Rachida Brakni
Also Known As: رشيدة براكني
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Paris, France
Birthday: February 15, 1977
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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God's Offices
Overview: A realist dramedy about dedicated social workers who devote their long shifts to helping pregnant women.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2008-11-05
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Neuilly Yo Mama!
Overview: Samy moves from the underdeveloped crime-ridden French suburb to the riches of Neuilly.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2009-08-12
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Skate Or Die
Overview: Jérôme and Benjamin are two young skateboarders whose carefree existence is turned upside down when they witness the murder of a drug dealer. Rumbled by the assassins they manage to escape. Taking refuge in a police station they then discover that the criminals are actually the crooked cops. Then begins a relentless chase through the streets of Paris as Jérôme and Benjamin attempt to outwit their unscrupulous pursuers... Utilising real Paris locations and two of France's top street skaters, Skate Or Die is an adrenalin rush thriller for the Red Bull generation.
Genres: Action
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2008-06-11
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State Affairs
Overview: A plane explodes above the Gulf of Guinea. An escort girl is murdered in a Parisian park. Thousands of miles separate these two events, and yet Nora Chahyd, believes there's a connection between them, much to his superiors chagrin. As Nora investigates, getting dangerously close to the powers that be, the murders and betrayals accumulate, and signs point to a state affair at the heart of it all.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2009-11-25
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Chaos
Overview: A bourgeois couple, modern yet conventional. One night by accident, a young prostitute barges into their lives. Hounded down, beaten up, threatened, she will continue to struggle, with the help of a well off lady, first for her survival-her resurrection-then for her dignity and freedom. Stormy encounters for everyone involved.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2001-10-03
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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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Secrets of State
Overview: In France, terrorist groups and intelligence agencies battle in a merciless war everyday, in the name of radically opposed ideologies. Yet, terrorist and secret agents lead almost the same lives. Condemned to secrecy, these masters of manipulation follow the same methods. Alex and Al Barad are two of them. The former is the head of the D.G.S.E.'s (Direction Générale de la Sécurité Extérieure, the French equivalent of the CIA or the MI6) counter-terrorism unit while the latter reigns over a terrorist network, and both fight using the most ruthless of weapons: human beings.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2008-12-10
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Houria
Overview: A young woman who is passionate about ballet dancing and experiences a trauma, and then she meets other women who have experienced similar situations and they find a creative way to pursue their passion.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2023-03-15
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The Straight Line
Overview: Leila is released from prison after five years of confinement. She will meet Yannick, a young athlete who became blind after an accident. This last practice race despite his disability, but to run it must be connected by a wire to guide a person called. It offers Leila to be his guide. Through this project, they will learn to rebuild.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2011-03-07
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One Day in Europe
Overview: One day in Europe shows stories set in four European countries. All of them involve thievery in some way or the other. The protagonists are strangers in the respective country. For none of them their stay turns out as planned.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-04-01
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Ne quittez pas !
Overview: Félix Mandel, an internationally renowned astrophysicist, is married with a four-year-old son and often has his head in the clouds.
Genres: Fantasy Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2004-08-18
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Save Our School
Overview: A delightful and ebullient comedy on Paris’ first suburban “green school”.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2022-09-28
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Hip Moves
Overview: Hervé is a lonely man who lives only for his self-defense courses. Fired from the zoo where he works because he depresses the animals, he becomes a night watchman in a factory. To pass the time, he watches the comings and goings of a strange pair of lovers: his colleague and his wife who sells her body with her husband's blessing.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2012-09-26
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Cheba Louisa
Overview: 30-year-old Djemila, a single jurist, at last has her own apartment... a few steps away from her parents' place. A French woman of North African extraction, she does everything she can to hide her origins. Emma, her nutty and broke neighbor, struggles to raise her two children alone. Although these two women have nothing in common, a deep friendship forms between them because of their mutual love of music.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2013-05-08
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Silences d'état
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Genres: Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2013-05-16
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Enough!
Overview: Set amidst the civil war of Algeria in the 1990s, Enough! is the story of two women. Emel is a Westerner whose husband, a journalist, is missing - perhaps kidnapped or even killed for articles he's written.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2006-09-13
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Une couleur café
Overview: An Ivorian immigrant in France passes off his second wife as his daughter in order to obtain a residence visa.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1997-01-02
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The Overeater
Overview: Séléna is chief of the Marseille police. Respected and feared by his men, his sole enemy seems to be himself, along with his 300 pounds. Strangled by the bursting straight-jacket of his body, tortured by his past, he leads a solitary life in a large isolated house. Séléna is the only person who knows that Elsa was guilty of the murder of her uncle, a wealthy shipowner. Fascinated by the young woman’s beauty, he offers her a strange deal: in exchange for his silence, he demands that she dines with him every night for a year.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2003-07-16
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L'enfant Endormi
Overview: In the northeast of contemporary Morocco, Zeinab, a young wife watches her husband leave the country to go underground the day after their wedding. Zeinab is expecting a child. While she is waiting for her husband to return she lulls the foetus to sleep. Time goes by and the husband does not come back.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 2004-09-10
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Lonely Planet
Overview: At an idyllic writers retreat in Morocco, a newly single novelist finds an unexpected connection with a younger man who's reevaluating his life choices.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-10-10
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Gaëtan Roussel : Création éclect!que aux Francofolies de La Rochelle
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Genres: Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2024-07-11
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Let Them Come
Overview: At the turn of 1990 in Algeria, in an end-of-era atmosphere marked by the victory of the Islamists in the municipal elections, then in the interrupted legislative elections of 1991, a prelude to a decade of particularly barbaric violence, the Algerians will experience the radical Islamism, its desire to rule public and private life and a daily life of attacks, assassinations, then collective massacres, which left 200,000 dead. Literature and cinema have strived to question and bear witness to the enormous trauma of this period called the “black decade”.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2015-04-30
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Out of the Blue
Overview: Marion, a 50 year old woman, suddenly ups and leaves the man with whom she has been living for the past 20 years; she has found herself, midlife, in love with her friend Claude, another woman.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2007-02-08
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L'Amour, la mort, les fringues
Overview: They stick to our skin and soul, our clothes. We believe we buy them, they own us. Warning ! these rags are traitors: far from dressing us they expose our complexes, our moods ... Clinging to their hangers, to our memories too, they exercise an underhand dictatorship. Snuggled up, huddled together, they build a bulwark against oblivion in our closets. Often stained for eternity with ink or redcurrant, impregnated with perfume, tears sometimes, piled up or messed up on our shelves, they remain forever linked to the happy or unhappy chapters of our life. It is through the evocation of their wardrobe that Gigi, Eve, Marie, Nora, Françoise, Amanda, Lisa and the others evoke the past, missed appointments and those that changed their lives, the joys and childhood revolts, giggles, disappointments, dramas, parties and hopes too…
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2011-02-26
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11247
Overview: Just as Lucas is about to become a father, his life is turned upside down when he discovers that his own father, who was officially "disappeared" during the dictatorship in Argentina in the 1980s, is still alive.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
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Sisters
Overview: For thirty years, French-Algerian sisters Zorah, Nohra and Djamila have been living in the hope of finding their brother Rheda, abducted by their father, and hidden in newly decolonised Algeria. Their relationship is shaken when Zorah, the eldest sister, decides to write a play based on the traumatising events of their childhood that haunted them their whole life. But when they learn that their father is dying, the three sisters decide to go to Algeria to seize their last opportunity to have him reveal where their brother is. When the past catches up, the three sisters have no choice but to put their differences aside.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2021-06-30
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Torn
Overview: In the suburb of Lille, Stéphane holds a tobacco shop with his father, Maurice, a retired military officer. Although feeling trapped in his marriage, Stéphane doesn't want to leave his wife, Elise, a lawyer, and is currently having an affair with Leila, a physiotherapist and mother of two. Together they hope for a better life, but everything changes when Sofiane, Leila's 15 year old son, holds up the store at gunpoint, without any knowledge of his mother's affair with Stéphane. Maurice-violently hit-pulls out a gun and shoots him.
Genres: TV Movie Drama Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2019-03-13
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Lisa et le pilote d'avion
Overview: Lisa and Corinne are personal assistants to people with disabilities. Lisa is happily married and have two kids. Corinne is in and out of love affairs. One day Lisa meet an airline pilot who charms her and she can't say no to.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2006-01-01
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We Should Not Exist
Overview: Hervé is a 37-year-old porno movie actor. Weary of the excesses of this fringe universe, he decides to hang up his Condoman costume and turn over a new leaf as a mainstream movie actor. He thus enters a world he knows nothing about. Rejected by his fellow actors, Hervé is just dying to learn the rules of the game. He then encounters LZA...
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2006-05-23
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L'Âme du mal
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Genres: Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2011-11-12
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A Day in the Life of French Cinema
Overview: Documentary showing one day of work of over 90 actors and filmmakers from French cinema on the same day. On 27 March 2002, 27 teams filmed actors, directors, producers and technicians at work, from Hawaii to Paris and from New York to Lisbon.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2002-05-20
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