Three Dancing Slaves
Overview: Annecy is no tourist destination for three working-class Algerian brothers and their father, in the months after their mother has died. Marc is deeply troubled: he tries to stiff drug dealers and then plots revenge. Christophe is released from jail, lands a job, and must overcome various temptations in order to keep it. Olivier, nearing 18, may be falling in love with Hicham...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2004-06-16
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Far Away
Overview: Serge is a long distance lorry driver between Morocco andEurope. In Tangier, he tries to reconcile with his former girlfriend, Sarah. She has refused to have anything to do with him since her mother’s death and intends to join her brother in Canada. Serge appeals to Sarah’s protector, a young Arab named Saïd, to allow him to meet up with Sarah, promising in return to smuggle Saïd into Europe...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2001-08-29
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Ça ne se refuse pas
Overview: Marthe, an aging queen of the night, roams the streets of a city haunted by the presence of an invisible murderer in search of money to pay a large gambling debt.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1998-08-12
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Sitcom
Overview: The adventures of an upper-class suburban family abruptly confronted with the younger brother's discovery of his homosexuality, the elder sister's suicide attempt and sadomasochist tendencies, and the intrusion of a very free-spirited maid and her husband. And it all started with the arrival in the family of an innocent looking rat.
Genres: Comedy Drama Thriller Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1998-05-27
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Free Men
Overview: In Paris during WWII, an Algerian immigrant is inspired to join the resistance by his unexpected friendship with a Jewish man. Based on not very known facts about the Muslim community in Paris during WWII, when the Paris Mosque and its dynamic leader played a pivotal role in supporting the resistance and rescuing Jews.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2011-09-28
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The Boss’s Daughter
Overview: 40-year-old foreman Vital is chosen by Alix (25) as a guinea pig in the anonymous study she is carrying out in her father's factory. The boss's daughter soon finds herself falling under the spell of this reserved, enigmatic worker as he begins to open up to her, revealing his dreams of another life.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2015-11-14
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Last cigarette
Overview: David buys a pack of cigarettes, smokes one, takes the metro and gives the rest of the pack to François, whom he meets on the platform, before walking away without further explanation.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2006-01-15
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The Sea Wall
Overview: The film centers on a young French widow and her two adolescent children as they attempt to carve out a meager life for themselves by farming rice fields alongside the ocean in French Indo-China in the 1930s. Their efforts are hampered each year by the presence of the sea, which invariably floods the fields with saltwater and wipes out the crops. In desperation, the mother realizes that their only hope lies in the construction of a sea wall to prevent continued flooding, but the mother must cut a swath through the local bureaucracy in an almost Sisyphean attempt to make this happen. Meanwhile, her obstinate daughter, Suzanne, draws the romantic obsessions of a well-to-do Chinese gentleman, Monsieur Jo. Though he could easily provide a way out, the possibility of a romantic relationship between Jo and Suzanne could just as easily fall prey to local racial prejudices that would damage or ruin the lives of both.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2009-01-07
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Mauvais Genre
Overview: The film's title is a pun, the double meaning referencing both the "wrong genre" and a person with distasteful motives. Insecure novelist Martial Bok promotes his new sexy novel La Fille de Dos ("Girl Observed From the Rear") with a round of book-signings and talk-shows. When beautiful hat designer Camille buys the book, Martial follows her and spies on her as she reads his book and removes her clothing. It's the beginning of his obsession and also an inspiration. After Martial's live-in girlfriend Lucie establishes contact with Camille for real, Martial is able to type out another sexy manuscript.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1997-05-27
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New Wave
Overview: Eric, a lonely young college student, meets Romain, a student who has been dispelled. Far from the family farm, Eric discovers the new wave musical movement with the help of Romain, and decides to edit a video clip for a song by Romain.
Genres: Action Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2008-09-19
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Brassens, la mauvaise réputation
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Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2011-10-19
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Le ventre de Juliette
Overview: The 20-year-old Juliette tries to come to terms with an unexpected pregnancy, despite a lack of support from the father of the child and from her mother.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2002-08-28
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Our Paradise
Overview: Vassili is an aged prostitute with killer instincts. He finds an unconscious young man in the Forest of Boulogne and takes him home. Now lovers and accomplices, the two men become a couple in prostitution and steal from their clients. And yet, menaces of retaliation leave the couple with no choice but to escape from Paris. The runaway begins...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2011-09-28
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Elena's Gift
Overview: After more than 40 years of absence, Socrates spends some days in Corsica, accompanied by his son Antoine, to see his cousins. But Antoine discovers his father's secret before his birthday party.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2004-07-07
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The Passengers
Overview: The new Saint Denis-Bobigny streetcar picks up and drops off commuters in an all-too-brief transit of their lives. Among the regular riders is a woman who is both spectator and guide – she introduces, comments on, ponders and catalyzes the sometimes vain, sometimes serious preoccupations of her fellow travelers, who, for the moment, are rushing headlong toward their destiny. The commuters and their observer have double lives. Once they step off this streetcar, the real-life dramas begin. Each has his or her style of living or dying…
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1999-06-02
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The Vets
Overview: In the heart of Morvan, Nico, the last vet in the area, struggles to save his patients, his clinic, and his family. When Michel, his partner and mentor, announces his retirement, Nico knows that the hard part is yet to come. "Don't worry, I've found the next generation" Except that ... The next generation is Alexandra, a 24-hour graduate, brilliant, misanthropic, and not at all willing to return to bury herself in the village of her childhood. Will Nico manage to make her stay?
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2019-11-04
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The Lost Patient
Overview: The 19 years old Thomas wakes up in a hospital after three years in a coma. He doesn't remember anything. The psychologist Anna tells him that his family has been murdered and that he is the only survivor of the massacre while his sister Laura is still missing.
Genres: Thriller Mystery TV Movie Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2022-11-25
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Psylo
Overview: Agnès have Nadine dangled a few days of hiking together in the Pyrenees. She takes her in fact to pick up hallucinogenic mushrooms on behalf of her boyfriend dealer but Nadine does not know.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2020-01-01
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To Live, To Die, To Live Again
Overview: Emma loves Sammy, who loves Cyril, who loves her back. What could have been a love story at the end of the last century is blown apart by the arrival of AIDS. Expecting the worst, each character's destiny takes an unexpected turn.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2024-09-25
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La merveilleuse odyssée de l'idiot Toboggan
Overview: This program of short films by Vincent Ravalec (Never twice, Le Masseur and Les Mots de l'amour) deals with themes such as desire and death through the journey of a group of characters.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2002-04-03
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Lokarri
Overview: Lokarri, which means in the tongue of the Basque peoples "the bond," is a story about what ties people to the land of their birth. Imanol is a 20-year-old jai alai player who is sick of the provincial town in which he has grown up, somewhere in France's Basque country. While he dreams of winning a lucrative contract with a professional jai alai team in the United States, he parties around town slowly wrecking his health and his reputation as a reliable player. When Imanol's life seems at its darkest moment, he meets two people who will change his outlook on the world. One of these is Ximista, a legendary jai alai player who went to play in the United States only to return a broken man. The other is Viviane, a Parisian sociology student who falls in love with Imanol and helps him to see the importance of his Basque heritage.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2003-09-15
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Les pygmées de Carlo
Overview: Carlo Ercole, a maestro of Italian cinema, asks his assistants to depart immediately for the Central African rainforest to find some Pygmies, "the incarnation of life", for the film he plans to shoot in Paris. Hardly cut out for such an adventure, Marc and Olivier are thrown into the maelstrom of a major African city. With the help of their beautiful guide, Désirée, they eventually make it into the equatorial rainforest, headed for a Pygmy Utopia.
Genres: Comedy Adventure TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2002-10-01
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Revivre
Overview: Sophie and Gina were not supposed to meet one day. For Sophie, who is a young philosophy teacher, has always had an easy life while Gina has been in dire straits since she lost her mother at an early age. But destiny has decided to draw them close to each other in spite of everything. All it takes to achieve this unexpected encounter is Sophie's decision to call on Antoine, her favorite student. Now Antoine lives next door to Gina.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1995-03-15
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Murder in the Cevennes
Overview: After spending 10 years in Paris becoming a talented chef, young Laura Fanton decides to return to her hometown in the mountainous Cevennes area of France to turn her family home and property into an hotel. She was raised by her grandfather after the death of her parents. Many bad rumors about her family circulated in the small village so her grandfather took her away at a young age. Upon her return she discovers the rumors still circulating and she gets the feeling she is not wanted there but can't get anyone to tell her why. Shortly after her return, the brutal murders of two of her closest friends occur, and she herself is terrorized. It's obvious someone wants her out of the way. As she investigates, she discovers some frightening truths.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2014-06-24
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Le Viol
Overview: 21 August 1974. In Marseille, two Belgian tourists, Nicole and Malia, are savagely attacked and raped by three men. Their attackers claim that the women consented and are allowed to remain free. Though their friends and family advise them to forget the ordeal, Nicole and Malia instead decide to fight. Helped by their lawyer, Gisèle Halimi, they request that the attackers be judged at the assize court. On 8 May 1978, after a long battle, they finally obtain justice. A trial which made history as until then rape had been considered simply as a misdemeanor, whereas now it became a crime.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2017-09-19
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Angel Face
Overview: 8-year-old Elli and her mother, Marlène, live in a small town by the French Riviera where they act out to relieve boredom and hide from social services. When Marlène caves in to yet another night of excess, she chooses to leave Elli behind for a man she just met. The young child must confront her mother's demons in order to get her back.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2018-05-23
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La vie à rebours
Overview: A sunny winter morning... Two brothers on a countryside path, go intown, as usual... That day, the younger brother has a meeting with his criminal friends. Stéphane, his older brother, isn’t aware of it. Fate will reunite them one last time... but too late. Stéphane, bearer of a terrible secret, is in for a life of suffering...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1995-05-01
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Murder Me, Monster
Overview: A rural police officer investigates the bizarre case of a headless woman's body. The prime suspect blames the crime on the appearance of a legendary monster.
Genres: Horror Drama Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2019-05-15
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Because You're Mine
Overview: Torn by the farewell letter of his boyfriend, Samuel tries to change his ideas in nature. The forest will bring him a strange and sensual consolation…
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2018-10-15
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Intimate Connection
Overview: In her new school, 15-year-old Chloé soon becomes a close friend of charismatic free spirit Luna. She also falls in love with Luna's ex-boyfriend Félix, a bad boy with a poisonous charm who's also a porn addict.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2019-10-09
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Les Sandales blanches
Overview: It all begins in the early 60s, in a slum just outside Paris inhabited by Algerian immigrants. Malika is 5, and her mum has just bought her a brand-new pair of sandals. They're so white that the little girl can't keep her eyes off them, and doesn't see the reversing truck. Then begin years of hospital, operations, suffering and struggle. Years far from her family, during which the little Muslim girl, in the hands of Catholic nurses and nuns, discovers music and singing at mass. From that point on, fighting the racism of French society as well as the enduring prejudices of her own community, Malika follows her dream and moves mountains to become the woman everyone will one day call "the diva of the ghetto".
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2021-01-25
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Meteors
Overview: France's rural wasteland. Mika and Dan have big dreams but little luck. Cornered after another blunder by Dan, they end up working for Tony, their best friend, who's now the king of construction. Mika and Dan need to find a way out of here, a way out of trouble – simply a way out.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2025-10-08
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Den of Thieves 2: Pantera
Overview: Big Nick is back on the hunt in Europe and closing in on Donnie, who is embroiled in the treacherous and unpredictable world of diamond thieves and the infamous Panther mafia, as they plot a massive heist of the world's largest diamond exchange.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2025-01-08
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Constance aux enfers
Overview: Except for Amine and Kimmy, the young couple of neighbors she meets regularly, visitors are rare in Constance Brunel's antique store. Loneliness is also her life. One night, Amine, in a panic, seeks help at her house: Kimmy has fallen badly when she slipped and she has killed herself. Thinking that the police will not believe this version because of his judicial past, Amine borrows Constance's car to take the corpse and make it disappear. In the days that follow, this shared secret brings Constance and Amine closer. But one morning, an anonymous letter accompanied by photos demands a ransom: someone in the building has seen everything, the blackmail begins.
Genres: TV Movie Thriller Drama Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2023-02-01
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Murder In Auvergne
Overview: A woman's body is found near a lake. The murderer seems to have copied an ancient local legend about the punishment of sinners who provoked the wrath of God. A complicated investigation for Captain Romagnat and Officer Lefaivre.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2017-01-01
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