Jean-François Gallotte
Also Known As: Pascal, Jean-François Gallote, Jean-Francois Gallotte, Jean-François Galotte, J-F Gallotte, J-François Gallotte
Biography: Jean-François Gallotte est un acteur français né le 18 novembre 1953 à Paris (France). Il débute en pratiquant le théâtre de rue et travaille avec plusieurs troupes (le Théâtre Imaginaire, la Compagnie de la Jacquerie et leThéâtre du Soleil d'Ariane Mnouchkine) puis se tourne vers la réalisation à la fin des années 1970. Il a également été animateur sur la radio Carbone 14, sous le pseudonyme de David Grossexe. Depuis, il tourne fréquemment pour la télévision et le grand écran et se produit sur les scènes des théâtres parisiens.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Paris, France
Adult: No
Birthday: November 18, 1953
Age: 71 years old
Gender: Male
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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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The Octopus
Overview: Gabriel, dit Le Poulpe (The Octopus) is a laid-back private investigator who works on cases for his own pleasure. He is drawn to the fictional Loire Valley port of Angerneau, with his lover Clotilde who has been summoned by the police concerning the defacement of a deceased relative's grave. Since Angernau is her home town, she wants to leave it as soon as possible to avoid old acquaintances, but Gabriel stumbles on intriguing events concerning the cargo of a ship in port.
Genres: Thriller Comedy Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1998-10-07
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Late August, Early September
Overview: A book editor juggles relationships with two women while coping with his best friend's terminal illness.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1999-02-10
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Baby Blood
Overview: A cruel circus owner beats and abuses his pregnant wife. One day the circus receives a leopard newly captured in Africa, but the animal soon dies. However, an evil creature that was inside the leopard bursts out of the animal's body, burrows into the wife's body and takes over her fetus. It soon starts demanding blood, and the woman goes searching for victims for her new "baby."
Genres: Horror
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1990-01-24
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Les Parasites
Overview: Oulage has it all planned: New Year's eve, at the stroke of midnight, he'll finally kiss Brigitte, the girl he's madly in love with. That'll be the moment, because Brigitte is having a costume party. Oulage has it all planned—except for the fact that Brigitte has also invited a gang of truly parasitical friends: an old girl friend who never leaves Brigitte's side, a manic-depressive police officer, a paranoid psychopath, a cannabis-addict suffering withdrawal pains, a stunning Cuban woman on the prowl for immigration papers, and many others who do everything to ruin Oulage's life.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1999-01-20
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The New Eve
Overview: Camille is an emancipated 30-something woman who has no desire to settle down and have a family, preferring to coast along on a succession of ephemeral relationships and one-night stands. However, her lifestyle fails to satisfy her fully, and in a moment of depression she runs into a complete stranger, Alexis, whom she instantly falls in love with. Alexis, alas, is married, with two children, and works for the Socialist Party. None of this is going to deter Camille though…
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1999-01-27
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The Dope
Overview: Alphonse Brown, who firmly believes he is the bastard son of James Brown, meets up with his best friend Scotch after Brown gets out of jail. On their way to Paris to begin careers as recording artists, the pair stumbles across a potent type of marijuana that was engineered by the Nazis. Their decision to begin selling the stuff leads to a variety of people chasing after them.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2003-02-05
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Zonzon
Overview: In a French prison, three men are coming to terms with the emotional and physical torment which their incarceration brings them. Arnaud is serving a six-month sentence for drug smuggling; he protests his innocence and will do anything to secure an early release. Francky is a hardened criminal who has all but lost his wife and family and who seeks comfort in self-inflicted abuse. Kader is in prison for theft; he is the most philosophical of the three men, he is growing accustomed to prison life and seems to prefer it to the world outside.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1998-08-26
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Super Z
Overview: The adventures of a family of genetically modified super-zombies.
Genres: Horror Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2022-10-31
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All About Love
Overview: Maria is a bright and attractive but not especially responsible young woman who is used to having things go her way in life. Out of school and with no clear career path, Maria ends up taking a job putting together cushions for chairs. But after a single day on the job she quits, claiming the work hurts her hands and she'd rather start her own restaurant. As Maria plots her next move, she impulsively swipes a piece of lingerie from a store, then tries to lie her way out of the situation when she's caught. But Maria finds that words can't get her out of this bind, and soon she's in jail and dealing with much deeper trouble than she ever imagined possible.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2001-04-11
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Quand tu descendras du ciel
Overview: A mayor wants to get rid of homeless people who blacken his Christmas.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2003-03-19
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Desire
Overview: In a social context deteriorated by a countrywide economic crisis, the life of several people will be turned upside down after they meet Cécile, a character who symbolizes desire.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2011-10-06
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Marry Me
Overview: Oriane and Hadrian's couple is going through a crisis. Determined to save their marriage, Oriane visits a Gypsy fortune teller who foresees a dark future. But Oriane won't hear of anything but a happy ending and the psychic is forced to read another future which, unfortunately, also happens to end bitterly. Will the third reading satisfy the young woman?
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2000-01-19
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Corridor
Overview: A potential house-buyer finds himself fighting for his life when the property turns out to be a death trap.
Genres: Comedy Horror Thriller Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1989-05-30
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Time Demon
Overview: Hitler is still alive, protected by a sect of nazi soldiers and sexy satanic women. He plans on invading the world again but… he has become old and senile. To regain his power, he must find a magical talisman that grants eternal life. Jack Gomez, a failed and megalomaniac actor, owns the coveted object. Will this heir to a brave conquistador manage to stop the evil plans of the Führer?
Genres: Action Science Fiction
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1996-01-21
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Fard
Overview: In the near future, the world seems to function in an efficient and controlled way...
Genres: Animation
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2011-10-05
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Un petit air de fête
Overview: Jerome leaves his home to seek a job in the city. He finds a job at the town hall and works with Lucien. First they are responsible for the decorations of the city for Christmas. But their next mission will prove very different.
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1999-01-01
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Gomez vs Tavarès
Overview: Two crooked lawmen (Stomy Bugsy, Titoff) search for a precious stone to collect an inheritance.
Genres: Action Comedy Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2007-06-13
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By Mutual Agreement
Overview: In the darkness of their living room Guillaume and Caroline are fighting for their common goods, splitting them with a dice game. All their goods... Including their ultimate one: their"flesh and blood". That’s precisely when they realise that the birth of their son is the reason why their relationship is broken. So they decide to fix it...
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2014-10-07
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Patchwork Family
Overview: Christian is a divorced father who can only see his young daughter Vanessa every other weekend. When he meets the single mother Christine and decides to participate in a summer TV show, his whole life is turned upside down.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2014-07-09
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Would I Lie to You? 3
Overview: Eddie, Dov, Yvan and the others ... Our warm friends have migrated from the moribund Sentier to the flourishing suburb of Aubervilliers ... Where the old Jewish entrepreneurs left the ground to young courageous and dynamic Chinese wholesalers ... The little band is as close to each other as in previous episodes, and life goes on at the mercy of small family events and business. Dov still seems frivolous, enterprising Eddie, chilled Yvan, casual Karine, resolute Sandra, naive Chochana, irresponsible Serge and mythomaniac. As for Patrick, he is in love and the happy elected is far from easy to access. Everything would be fine until a bad wind brings its share of adversity seriously compromising the cohesion of the group. Will they succumb under the storm to the turmoil, or, once again, by mutual aid, cunning and skill, will they triumph over the crisis with panache?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2012-01-31
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À minuit, ici tout s'arrête
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Genres: Fantasy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2011-12-31
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La Lumière du phare
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2013-11-16
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Victor
Overview: When a family wins a contest to adopt Victor, an 85-year-old man, the magazine intern who hatched the idea must undo what has been done.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2009-10-07
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Espace détente
Overview: In the middle of the Veule, imaginary French province, the Geugène Electro Stim, a medium-sized company, which survives thanks to the manufacture and sale of the C14, an old but inexpensive electrical stimulation device.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2005-02-02
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Elsewhere
Overview: Patrick Perrin is a dealer in a small seaside casino. His dream? To leave. To leave everything for an unknown destination. But a trip such as this doesn't happen overnight. To start with, Patrick decides to buy a suitcase. A nice red one with wheels that he immediately puts at the foot of his bed. All that's left to do is to fill it up and choose a destination.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2010-12-08
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Girlfriends
Overview: Apprentice hairdresser Solange is a whiz at teasing locks and cutting hair but knows little about the act of sexual congress -- but she wants to know more. She hails from a small working class town close to Toulouse where she lives with her comely mother, who grudgingly works as a babysitter, and her father, who loves herding ostriches. Her best friend in beauty school is an African immigrant lass named Gary who dreads being returned to her native country for an arranged marriage. Gary offers Solange advice in her quest. Though there is a guy Solange fancies at her vocational school, she wants to know the lay of the land, so to speak, before she gets intimate with him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2000-08-30
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Adrenaline
Overview: "Adrénaline" proposes a string of short surrealist films presenting at various levels an interesting mix of mild gore, cynical humor and absurd surrealism.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1990-01-17
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Roboflash Warrior
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1994-09-03
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Grand ciel
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2022-07-18
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La Finale
Overview: A low-income housing estate in the south of France, at the time of the soccer World Cup. The daughter of the leader of an extreme right-wing party sets out to discover the world of the fans.
Genres: Drama Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1999-04-28
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My Life in Pink
Overview: Ludovic is waiting for a miracle. With six-year-old certainty, she believes she was meant to be a little girl -- and that the mistake will soon be corrected. But where she expects the miraculous, Ludo finds only rejection, isolation and guilt -- as the intense reactions of family, friends, and neighbors strip away every innocent lace and bauble. As suburban prejudices close around them, family loves and loyalties are tested in the ever-escalating dramatic turns of Alain Berliner's critically acclaimed first feature. Winner of the Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film and a favorite at festivals around the world, this unique film experience delivers magic of the rarest sort through a story of difference, rejection, and childlike faith in miracles.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1997-05-28
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Visiblement je vous aime
Overview: A misanthropic Parisian street punk learns some difficult lessons after being captured for assaulting and robbing a man in this interesting French drama. This has not been the first time young Denis Lavant has been in trouble, and this time the judge sentences him to the Coral, an experimental open community founded in 1975 by Claude Sigala, in the wilderness of the Camargue. There he encounters a group of inmates just as neurotic and messed up as he is.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1995-07-15
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Je, François Villon, voleur, assassin, poète
Overview: Separated at the birth of his mother who has only time to entrust to a member of his family, Guillaume de Villon, when he should have been killed, François will as well go to the ill-known taverns of the Latin Quarter that the Court of the Duke of Orleans, passing by the benches of the university. This marvelous poet at the same time as a scoundrel of morality will have a life where fights, robberies, imprisonments and final banishment will be linked. Leaving Paris, Villon will disappear.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2010-02-03
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Les Fans
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1998-01-01
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Christ(Off)
Overview: At 33 years old, and after numerous failed attempt to make it as a musician, Chris still lives with his mother. One day he crosses paths with a young missionary in need of a guitarist for his new religious band, he recruits Chris and disguises him as Father Christophe.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2018-07-11
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Grève party
Overview: While France is on strike, Jean, a Parisian bookseller, opens his shop. A former trade unionist, he has in fact decided not to take part in the movement. However, a phone call from his friend René awakens his enthusiasm.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1998-03-04
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Carbone 14, le film
Overview: Supernana, David Grossexe, Simone Cuisse d'Acier, Jean-Yves Lafesse occupy during three nights of summer 82, with their guests, Radio Carbone locals, one of those numerous « free radio » created in France at this period.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1983-05-11
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Psy-Show
Overview: "Psy-Show" concerns a man approaching middle age, a fragile soul who becomes the plaything of his psychoanalyst who surreptitiously re-positions his quiet motorized chair as his patient lies on the couch.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1999-01-01
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Ducoboo
Overview: Ducoboo is a very inventive dunce and joker, he is very resourceful at finding new ways to copy from his neighbor, to cheat or to defy the teacher's authority.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2011-06-22
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Mind Your Own Business
Overview: Dumped by Juliette, Marcel decides to commit suicide by jumping off a bridge. Philippe, a passer-by, stops him and proposes him a deal. Marcel finds himself obliged to follow his saviour to his huge house, to serve him and give help in many ways... Will the saved rescue the saviour?
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2015-01-31
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Red Knight
Overview: 11th Century AD. In a world that burns with the heat of battle, a world torn apart by Crusades, one knight traverses the desolate wastes laid bare by bloody conflict. Prepare yourself for a descent into a brutal hell, where armies clash and blood flows like rivers, and where a sharp blade is the only means of defense against an army of evil.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2003-05-17
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1999 Madeleine
Overview: 1999 Madeleine is the first step in an ambitious project by the French filmmaker Laurent Bouhnik to make one film per year between 1999-2009, recounting the turn of the century in an interweaving narrative pattern. Episode one is about Madeline, a lonely woman obsessed by religion and cleanliness. Her solitary existence leads her to place an advertisement for a man willing to share his life with a 'single, working 35-year-old.' She is a woman of our times who is caught between the paradoxes of modern life and individual needs for communication. The world offers her opportunities to satisfy material needs but, unfortunately, this is to the detriment of her spiritual needs.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1999-01-01
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Thick Skinned
Overview: Two brothers set fire to a barn while drunk, inadvertently causing the death of a sleeping wanderer. One of them takes all the blame for the incident and spends ten years in prison.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1989-05-31
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Recrue d'essence
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2007-01-01
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Le monde est petit
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Genres: Comedy TV Movie Family
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2008-03-03
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Wacko
Overview: An anthology movie comprising four weird stories. Like the Twilight Zone movie but strictly played for laughs. There’s a bit of everything, car explosions, french debauchery, serial-killers, crazy broads, silly humor and naughty language…
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1994-06-08
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Vertiges de l'amour
Overview: A man has pre-wedding jitters on the eve before his marriage. His thoughts switch between sweet dreams and nightmares of a life with another woman.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2001-12-19
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Bankable
Overview: The wealthy Deville family loses their fortune at the same time the unassuming Ricci family suddenly become internet millionaires; things look bleak until their mutual banker suggests Mr. Deville goes to work for the Riccis!
Genres: Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2012-05-04
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