Valérie Lemercier
Also Known As: Valerie Lemercier, Валері Лемерсьє, Valerie Anne Marie Lemercier
Biography: Valérie Lemercier (born 9 March 1964) is a French actress, screenwriter, director and singer. Born in Dieppe, Seine-Maritime as the daughter of farmers, Lemercier grew up in Gonzeville and then studied at the Rouen Conservatoire - a dance, music and drama school. Lemercier made her screen debut in 1988, in the television series Palace. Lemercier has won two César Awards for her supporting roles in Les Visiteurs (1993) and Fauteuils d'orchestre (2007), and hosted the award ceremony in 2006 and 2007. She has subsequently become a successful director. Lemercier released her first music album, Valérie Lemercier chante, in 1996, and has subsequently recorded three singles with other singers. Source: Article "Valérie Lemercier" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Dieppe, Seine-Maritime, France
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Birthday: March 09, 1964
Age: 61 years old
Gender: Female
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Avenue Montaigne
Overview: A young woman arrives in Paris where she finds a job as a waitress in bar next on Avenue Montaigne that caters to the surrounding theaters and the wealthy inhabitants of the area. She will meet a pianist, a famous actress and a great art collector, and become acquainted with the "luxurious" world her grandmother has told her about since her childhood.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2006-02-15
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Agathe Cléry
Overview: Agathe Clery, a marketing manager for a cosmetics company, is snobbish, stubborn and racist. When she is diagnosed with Addison Syndrome, an disorder that darkens the pigmentation of one's skin, she suddenly finds herself resembling a black woman.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2008-11-11
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The Visitors
Overview: After a wizard's spell goes awry, 12th-century Gallic knight Godefroy de Papincourt, Count of Montmirail finds himself transported to 1993, along with his dimwitted servant, Jacquouille la Fripouille. Startled and perplexed by modern technology, the duo run amok, destroying cars and causing chaos until they meet Beatrice de Montmirail, an aristocratic descendant of the nobleman, who may be able to help them get back to 1123.
Genres: Fantasy Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1993-01-27
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Little Nicholas
Overview: Nicolas has a happy existence, parents who love him, a great group of friends with whom he has great fun, and all he wants is that nothing changes. However, one day, he overhears a conversation that leads him to believe that his life might change forever, his mother is pregnant! He panics and envisions the worst.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2009-09-30
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Jean Paul Gaultier fait son show
Overview: On the occasion of Jean Paul Gaultier's 40-year career and his show "Fashion Freak Show" at the Folies Bergère, France 2 has given carte blanche to the most famous French couturier of the world who has created for the first time a great show of varieties fully immersed in his universe. Jean Paul Gaultier who, in his childhood, dreamed while watching the variety shows of Maritie and Gilbert Carpentier, takes the reins of this great entertainment mixing music and fashion.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2018-10-13
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Royal Palace
Overview: Eugenia is the queen of an imaginary European country. When her husband dies, quite unexpectedly, the country is left without a king. According to the law, the new king needs to be married so that leaves out the eldest son. Her youngest son, Prince Arnaud is married to the lovely Armelle and they have two young children. They become the future rulers of the kingdom.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2005-11-23
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L'Opération Corned Beef
Overview: The unsanctioned efforts of a covert unit to gather evidence about illegal arms shipments with the unwitting help of an embassy employee.
Genres: Comedy Action
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1991-02-06
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Ce soir, c'est Palmashow
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Genres: Comedy Family TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2023-03-17
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The Dinner Guest
Overview: Fifty years old, three years past of unemployment, benefits decreasing very quickly... Gerard is at the end of the rope when a position is offered him in Indonesia. To win the favor of his new employer, Gerard invites him to dinner at home. Fatal Error ! Terrified at the idea of not being up to par, his wife Colette begs Alexandre, their neighbor to help. Communication guru, Alexander accepts the challenge and gives a makeover to the couple in twenty-four hours. Apartment, decoration, lifestyle, dinner menu, uniforms, culture... Everything !
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2007-09-19
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Fear City: A Family-Style Comedy
Overview: A second-class horror movie has to be shown at Cannes Film Festival, but, before each screening, the projectionist is killed by a mysterious fellow, with hammer and sickle, just as it happens in the film to be shown.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1994-03-09
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Friday Night
Overview: Paris, 1995. Laure is about to meet friends for dinner. But on her way out, she discovers that the entire city is stalled by a massive transit strike. When she offers a handsome stranger a ride, Laure takes a highly charged, impossibly erotic detour.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2002-09-11
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CANAL+'s 30th anniversary
Overview: Primetime special to celebrate 30 years of CANAL+.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2014-11-04
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A Day at the Museum
Overview: Un conservateur terrorisé par les plantes vertes, une mère plastifiée pour être exposée, un ballet de Saintes Vierges, des gardiens épuisés par Rodin, un ministre perdu dans une exposition de sexes, une voiture disparue au parking Rembrandt, des provinciaux amoureux des Impressionnistes, touristes galopins galopant d'une salle à l'autre, passager clandestin dans l'art premier, Picasso, Gauguin, Warhol, ils sont tous là dans ce petit monde qui ressemble au grand, dans ce musée pas si imaginaire que ça, valsant la comédie humaine jusqu'au burlesque.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2008-11-19
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From Behind
Overview: Frédérique's mother has died recently leaving her the family stud farm. She's never met her father, doesn't even know his name. But she finds it on the back of an old photo. She sets off for Paris. She stays with her gay dancer pal Marc. Marc and friends decide to go to their favourite gay bar... but it's men only. So Frédérique becomes Frédéric, an effeminate gay boy... Frédérique follows her father. Pierre Arroux is an art curator - and gay. She introduces herself to him, but as Frédéric. So while Frédéric is quite an awkward young man and an embarrassment to his father, Frédérique is secretly meeting with her old boyfriend now living in Paris..
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1999-04-28
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Casque bleu
Overview: Winegrower Patrick Ponsac comes close to ruining his marriage when he has an affair with another woman. By way of atonement, he takes his wife back to the Mediterranean island where, 13 years earlier, they spent their honeymoon. Not such a good move, as it turns out. The peacemaking holiday coincides with the outbreak of a bloody civil war. Having failed to leave the country, Patrick, his wife and their eccentric entourage are taken hostage by merciless guerrillas…
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1994-06-15
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Employee of the Month
Overview: Vincent, a civil servant, has always enjoyed the benefits of his family's status. When the government votes on a massive savings plan, Vincent is pushed out. When he is transferred to the North Pole, he meets Eva and finds love. It's time for him to choose.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2022-06-29
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Welcome Aboard
Overview: Isabelle, HR of a large cruise company, made the mistake of choosing her boss as a lover. Before embarking on the maiden voyage of the new flagship of the fleet, though, he decided to disembark from their relationship! Some women take their revenge by poison, firearm, or slander. Isabelle chooses Remy a flamboyant, unemployed ne'er-do-well who flunked out in life on land, but after all is said and done, might have better luck at sea... She recruits him as leader of her plot and on this Palace of the Seas, Remy will first prove to be the worst nightmare of the CEO and Richard, the Cruise Director...then, little by little, he will change his life and that of all those who cross his path...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2011-10-05
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Le bal des Casse-pieds
Overview: A tolerant veterinarian turns the other cheek when annoyed but changes his nature when he falls in love.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1992-02-12
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Love Lasts Three Years
Overview: A heartbroken literary critic turns his despair into creativity following a bitter divorce, only to encounter an enchanting beauty who poses a major challenge to his newfound cynicism. Marc Marronnier thought his marriage was going well until his wife deemed him immature, and left him for a high-profile writer. Devastated, he began filtering all of his heartache into a misanthropic manuscript decrying the virtues of true love. But later, when Marc falls hard for his cousin's radiant and gorgeous wife, his entire life is turned upside down. Louise Bourgoin and Gaspard Proust star in a film by actor and author-turned-director Frederic Beigbeder.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2011-12-10
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Family Hero
Overview: A story of a cabaret in Nice called "Le perroquet bleu" ("The blue parrot"). The innkeeper, Gabriel, dies at the beginning of the movie and leave his business to his godchildren : Nino and Marianne, whom father had been taken under Gabriel's wing when he was fifteen years old. After the reading of the will, the fate of "The Blue Parrot" is in their hands.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2006-12-20
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Granny's Funeral
Overview: A provincial chemist in the throes of a mid-life crisis must choose between burying his dearly departed grandmother and cremating her in this quirky comedy of manners starring Valerie Lemercier, Denis Podalydes, and Isabelle Candelier.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2012-06-19
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Asterix & Obelix: God Save Britannia
Overview: Asterix crosses the channel to help second-cousin Anticlimax face down Julius Caesar and invading Romans.
Genres: Family Adventure Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2012-10-17
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La télé de Valérie Lemercier
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2017-11-23
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The Ultimate Accessory
Overview: The story of Aleksandra and Cyrille, a prominent, trendy, and very well-off Parisian couple, whose life is not quite the same after seven-year-old Alekseï from Russia suddenly pops up in their 100% cashmere, childless home. Aleksandra soon realises that this little boy they have adopted is not quite what she had been hoping for...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2013-12-11
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Under the Rainbow
Overview: An association takes in young LGBT people made homeless by their families. Behind the apparent comedy, the excesses, the desire to assert themselves, lie shattered lives. They all have this furious desire to exist, to find their place in society. Here, they have six months to find a job, a place to live and accept themselves as they are. It's a race against time, during which Noëlle, who runs the association, and Alex, who helps her in her mission, are also forced to face up to their own failings and question their motivation for helping others.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2023-11-22
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The Revenge of Bernadette Chirac
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Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2023-10-08
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L'Âge d'or de la pub
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Genres: Documentary TV Movie History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2023-06-02
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RRRrrrr!!!
Overview: In 35,000 BC, the tribe of the Dirty Hairs is at war against the tribe of the Clean Hairs for eight hundred years, trying to get their shampoo. The chief of the Dirty Hairs sends his daughter Guy disguised to the enemy tribe to get some shampoo for his tribe. When the healer of the Clean Hairs tribe surprisingly kills two cavemen of his tribe, their imbecile chief assigns Pierre with curled hair and Pierre blonde to investigate the murder and find the criminal.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2004-01-28
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Sexes faibles !
Overview: The La Chesnays live in a castle threatened with destruction to accommodate a TGV line. While Gilles, the husband, agrees to receive compensation, his wife, Maud, fights with the other villagers so that the project does not materialize.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1992-10-14
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Nicholas on Holiday
Overview: It's the end of the school year. The long-awaited moment of the holidays is arrive. The little Nicolas, her parents and Grandma take the road towards the sea, and settle in for some time at the Hotel Beau-Rivage.
Genres: Family Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2014-07-09
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Coup de Chance
Overview: Fanny and Jean have everything of an ideal couple: fulfilled in their professional life, they live in a magnificent apartment in the beautiful districts of Paris and seem to be in love as on the first day. But when Fanny crosses, by chance, Alain, a former high school friend, she is immediately capsized. They see each other again very quickly and get closer and closer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2023-09-15
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La Traversée de Bourvil
Overview: September 23, 2022 marks the 52nd anniversary of the death of Bourvil (1917-1970). Radio, sketches, boulevard theater, operetta, cinema, songs whimsical or tender, Bourvil is present in all areas of popular culture. Carried by the voice of Valérie Lemercier, this portrait of the artist allows us to rediscover his most beautiful songs, from Les Crayons to La Tendresse, and the highlights of his filmography, from the cult scenes of La Traversée de Paris, Le Corniaud and La Grande Vadrouille to Le Cercle rouge. We also rediscover the richness of his career as a singer and actor, with some little known nuggets. The testimony of Bourvil's two sons, unpublished family films and numerous archives tell the story of the all too brief life of this endearing man.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2022-09-23
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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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It Takes Two To Tango
Overview: Antoine Toussaint is a famous, disillusioned 70 year-old crooner. On a train to Geneva where he plans to end his life, Antoine meets Victoire, a good-natured fan with a few loose wires. This unlikely encounter thwarts all Antoine’s plans, for better or worse!
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2025-04-16
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Quadrille
Overview: Carl Herickson, a big American film star, unwillingly upsets a Parisian trio: a newspaper editor, his theater actress wife, and their fiery journalist best friend.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1997-04-23
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Marie-Francine
Overview: A woman at the age of 50 moves back in with her parents after her husband leave her for a younger woman.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2017-05-31
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Sabrina
Overview: Sabrina Fairchild, a chauffeur's daughter, grew up at the Long Island estate of the wealthy Larrabee family enchanted with their sparkling world of privilege and wealth, but she's especially enamored of younger son David, a charming playboy. After the once plain Sabrina returns from a sojourn in Paris transformed into a glamorous young woman, she at long last catches David's eye. In a calculated effort to manipulate David away from her and into a more financially advantageous marriage, formidable older brother Linus devises a plan to keep them apart.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-12-15
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Monte Carlo
Overview: Three young women vacationing in Paris find themselves whisked away to Monte Carlo after one of the girls is mistaken for a British heiress.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-07-01
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Aline
Overview: A fictionalized biopic of Aline Dieu, a multitalented singer from a musically inclined family.
Genres: Music Comedy Drama Family
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2020-11-19
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Neuilly sa mère, sa mère !
Overview: In 2008, Sami Benboudaoud discovered the hell of Neuilly-sur-Seine. Ten years later, now that everything is for the best for Sami who brilliantly completes his studies of political science, nothing will go for his cousin Charles of Chazelle.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2018-08-08
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Ballsy Girl
Overview: Nour is a pleasant and funny person who works as an accountant at a fitness center in Paris. Everybody likes her, but she has no luck in her romantic endeavours because she is overweight with atypical looks. Her close friends try to give her advice, but they are not particularly successful in the love department either. Her mother and brother are also close, but they are of no help, rather the contrary. One day she witnesses a pole dancing class at her workplace, something that she would never dream of doing herself, but she sees how much the women in the class and their teacher are enjoying themselves, so she is tempted. Finally the teacher starts giving her private lessons since she is too ashamed of her body to do anything in public. Slowly but surely she gains confidence in herself and many things change in her life.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2020-04-15
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Les Enfoirés 1993 - Les Enfoirés chantent Starmania
Overview: Show recorded on February 26, 1993 at the Grande Halle de la Villette in Paris for the benefit of the Restos du Coeur.
Genres: Music Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1993-03-06
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Les Enfoirés 1994 - Les Enfoirés au Grand Rex
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Genres: Music Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1994-02-05
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May Fools
Overview: An eccentric family is re-united during the 1968 general strike in France, after the death of the grandmother.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1990-01-24
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Josep
Overview: February 1939. Overwhelmed by the flood of Republicans fleeing Franco's dictatorship, the French government's solution consists in confining the Spanish refugees in concentration camps where they have no other choice than to build their own shelters, feed off the horses which have carried them out of their country, and die by the hundred for lack of hygiene and water... In one of these camps, two men, separated by barbwire, will become friends. One is a guard the other is Josep Bartoli (Barcelona 1910 - New York 1995), a cartoonist who fights against the Franco regime.
Genres: Animation Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2020-09-30
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Hand in Hand
Overview: From the moment they meet - and against their will - Helene and Joachim begin a lovers' dance they are powerless to stop.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2012-12-19
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Bistouri
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
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