Olivier Cruveiller
Also Known As: Olivier Cruvelier
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Créteil, Val-de-Marne, France
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Birthday: September 06, 1959
Age: 65 years old
Gender: Male
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La Vie en Rose
Overview: From the mean streets of the Belleville district of Paris to the dazzling limelight of New York's most famous concert halls, Edith Piaf's life was a constant battle to sing and survive, to live and love. Raised in her grandmother's brothel, Piaf was discovered in 1935 by nightclub owner Louis Leplee, who persuaded her to sing despite her extreme nervousness. Piaf became one of France's immortal icons, her voice one of the indelible signatures of the 20th century.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2007-02-14
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I've Loved You So Long
Overview: A woman struggles to interact with her family and find her place in society after spending fifteen years in prison.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2008-03-19
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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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Change My Life
Overview: Slightly over-the-hill actress Nina has a fainting spell in a Paris park and Sami, an Algerian man, out for a run comes to her aid. She seeks him out afterwards to return some property and discovers he works at night as a female prostitute. Nina is drawn to him and a friendship develops as he attempts to kick his drug habit and she tries to revive her acting career that sidelined when she moved to Russia for years.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2001-11-28
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Very Well, Thank You
Overview: The tough lives of two ordinary individuals: Alex, an accountant and his wife Béatrice, a taxi driver.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2007-04-25
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The Adversary
Overview: Based on the 2000 book of the same name by Emmanuel Carrère, it is inspired by the real-life story of Jean-Claude Romand. L'Adversaire's protagonist Jean-Marc Faure (Auteuil) pursues an imaginary career as a doctor of medicine in a plot more closely based on Romand's life and Carrère's book than was Laurent Cantet's 2001 film L'Emploi du Temps. The film was nominated for a Palme d'Or at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival.
Genres: Mystery Drama Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2002-08-28
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Ouch
Overview: A chance meeting with Aie, a waitress with a strange name, will drive a 50 year old neurotic man, Robert, crazy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2000-09-06
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The Story of Marie and Julien
Overview: Julien is a clockmaker with destructive impulses who decides to blackmail Madame X, a rich, attractive woman who traffics in stolen antiques. What he doesn’t know is that she has an even more dangerous secret that leads him to Marie, with whom he had fallen in love a year earlier.
Genres: Drama Romance Mystery Fantasy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2003-09-10
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Le Bruit des trousseaux
Overview: Alexis Pasquier, a young French teacher, begins his first day of classes at the Nancy prison. There he meets Léa, a young woman with whom he falls madly in love. Two worlds open up to him: true love and the prison environment. He will never be the same anymore.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2021-11-08
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Wuthering Heights
Overview: In this adaptation of Wuthering Heights set in the south of France in the 1930s, Guillaume wars with his sister Catherine over her affections for their farmhand Roch, of whom he is jealous. A romantic choice, destined for tragic results.
Genres: Mystery Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1985-10-09
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Bandits
Overview: On the day Jean Gabin dies, a kidnaper who also takes a fortune in jewels heisted from Cartiers murders Simon Verini's wife. (Simon was fencing the jewels for a youthful gang who robbed Cartiers; he suspects them of the murder.) He's framed for the theft and spends ten years in prison, writing to his daughter, Marie-Sophie, who's 11 when he's sent away. Released, he reconnects to Marie-Sophie and to the young thieves, seeks revenge, and is quickly arrested again. She doesn't know what to make of her father, retreats to her Swiss fiancé, and is flummoxed when one of the young thieves falls for her. Is resolution possible when crime cuts across families and romance?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1987-06-03
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Stillwater
Overview: Bill Baker, an American oil-rig roughneck from Oklahoma, travels to Marseille to visit his estranged daughter, Allison, who is in prison for a murder she claims she did not commit. Confronted with language barriers, cultural differences, and a complicated legal system, Bill builds a new life for himself in France as he makes it his personal mission to exonerate his daughter.
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-07-29
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Agosto
Overview: Summer of 1964. The professor Carlos and the couple Dário and Alda spend time together in the beach during vacations. Away from the colonial war, everything seems lost in time.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1988-05-05
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La rupture
Overview: Upon the sudden death of President Georges Pompidou, the French right is taken aback. Who will succeed him? It is finally Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, aged 48, elected with the support of Jacques Chirac, who is then appointed Prime Minister. Their alliance seems strong, but it will quickly crack.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2013-11-26
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The Tiger and The President
Overview: 1920. Georges Clémenceau just lost the french presidential elections to the unknown Paul Deschanel, an idealistic who wants to change the country. But, one day, Deschanel falls from a train and disappear. At daybreak, France is looking for its president, a great chance for the « Tiger » Georges Clémenceau.
Genres: Comedy History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2022-09-07
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LOL (Laughing Out Loud)
Overview: Lola is a striking teenaged girl who is on the cusp of adulthood and longs to rush into the adult world of independence, freedom and sexual exploits, but is tenaciously held back by her mother.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2009-02-04
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Caprice
Overview: An average guy meets an actress who is more beautiful than he could ever imagine. But then a pesky girl materializes to make his life a living hell. His perfect girlfriend now thinks that he is involved with this Caprice.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2015-04-22
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How Wang-Fo Was Saved
Overview: Wang Fo, the greatest master of medieval China, aided by his assistant who has given up everything to follow him, desperately seeks aesthetic perfection. A day comes when he thinks he has achieved it. But his genius arouses both the curiosity and the jealousy of the Emperor. Wang Fo will be able to escape the Emperor's vindictiveness only by going to the limit of his talents.
Genres: Drama Animation Fantasy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1987-01-01
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Delicacy
Overview: A French woman mourning over the death of her husband three years prior is courted by a Swedish co-worker.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2011-12-20
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Not on My Watch
Overview: A single mother gets entangled in a web of lies to protect her sons.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2017-03-29
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Josephine
Overview: Josephine doesn't like her job and keeps on having relationships without a future. Her sister and parents keep pushing her to find a good husband. To shut them up, she creates a handsome Brazilian millionaire but her little white lie has a flip side - she loses everything to find the love of her life.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2013-06-19
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Carlos
Overview: The story of Venezuelan revolutionary, Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, who founded a worldwide terrorist organization and raided the OPEC headquarters in 1975 before being caught by the French police.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-07-07
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Joan the Maid I: The Battles
Overview: Convinced that only she can lead France to victory against the invading English, Jeanne d'Arc leaves her childhood home to plead Charles, heir to the French throne, to allow her to guide his troops on the battlefield.
Genres: History Drama War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1994-02-09
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Gandahar
Overview: On the planet Gandahar where peace reigns and poverty is unknown, this utopian lifestyle is upset by reports of people at the outlying frontiers being turned to stone. Sylvain is sent to investigate this mysterious threat.
Genres: Animation Science Fiction Fantasy Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1987-12-11
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Jaune revolver
Overview: Angele kills the bank robber who has taken her as hostage and deposits the money. The police and a privat eye of the insurance compnay are suspicious. Leslie, the girlfriend of the robber, attracts Angele and they start a journey to the mountains. Do they become real friends?
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1988-04-06
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Captain Conan
Overview: The last days of World War I, Eastern front. Captain Conan, a lone wolf, a true warrior, leads a band of ruthless French fighters who love hand-to-hand combat; they are not fit for peacetime, they only feel really alive in the chaos of the battlefield.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1996-10-16
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