Marie Gillain
Also Known As: マリー・ジラン
Biography: Revealed very young in the film "Mon père ce héros", the role earned her a nomination for the best upcoming actress césar. In 1995, her role in "L'Appât" is praised by public and critics, earning her the Golden Bear at Berlin the same year, along another nomination at the Césars for the best upcoming actress and the Romy-Schneider award in 1996. Also active in theater.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Liège, Belgium
Birthday: June 18, 1975
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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Coco Before Chanel
Overview: Several years after leaving the orphanage, to which her father never returned for her, Gabrielle Chanel finds herself working in a provincial bar. She's both a seamstress for the performers and a singer, earning the nickname Coco from the song she sings nightly with her sister. A liaison with Baron Balsan gives her an entree into French society and a chance to develop her gift for designing.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2009-04-22
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My Father the Hero
Overview: Veronique, living with her divorced mother, is going on holiday to Mauritius with her father. To impress a local boy, Benjamin, she manages to complicate the situation by making up stories about her father. She presents him as her lover, a mercenary and even a secret agent which gets her into trouble and then her father has to start playing along...
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1991-10-23
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Goliath
Overview: Patrick is a tenacious lawyer specializing in environmental law. France is a schoolteacher who becomes an activist after her husband develops cancer from exposure to a pesticide. Mathias is an ambitious lobbyist working for an international chemical corporation. The paths of these characters collide as the lives of thousands are affected by a tragic act that sparks a powerful movement while the corporation fights to prevent the truth from being revealed.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2022-03-09
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Not For, or Against (Quite the Contrary)
Overview: "Ni Pour, Ni Contre" tracks the fall of a young TV camerawoman, Caty, after she becomes involved with a group of petty criminals and their enigmatic leader, Jean. The gang lives hand-to-mouth until the day Jean plans a daring bank robbery. Although other gang members feel out of their league, Jean persuades them to take part and Caty finds herself in a hellish world of betrayal, violence and murder.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2003-03-05
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Female Agents
Overview: May 1944, a group of French servicewomen and resistance fighters are enlisted into the British Special Operations Executive commando group under the command of Louise Desfontaines and her brother Pierre. Their mission, to rescue a British army geologist caught reconnoitering the beaches at Normandy.
Genres: War History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2008-02-08
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On Guard
Overview: France, 17th century, during the reign of Louis XIII. When a dear friend, the Duke of Nevers, is treacherously assassinated by a powerful relative, a skilled swordsman, the noble Henri de Lagardère, seeks his rightful vengeance as he tries to protect the innocent life of the duke's last heir.
Genres: Adventure Action Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1997-12-03
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Have Mercy on Us All
Overview: In Paris, many citizens go to the precinct after the doors of their apartments have been sprayed with a 4 and the letters "clt". When a dweller is found mysteriously dead in his apartment, Detective Jean-Baptiste Adamsberg and his partner Danglard investigate...
Genres: Thriller Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2007-01-24
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Fresh Bait
Overview: With the ambition to start a boutique overseas but without the means to do so, Nathalie finds herself in a desperate situation, where she would do anything to acquire what she needs. Along with her boyfriend, Eric, and his friend Bruno, she concocts a plan where she seduces clueless men and accompanies them to their places, then allows Eric and Bruno to break in. But the three soon encounter trouble after one of their schemes ends in murder.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1995-03-08
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An Air So Pure
Overview: In the midst of WW I, a doctor and a lawyer team up to turn a ramshackle old mountain chateau into a sanatorium/health spa that caters to the afflicted from most every stratum of European society, most of whom show up with false hope in their hearts and plenty of equally false identities. Even the proprietors have a few deceptions, chief among them is the part of the resort where they provide shelter for dying and horribly maimed soldiers. Still the atmosphere of this high-class convalescent home is that of great gentility that thinly disguises the seaminess of the guests' secret activities. Though much of the film is a quirky comedy, tragedy comes creeping in when people begin dying of unnatural causes, and not even the pure mountain air can save the owners and the residents.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1997-09-03
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Marie
Overview: Pregnant girl in trouble teams up with a young boy to find the mother of the boy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1993-03-31
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Fragile(s)
Overview: Six characters cross paths in Paris and Lisbon.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-06-20
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The Very Very Big Company
Overview: Four friends decide to confront a multinational agrochemical company that is polluting their region. They have 30 days to gather evidence.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2008-11-05
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Last Harem
Overview: A story of the impossible love between one of the Sultan's concubines and one of his eunuchs in a harem at the end of the Ottoman Empire.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 1999-11-24
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Hell
Overview: Three sisters share a connection to a violent incident from their childhood reunite to for the chance to come to terms with their past.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2005-11-16
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Elective Affinities
Overview: After an architect (Fabrizio Bentivoglio) is invited to the home of his associate, the harmony of the place comes undone with the visitor's attraction to someone.
Genres: Romance Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1996-05-17
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The Pleasure Is All Mine
Overview: A beautiful, self-centered young woman's life turns upside down when she suddenly "loses her clitoris" (i.e. her ability to have an orgasm).
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2004-08-18
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It Had to be You
Overview: In this romantic comedy Thomas moves back in with his parents after his girlfriend throws him out. He runs into Florence, an old school friend, who invites him to dinner with her husband and two children.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2007-12-19
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The Key
Overview: Depuis peu Eric Vincent, trentenaire sans histoire, a un fort sentiment de malaise. Est-ce la peur d'avoir un enfant ou celle de voir brutalement resurgir le fantôme d'un père qu'il n'a jamais connu ? Un matin, un inconnu l'appelle pour lui proposer de récupérer les cendres de son père. D'abord réticent, il finit par accepter et se retrouve plongé au coeur d'une machination infernale.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2007-12-19
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Safe Conduct
Overview: The film is about the French film industry from 1942 to 1944 during the Nazi occupation. The film focuses on assistant director and resistance fighter Jean Devaivre and screenwriter Jean Aurenche. Aurenche is on the move so that he doesn't have to write anything collaborationist. Devaivre is in dangerous political activity. Devaivre also works for the German production company Continental where he is respected. On the other hand, Aurenche's scriptwriting doesn't help how he lives and he is a womanizer which causes him to procrastinate.
Genres: War Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2002-01-09
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All Our Desires
Overview: Claire and Stéphane are two Lyon-based judges who could hardly be more different. She is young and enthusiastic, committed to helping those unfortunates who find themselves in debt. He is older, wiser, but disillusioned with his work and his life. Under Claire’s influence, Stéphane discovers a new lease of life and at last finds a cause that is worth fighting for...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2011-11-09
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Magique
Overview: Tommy, a little boy who lives alone with his mother, sees a circus set up near his home. He sets off to discover this new world.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2008-10-22
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Re-belles
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2023-05-30
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Absolutely Fabulous
Overview: The wildly popular British television show Absolutely Fabulous gets a Francophonic makeover with this film version directed by Gabriel Aghion. In this go around, Josiane Balasko and Nathalie Baye play the incorrigible Eddie and Patsy, who leave no impulse unenacted and no lust unsated -- be it for sex or the latest in designer clothing. Waking up from a night of drunken debauchery, the two dip right into a feast of champagne and caviar, much to the irritation of Eddie's elegant mother and her resentful daughter. As Eddie stretches an appalling pair of leopard-print leotards (complete with matching shoes, purse, and hat) over her massive rear end, she and Patsy learn of a handsome young Rollerblading delivery boy who quickly becomes the object of their lust. This film was screened at the 2001 Toronto Film Festival.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2001-08-29
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Being Maria
Overview: A young, struggling actress lands her dream role in a film by an emerging Italian director, starring alongside an American superstar. What begins as her big breakthrough quickly turns into a living hell.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2024-06-19
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Barnie's Minor Annoyances
Overview: Barnie lives in Calais but works in London. Everyday, he takes the Eurostar to go to his office. Although he is married to Lucie, Barnie has two lovers in London: Margot, a young and fresh advertising executive, and Mark, a hot 35 years old auctioneer. Everything could work out fine like that, until Margot, Mark and Lucie separately offer Barnie the same birthday present: a return ticket to Venice on the Orient-Express, and on the same dates. What will Barnie do? Who will he choose to go with? After thinking that going with Lucie could actually save his marriage, problems are not over: Margot and Mark both show up at Barnie and Lucie's house, pretending to be a couple, and asking Barnie for some explanations. Which he obviously can't give...
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2001-02-21
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Je ne me laisserai plus faire
Overview: Anticipating eviction from her retirement home after the death of her son and sole provider, rebellious septuagenarian Émilie decides to take revenge on all those who have wronged her. During her journey of initiation, she cuts to the quick to right the wrongs and is joined by Linda, a cleaning lady with whom she has forged a close bond. She, too, has nothing left to lose and decides to wage war against those who have scorned her. Soon, these two companions are hunted down by a pair of policemen.
Genres: Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2024-11-22
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Leave It to Lucie!
Overview: Lucie makes her living selling bathing costumes on the beach at Marseilles. She would like that her ten-year long boyfriend, Lucien, becomes her best friend. But this requires truth. For Lucien, newly made secret agent who has to play a young idler, it is mission impossible. Even more so when a young american beauty will ask him to initiate her into sensual pleasures.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2000-12-27
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Une place pour Pierrot
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
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Big Kids
Overview: Yannick is a caregiver in a retirement home. Between permanent pressure and budget restrictions, he faces the lack of means with a contagious good mood. But when he is forced to share the dining room with a class of children, the situation becomes complicated. Their arrival, as well as that of his hostess, Aude, will shake up the daily life of everyone, especially the residents.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2023-04-26
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Landes
Overview: A young widow wants to carry on with her husband's work:managing a pine plantation where they extract resin;but most of all,she wants to have electricity installed in her valuable property.In this place,it seems that 1789 never happened and that time stood still:her workers,circa 1920,do not receive any salary and ,like the peasants in the middle ages,have to bring their production to their landlady. But her progressive ideas come up against men still remembering WW1 and against her bourgeois peers.Her foreman ,first bewildered ,is finally won over by his boss' resilience and strength of character.For her own good,the young heiress is too ahead of her time though.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2013-07-31
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La Voie de Laura
Overview: With the birth of her son, Laura is installed in the upper valley of Pyrenees, the Valley of the Eagles, somewhere between France and Spain, ready to rebuild their lives.
Genres: Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2005-11-21
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Un homme à la mer
Overview: Pierre has disappeared. His ex-wife Fanny, their daughter and Maria, "the other", go looking for him. There and at the Grand Hotel de Cabourg with a very young new conquest. Each in their own way will try to flush him out and allow him to come to terms with himself. In the midst of all these women, Pierre Flanche stiffens up, questions himself with his aggressive but aging charm. The finale in the mist of the beach is like the random movement of feelings.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1993-08-25
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Romy : 40 ans après, ultimes confidences
Overview: To honour the 40th anniversary of her death, multiple personalities share their feelings and thoughts about the life and career of the fabulous and bold actress Romy Schneider. Among them, Alain Delon, icon of French cinema and Romy's first great love, reads her the love letter which he wrote her forty years ago, the day after she passed away.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2022-05-24
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Héro(s)
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Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
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Valentin Valentin
Overview: In a small Parisian building, a diverse group of people crosses paths, likes and observes each other, without always seeing each other.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2015-01-07
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Once Upon a Time in Algeria
Overview: The childhood of the movie director Antoine Lisner, who left Algeria in 1962. In order to present his new movie, he comes back to Algiers with his son.
Genres: Comedy Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2023-11-15
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A Great Friend
Overview: Vincent is a famous successful entrepreneur. One day, a car breakdown on a mountain road temporarily interrupts his frantic lifestyle. Pierre, who lives apart from the modern world in the middle of sublime nature, comes to his aid and offers him his hospitality. The meeting between these two men, who are opposites will upset their respective beliefs and they will find themselves laughing. The question is...deep down, are they really each living the lives they want to live?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2023-02-22
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Alice
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2017-06-17
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The Dinner
Overview: An evening at an Italian restaurant. Hosted by tolerant and relaxed Flora, various parties of middle-class people come in -- large and small, young and old, regulars and tourists, married and single -- to dine, converse, argue, celebrate, make confessions; to overhear other people's discussions, to interrupt them, to sing, listen to music, and enjoy life. The camera, just like the people, moves constantly from table to table, into the kitchen and the back room to observe the staff's petty jealousies and frustrations -- until two hours later it's time for everybody to go home.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1998-09-03
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Mirage of Love
Overview: 1925, In a mining town in the middle of nowhere in Chile. The daughter of an anarchist hairdresser falls deeply in love with a trumpeter. They will have to fight dictatorship in order to save their love.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2016-03-26
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Vicky and Her Mystery
Overview: Stéphane decides to move to the beautiful mountains of Cantal in order to reconnect with his 8-year-old daughter, Victoria, who has been silent since her mother's disappearance. During a walk in the forest, a shepherd gives Victoria a puppy named "Mystery" who will gradually give her a taste for life. But very quickly, Stéphane discovers that the animal is in reality a wolf… Despite the warnings and the danger of this situation, he cannot bring himself to separate his daughter from this seemingly harmless ball of hair.
Genres: Adventure Family Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2021-12-15
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Top Dogs
Overview: Antoine and Christian, two long-estranged brothers from Normandy, couldn’t be more different from each other: while the former is happily married with two kids and a successful boat driver, the latter is a facetious globe-trotting hustler who likes to engage in bar fights. But when Antoine starts getting involved in sleazy activities, Christian flies to his rescue. In an unexpected bonding-adventure they take upon themselves to defend the family they thought they’d never be.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2023-01-11
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Sur la tête des enfants !
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2024-09-22
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