Jean-Philippe Écoffey
Also Known As: Jean-Philippe Ecoffey
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland
Adult: No
Birthday: July 08, 1959
Age: 65 years old
Gender: Male
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I, Cesar
Overview: Cesar is a young schoolboy living in Paris with his family. Their life is ordinary, but Cesar wants more excitement (which he creates, in one instance, by claiming to his teachers that his father has been arrested). During the school holidays, Cesar and his friend Sarah decide to help their mutual friend, Morgan, find his father who supposedly lives in London. Each one tells their parents that they're staying with the other two, and together they sneak out to begin their search.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2003-04-09
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The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Overview: The true story of Elle France editor Jean-Dominique Bauby, who, in 1995 at the age of 43, suffered a stroke that paralyzed his entire body, except his left eye. Using that eye to blink out his memoir, Bauby eloquently described the aspects of his interior world, from the psychological torment of being trapped inside his body to his imagined stories from lands he'd only visited in his mind.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2007-05-23
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Snowboarder
Overview: Gaspard, un jeune snowboarder talentueux mais peu ambitieux, vit et travaille à l'Alpe d'Huez, dans le magasin de surf de Beshop, un ancien entraîneur professionnel qui l'héberge et l'entraîne en échange de quelques travaux. Mais le rêve de Gaspard, c'est de devenir snowboarder professionnel, tout comme Josh Atterssen, champion charismatique mais imprévisible. Sa vie bascule lorsque ce dernier lui propose de l'entraîner lui-même à Gstaad, en Suisse, et de rejoindre son team. Naïf, n'ayant pas assez confiance en lui, Gaspard accepte l'offre et quitte Beshop sans état d'âme pour retrouver Josh. Une fois à Gstaad, la vie lui semble soudain plus belle et facile. Mais le peu recommandable Josh a un tout autre projet pour lui...
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2003-04-02
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Trapped by Cops
Overview: The robberies are becoming more and more brazen, the methods more and more brutal. Because the perpetrator wears bizarre masks, there is no analyzable personal description. The homicide squad is assigned a bloody novice. The gangster slyly exploits this weakness. He sets his stunning girlfriend on him and blackmails him into complicity. An oil sheik's luxury yacht docks in the harbor. From all over the world, the head gamblers are expected with pockets full of money for a hot night of gambling. The planning for the super coup is ready. The best specialists are hired.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1985-10-10
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Dirty Pretty Things
Overview: An undocumented immigrant finds a human heart in one of the toilets of the west London hotel where he works with other undocumented immigrants.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-09-05
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The Woman from Rose Hill
Overview: Julie is a young woman from Rose Hill who arrives in rural Switzerland to marry her older pen-friend Marcel. She feels unhappy until she meets Jean, a younger man. However, his father disagrees.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1989-11-22
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Poker
Overview: Helene loves to play poker for big money in men's company. But one day she looses big time against bar manager Antonio. He grants her 24 hours to come up with the 50,000 Francs. She asks all of her friends, but nobody will help her. When she finally steals the money from her brother Stephane, she gets them into serious trouble -- she didn't know where he got it.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1988-01-13
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Moi, général de Gaulle
Overview: The first fiction film about de Gaulle. At the origin of the adventure, there is a script commissioned in 1942 from William Faulkner. It lacked the end of the story, and the view of the French of today. The destinies of the great and the small intersect, without meeting. Epics live on dreams as much as on reality.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1990-11-08
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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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Manika, the Girl Who Lived Twice
Overview: In this unusual feature, Manika is a girl born in a Catholic family in a south Indian fishing village is convinced that she has recently had a former life as a Brahman wife in Nepal. Her parish priest, Father Daniel is under orders to convince her otherwise, as reincarnation does not accord with official Catholic doctrine. Instead, he agrees to journey with her to the site of her dreams of a previous life. Once there, they discover that all is just as she had dreamed it, and her former husband has remarried despite promising not to. Her arrival on the scene does not disturb the man, but it really upsets his new wife, who departs with her baby. Manika decides that it helps no one for her to remain there in Nepal, and returns to her home in the south. However, all this has caused a genuine crisis of faith for the priest who, witnessing all this, has had to grapple with some irreconcilable issues.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1989-05-26
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Fiesta
Overview: A Jekyll-and-Hyde colonel toughens up a 17-year-old aristocrat for the Spanish Civil War.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1995-11-15
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Les Chiens
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2021-01-01
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Flyboys
Overview: The adventures of the Lafayette Escadrille, young Americans who volunteered for the French military before the U.S. entered World War I, and became the country's first fighter pilots.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama History Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-09-22
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My Man
Overview: In Lyon, where many are unemployed, Marie is a prostitute who loves her work: she's thoughtful and exuberant toward clients old and young, slim or flabby. One night, a homeless man sleeps in the foyer of her apartment house; she gives him a hot meal, then a place on the floor to sleep by her radiator, then she offers herself. She falls in love, giving him new life, clothes, a place to live. When he grouses that he must bar hop while she uses the flat for her work, she finds them a larger flat. He grows restless, seducing a manicurist and pressing her to prostitution. He's arrested for procuring, so Marie must decide what to do; he, too, must face the consequences of his choices.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1996-01-31
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Guardian of the Night
Overview: With an off-beat sense of humor to match its erratic central character, this original comedy-drama features Jean-Philippe Ecoffey as Yves, a young man who works as a cop at night. The catch is that Yves turns to petty crime during the day, partly to impress Aurore (Aurelle Doazan), a nurse he idolizes from afar. His criminal hobby seems hard to understand, since it's doubtful that they will really get him anywhere with Aurore; besides, she already has a boyfriend. Nevertheless, Yves starts out by robbing a post office and ends up trying to run over Aurore's boyfriend, an act which finally gets him into serious trouble.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1986-04-16
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Queen Margot
Overview: Paris, Kingdom of France, August 18, 1572. To avoid the outbreak of a religious war, the Catholic princess Marguerite de Valois, sister of the feeble King Charles IX, marries the Huguenot King Henry III of Navarre.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1994-05-13
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Hidden Diary
Overview: In the 1950s, Louise left her husband when their children were still little. She was never heard from again. Her daughter Martine stayed in the small seaside town, where she became a doctor. Martine's daughter, Audrey, a thirty-year-old independent woman, returns to visit her parents. By chance, she finds a notebook that belonged to her grandmother, a diary that may at last explain her departure. Will it reveal the things left unsaid, that have altered the relationships within the heart of the family ever since? In it, will Audrey find answers to the questions that she is asking herself about her own future?
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2009-10-07
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The Life Coach
Overview: Max Chêne is a life coach who helps to motivate everybody from professional athletes to government ministers to business executives. After his gambling debts get out of control and his wife throws him out, he is approached to take on a unique client.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2009-09-09
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An Impudent Girl
Overview: Charlotte Castang is a working-class 13-year-old girl, who lives in a drab, run-down neighbourhood, and is ready to become an adult. Her mother died giving birth to her, and she lives with her crass brother and a father whose attention is elsewhere. Her only friend is Lulu, a sick 10-year-old she regards as a pest. Charlotte is antisocial, bored and dreams of a better life. Her life improves when she meets Clara Bauman, a pianist prodigy.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1985-12-11
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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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The Apartment
Overview: Max is a former playboy who has decided to settle down by marrying his current love, Muriel. However, when Max catches a glimpse of the great lost love of his life, he becomes obsessed with rekindling their relationship.
Genres: Mystery Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1996-07-27
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L'affaire Kergalen
Overview: After the discovery of the bodies of two women raped and murdered, Lieutenant Sarlat, is assigned to the case. During your research you will find a family linked to black magic, and two gypsy women, Ana and her mother Marina, without having any connection that may be the key to the whole mystery. Sarlat will be responsible for discovering the connection between a serial murderer, and this dark and complex family.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2001-03-02
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Cold Showers
Overview: Mickael's family is struggling (they don't have enough money to pay for hot water) however his life is full with Judo and his girlfriend Venessa. Then Mickael makes a decision to open up his relationship to include Clement his rich-kid Judo partner, starting a chain of events.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2005-05-14
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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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L'Amour en marche
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1986-01-01
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The Good Life
Overview: Sylvain and Pierre have been running from the law ever since a custody battle with their mother pushed their father Yves into hiding ten years ago. But now that they’re older, the two brothers are road-weary and eager to take advantage of the perks of young adulthood. When the authorities discover their whereabouts, they are forced to move yet again and Pierre, the elder, disappears. Alone with his father on an island in the Loire River, Sylvain meets Gilda: his first girl, his first crush, and the first stop on his way to “the good life” – his own.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2014-04-09
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Legal Aid
Overview: At the age of forty, Antoine Lahoud is still defending petty criminals who are entitled only to legal aid. He still has a quixotic notion of his mission but, lately, his little income and his arduous working conditions have been eroding his idealism. So, when Henry Marsac, a leading (but seemingly corrupt), professional colleague, offers him to work on bigger and more lucrative cases, he ends up accepting. Little does he know what Marsac is up to...
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2009-05-06
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Moka
Overview: Diane Kramer is led by one obsession: to find the driver of the mocha color Mercedes which hit her son and devastated her life. With a few belongings, some money and a gun, she goes to Evian, where she's learned the driver lives.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2016-08-17
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Arletty: A Guilty Passion
Overview: Covers the love affair between French actress Arletty and a high-ranking German officer during WWII in occupied France.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2015-03-04
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Henry & June
Overview: While traveling in Paris, author Henry Miller and his wife, June, meet Anais Nin, and sexual sparks fly as Nin starts an affair with the openly bisexual June. When June is forced to return to the U.S., she gives Nin her blessing to sleep with her husband. Then, when June returns to France, an unexpected, and sometimes contentious, threesome forms.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-09-28
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Wolves in the Snow
Overview: Wolves in the Snow begins with the news that Antoine has been cuckolding Lucie for years. A violent marital argument ensues resulting in Antoine's death. After lying about Antoine's whereabouts, Lucie discovers his secret life of gangsters, money laundering and violence. Followed, threatened and badgered by the gangsters, Lucie becomes trapped by her deceit. The body of Antoine disappears, other corpses appear, and the money, very quickly, becomes only the pretext of an alarming turn of events, in which Lucie learns how to lie, to live, and perhaps also to like. Wolves in the Snow is an intense drama set against the backdrop of Montreal.
Genres: Drama Action Thriller Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2002-04-10
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No Man's Land
Overview: Madeleine, who runs a disco on the French-Swiss border, dreams of going to Paris to pursue a singing career. Her lover, Paul, who makes his living smuggling money, gold and goods across the border, plans to emigrate to Canada. Mali, a pretty young Algerian woman who lives in France and works in Switzerland, would like to be anywhere except where she is. Louis, born on a Swiss farm and trained as a clockmaker, would give anything to leave his mistress, Lucie, and move in with Mali.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1985-08-28
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Winter's Child
Overview: Feckless aspiring architect Stéphane leaves his pregnant girlfriend for theater designer Sabine; Sabine in turn vainly attempts to overcome her violent obsession with an actor in her theater company. A game of emotional chutes and ladders ensues.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1989-06-14
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In Your Hands
Overview: Stockholm Syndrome. Feelings arise between a young kidnapper and his victim, a woman surgeon. He seeks revenge for a medical accident that prevents him from living peacefully and decides to kidnapp the woman he holds responsible. When the latter manage to escape, she can't stop to meet her kidnapper again, for reasons of love and of vengeance.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2011-02-02
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Les Infortunes de la beauté
Overview: This romantic comedy from France explores the misadventures of several friends looking for love and trying to define beauty. Daphne is a lovely women who is nonetheless unsure about her looks, compounded by the fact that she's fallen in love with Vincent, who has a policy of only dating models. Daphne's best friend Celine comes up with an idea -- she'll get her pal Jacques to paint a nude portrait of Daphne. When Vincent sees the painting, he'll be more attracted to the woman who posed for it, leading him to her doorstep. But of course, it isn't quite that simple.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1999-08-11
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Nanou
Overview: A young British photography student travelling in France meets up with a free thinking, working-class French man, a dramatic change of pace from her staid British boyfriend. (TCM)
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-02-27
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Diary of My Mind
Overview: On February 27, 2009, pupil Benjamin Feller commits a crime which he has meticulously described beforehand in a diary entry. He goes to the post office to send the diary entry to his teacher before he shoots his parents and turns himself in to the police. His teacher Esther Fontanel tries to understand the events in retrospect. But as the journal’s addressee, she is increasingly targeted by the police herself.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2018-01-27
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The Possessed
Overview: Russia, 1870. A group of young anarchist revolutionaries set out to overthrow the Czarist regime through violence. Their attacks create a climate of psychosis and mutual distrust among the population, but in reality, both revolutionaries and repressors are being manipulated by a diabolical individual.
Genres: Drama History Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1988-02-24
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Women
Overview: Every Sunday, Mary, Alice and Joan, three long-time friends, find themselves at the pool to talk about their love affairs. Mary, who is a stockbroker, leads her love life with meetings. One night she is raped by Franck in a nightclub toilet. The young woman then discovers she is pregnant. Alice, a student dominated by an authoritarian father, she has difficult relationship with men. She meets a painter who wants to make her his model. Jeanne lives a dreary relationship with her husband and decides to work and earn a living through prostitution.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1995-01-25
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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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Rembrandt
Overview: This French-German-Dutch biopic on the life of 17th century Dutch master Rembrandt van Rijn is told in flashbacks from the point-of-view of the aged artist. Soon after establishing his career as a painter in Amsterdam, he marries the radiant Saskia. As he makes a name for himself, he can soon afford to buy a large house by teaching wealthy aristocrats how to paint. However, the couple's happiness is short-lived; Saskia dies soon after bearing their son, Titus. Crushed, van Rijn seeks comfort first in the arms of his maid Geertje and then with his second wife, Hendrickje, who gives birth to a daughter. In spite of his genius, van Rijn's determinedly eccentric behavior alienates the very members of the elite who were paying his bills. At one point, the artist's home and belongings, including many of his paintings, are seized and sold for humiliatingly low prices in a rigged auction.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1999-08-09
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The Beggars
Overview: This symbolic drama from director Benoit Jacques underscores the characters' human need for affection. Children steal lemons for the thrill, while women steal other women's men from them just to prove they can. Drug smuggling, clandestine love affairs, and two lovers involved with the production of Shakespeare's Othello carry on with their own off-stage tragedy.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1988-04-06
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Shooting Stars
Overview: A mobster is determined to find the drugs his mistress stole from him before running off with a young hustler.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1997-06-25
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Goupi-Mains rouges
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1993-10-13
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Kadogo, l'enfant soldat
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2002-10-01
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