Jean-François Dérec
Also Known As: Jean-François Derec, Jean-François Derrec, Jean-François Dereczynski
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: La-Voulte-sur-Rhône, Ardèche, France
Birthday: May 11, 1957
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Gender: Male
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T'aime
Overview: Zef, twenty years old, is a simple-minded man who can only say one word: "love you". Always happy, loving everyone, he lives with his sister Sophie on a farm in the Lot. Attracted by the sad smile of Marie, he rapes her one evening without realizing the gravity of his act. Commited in a psychiatric asylum, Zef falls into a deep silence. Hugues, a doctor with avant-garde methods, is in charge of caring for Marie. He decides to confront her with Zef, convinced that her healing goes through a long reappropriation of life and love.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2000-04-26
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The Dogs
Overview: After several inhabitants of a new city were bitten by dogs, a young doctor tries to stop to the climb of violence.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1979-03-07
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Marche à l'ombre
Overview: Two friends, one a musician the other constantly depressed wander around Greece and France till they get to Paris without a penny to their name. Here they spend nights in the underground, and squat in houses with the African immigrants. One day they both fall in love with Mathilde a blond dancer and follow her to New York.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1984-10-17
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Not Everybody's Lucky Enough to Have Communist Parents
Overview: This bright domestic drama captures a moment in time when, for a large number of idealistic and grateful French men and women, the promise of Russian communism was bright, and everything Russian was a source of joy and amazement. In the story, Irene was rescued from Auschwitz by soldiers from the U.S.S.R., and since that time she has enthusiatically considered Russia to be the source of hope in the world. Her more pragmatic husband has, by 1958, grown somewhat weary of her enthusiasm, which has led her to decorate their apartment with anything Russian she can get her hands on. Matters come to a head when she is befriended by three members of the Red Army Choir during their tour of Paris.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1993-12-01
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Loonies at Large
Overview: This comedy brings Pierre Richard and Michel Piccoli together onscreen once again. In the story, former professor Henri Toussaint Piccoli has been locked away in a psychiatric ward for some years for trying to strangle his wife when he found her in bed with another man. Now she has a terminal illness, and wants some sort of reconciliation with him. His therapist (Richard) decides to permit him to visit with her, provided he comes along. Except for his wide mood swings and occasional outbursts of lewd muttering, the professor "passes" for sane fairly easily. Not so the psychotic (Dominique Pinon) who stows away in the psychiatrist's car, who constantly calls attention to the other two.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1993-08-11
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Le Zèbre
Overview: Hippolyte, the titular oddball, is a far from typical country lawyer. He has been happily married to the woman of his dreams for 15 years, but has an incurable penchant for practical (or rather impractical) jokes.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1992-06-16
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Ça n'empêche pas les sentiments
Overview: A former schoolteacher turned film distributor, Jean-Pierre Jackson made his directorial debut with this French comedy about two losers. When alimony payments catch up with Felix (Philippe Chevaillier), his furniture is seized. After a decade-long marriage, Raoul (Regis Laspales) leaves his wife. The two team for a job with Le Gai Vendangeur (The Jolly Vintner) as sales reps, but they score zero while tooling around Brittany in a silly station wagon decorated with an immense wine bottle atop the vehicle's roof. However, when they're joined by friendly, sexy Eliane (Cecile Bois), sales surge. The wine pours, and so does the money. Life is sweet, but it all turns sour when an affair begins between Felix and Eliane, much to Raoul's regret.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1998-03-01
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Fall Out
Overview: This film is an adaptation of Jean Amila's novel Le Boucher des Hurlus. The story, set in the aftermath of the war, is about Michel, a young man orphaned in this manner. He lives with his mother until she collapses under the wave of vituperation from the women in her community, who consider her murdered husband to have been a traitor. When he is sent to an orphanage, he discovers that many of the children in it are there for the same reason he is. Michel decides to escape his captivity and kill the general who ordered his father's death. He and the other children like him are able to get away from the orphanage, in the course of their journeys, they tour the grim battlefields of the recent war. Together, they return to Paris, determined to exact their revenge.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1996-05-08
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Dracula and Son
Overview: With angry villagers driving them away from their castle in Transylvania, Dracula and his son Ferdinand head abroad. Dracula ends up in London, England where he becomes a horror movie star exploiting his vampire status. His son, meanwhile, is ashamed of his roots and ends up a night watchman in Paris, France where he falls for a girl. Naturally, tensions arise when father and son are reunited and both take a liking to the same girl.
Genres: Fantasy Comedy Horror
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1976-09-14
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L'Orange de Noël
Overview: On the eve of the First World War, the inhabitants of a small village in Corrèze see a strange woman arrive: Cécile Brunie, a young teacher with original methods. Badly perceived from the beginning, the young woman tries as best she can to gather a whole class because since always the children are sent to the farm from their youngest age without being able to go to school. However, Cécile does not give up and decides to fight against ignorance.
Genres: Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1996-11-10
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The Glass Sky
Overview: Julien works in an office and lives with his invalid mother and his girlfriend in a pre-war Paris apartment. He feels like the two women take advantage of him and at night, he dreams of sex and violence. Meanwhile, a murderer is loose in Paris, killing women. One day in the metro, Julien believes he sees a murder victim from his dreams; the enigmatic beauty leads him into an old shopping arcade peopled by strange figures, where he meets prostitute Bichette. The independent, confident young woman starts an affair with the clerk. But then Julien witnesses a real murder in the glass-roofed arcade…
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1987-01-01
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Clochemerle
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2004-04-06
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The Grand Highway
Overview: Louis, a nine-year-old boy from Paris, spends his summer vacation in a small town in Brittany. His mother Claire has lodged him with her girlfriend Marcelle and her husband Pelo while she's having her second baby. There Louis makes friends with Martine, the ten-year- old girl next door, and learns from her about life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1987-03-25
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Hot Chocolate
Overview: B.J. Cassidy, a rich businesswoman, has to invest several billion dollars for fiscal reasons. She undertakes to buy back a small French factory, specialized in chocolate truffles...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-01-01
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The Apprentice Heel
Overview: After a car accident in which his mother dies, Antoine Chapelote decides to change his life and become a con-artist. He meets a young girl Caroline who helps him with his scam.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1977-02-12
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Adam et Ève
Overview: Movie producer Léon Blachurpe is about to produce a big budget movie about Adam and Eve. In order to get the money, he agrees to hire ex movie star La Maldiva to play the lead part, but she's old and ugly, so the scenes are actually shot with the stunt woman !
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1984-06-03
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Les Bronzés, le père Noël, papy et les autres
Overview: Les Bronzés, le Père Noël, Papy et les autres....Discover or rediscover the emblematic scenes of these cult films that have crossed generations without getting old. Go behind the scenes of these unusual films through completely unpublished anecdotes and funny stories told by the authors themselves.
Genres: Documentary Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2003-01-03
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The War Is Over
Overview: The film is set in France in August 1944 at the end of the war. German troops are in retreat as the allies are coming in. Two French boys run from home and on their journey they stumble upon a German soldier. Soon they become friends and together they head towards Lyon...
Genres: War Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1989-04-26
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Nuit d'ivresse
Overview: In a bar, ex-TV host Belin meets Frede, an ex-maid who just got out of prison. Between them, they manage to create panic everywhere they go. The next morning Belin has forgotten everything.
Genres: Family Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1985-01-01
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One Hell of a Plan
Overview: Two burglars release dozens of cats into a neighbourhood and start the dogs barking. They use the din to their advantage and dig up a bag of loot. However, the situation snowballs and turns into the worst night the burglars ever spent.
Genres: Animation Comedy Crime Family
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2016-06-16
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Jeanne Poisson, Marquise de Pompadour
Overview: Jeanne Poisson, the headstrong, ambitious, witty and erudite, catches the eye and heart of French King Louis XV at a costumed ball. She masters the art of seduction well enough to become accepted even by the Queen, corpulent mother of ten. As a sensibly chosen Royal 'favorite' mistress she is soon ennobled Marquise of Pompadour to facilitate her introduction at court. The immature dauphin (crown prince) proves a bitter and unrelenting enemy, joined by his imposed Saxon bride, and his sister at her deathbed. Although friends at court help Pompadour return, her health gives way.
Genres: Drama History Romance TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2006-10-16
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The Seventh Company Outdoors
Overview: The third part of Seventh Company adventures.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1977-12-07
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Mia and the Migoo
Overview: One night Mia has a premonition. So after saying a few words of parting at her mother’s grave, she sets out on a cross continent journey, though mountains and jungles in search of her father, who has been trapped in a landslide at a construction site on a remote tropical lake. In the middle of the lake stands the ancient Tree of Life, watched over by innocent, bumbling forest spirits called the Migoo, who grow and change shape as they please, morphing from small childlike beings to petulant giants. The Migoo have been disrupting the construction to protect this sacred site – and now together with Mia they join in a fight to find Mia’s father and save the Tree, with the future of life on Earth hanging in the balance.
Genres: Animation Family
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2008-09-06
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La Dame de chez Maxim
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2008-01-26
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Jean-François Derec : Au Palais des Glaces
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2002-12-20
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Le Retour de Lemmy Caution
Overview: The owner of Black Angel is shot by Mamba, a killer in the pay of the Chinese mafia. The victim's daughter, who witnessed the murder and knows she is threatened, refuses to collaborate with the police and prefers to call on an old friend of her father's, Lemmy Caution, but is this man, who lives on an island paradise, still old enough to play the vigilante?
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1989-07-02
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Black Mor's Island
Overview: Kid, a 15-year-old hard laborer, steals a map that promises to reveal the location of the notorious pirate Black Mor's treasure. Together with his crew -- MacGregor, Beanpole, Taka and Jim the monkey -- Kid procures a vessel and sets out to sea.
Genres: Animation Adventure Family
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2004-02-11
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Pardon Mon Affaire
Overview: On an otherwise normal day, Étienne, a happily married man and a good father, sees something that stops him dead in his tracks: a gorgeous woman in a billowing red dress. Long after she has left his vision, her memory continues to haunt his mind. He falls instantly in love with her and tries everything to get to know her better. Helping Étienne snare his elusive lady in red are his three bumbling buddies, which all have secret affairs and/or cheat on their wives.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1976-09-22
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Man Is a Woman
Overview: Simon Eskenazy is a gay Parisian clarinet player who lives his single life to the fullest. One day, he receives a very tempting offer from his homophobic uncle, looking to continue the family legacy – if he gets married and has a child, he will receive ten million francs and inherit his uncle's luxurious mansion. After meeting Rosalie Baumann at his cousin David's wedding, and with some convincing on his mother's part, Simon sees an opportunity to fulfill his uncle's wishes and the pair go ahead and get married, but not before traveling to New York to meet Rosalie's Orthodox Jewish family. As Simon tries to develop real feelings for Rosalie, he struggles with his feelings for his newlywed cousin David.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1998-03-11
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Sachs' Disease
Overview: Dr. Bruno Sachs, the only medical practitioner in a small French town, seems on the surface to be compassionate and dedicated. However, in private he is not happy in his work and does not like most of his patients. Here he meets Pauline Kasser, a young woman, and they are attracted to each other...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1999-09-22
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Great, My Parents Divorce!
Overview: Julien, a boy in the sixth grade, was badly depressed by the divorce of his parents. But he soon found that half of the class had come from broken families.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1991-01-30
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