Isabelle Renauld
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Biography: Isabelle Renauld (born 24 November 1966 in Saint-Malo, Ille-et-Vilaine) is a French actress. She trained at the Nanterre Amandiers theatre school directed by Patrice Chéreau from 1985 to 1987. She was made a Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters in January 2010. Born in Saint-Malo to a pharmacist father and a mother who was an IFOP researcher, her parents divorced when she was 5 years old and she grew up with her mother and her sister, who is 3 years her senior. She quickly developed a passion for theatre and at the age of 16 decided to leave Brittany to devote herself to acting in Paris. She was admitted to the "free class" of the Cours Florent in 1984 where she met Pierre Romans who encouraged her to try for the Nanterre Amandiers school which he runs with Patrice Chéreau. She succeeded in the competition when only the top twenty become part of Patrice Chéreau's cast. She learned her trade with Agnes Jaoui, Vincent Pérez, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Bruno Todeschini, Marc Citti. She met Laurent Malet there, who became her companion and the father of her son Théo. In 1990, she landed the role of Isabelle in L'Opération Corned-Beef alongside Jean Reno and Christian Clavier. She rose to prominence in 1996 with the scandalous Parfait Amour! by Catherine Breillat which earned her the Prix Michel-Simon. A year later, in 1997, she met Theo Angelopoulos and acted in Eternity and a Day which received the Golden Palm at Cannes in 1998. She has appeared in three films by François Dupeyron in 1999, 2001 and 2003 (What is life?, Mr. Ibrahim and the Flowers of the Koran, and the House of Officers), two by Philippe Lioret in 2006 and 2011 (Don't Worry, I'm fine and All Our Desires), and two by Catherine Breillat. She lives in Paris but often returns to Saint-Malo to "recharge" and to reconnect with her roots. Source: Article "Isabelle Renauld" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Saint-Malo, Ille-et-Vilaine, France
Birthday: November 24, 1966
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Gender: Female
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Monsieur Ibrahim
Overview: Paris, 1960s. Momo, a resolute and independent Jewish teenager who lives with his father, a sullen and depressed man, in a working-class neighborhood, develops a close friendship with Monsieur Ibrahim, an elderly Muslim who owns a small grocery store.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2003-09-17
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Don't Worry, I'm Fine
Overview: A 19-year-old searches for her twin brother after he runs away from home, following a fight with their father.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2006-09-06
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Toi que j'aimais tant
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Genres: Drama Crime TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2014-10-25
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The Last Mistress
Overview: Secrets, rumors and betrayals surround the upcoming marriage between a young dissolute man and virtuous woman of the French aristocracy.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2007-05-30
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Eternity and a Day
Overview: An ailing Greek man attempts to take a young, illegal Albanian immigrant home.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1998-10-23
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The End of an Eternity
Overview: Documentary that recounts the ups and downs of the shooting of Eternity and a Day (1998), focusing on the exhaustive preparation of the shot-sequence that closes the film, and the peculiar way in which Theo Angelopoulos works with his technical team and actors.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1999-01-01
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Vidocq
Overview: Paris, 1830. In the heart of the town, Vidocq, a famous detective, disappears as he fights the Alchemist, an assassin that he has been pursuing for a few months. His young biographer, Etienne Boisset, decides to avenge Vidocq's death and takes the investigation on...
Genres: Fantasy Action Thriller Crime Science Fiction Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2001-09-18
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Let's Be Friends
Overview: The two friends Claude and Serge are fundamentally different in their temperament. Similarities arise only when they try to have a relationship with a woman, because both fail equally. While Claude is simply too shy to even start a relationship, let alone meet a woman, Serge is too jumpy to have a relationship. Together they go in search of the great love in all sorts of curious situations, from the self-help group on speed dating to wedding celebrations of strangers - in the hunt for the right woman, they are no way too far.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2005-02-23
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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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Imposture
Overview: A literary professor who suffers from writer's block decides to kidnap one of his female students in order to promote her brilliant essay that reminds him of his own work as his own.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2005-05-25
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Ça ne se refuse pas
Overview: Marthe, an aging queen of the night, roams the streets of a city haunted by the presence of an invisible murderer in search of money to pay a large gambling debt.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1998-08-12
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The Officers' Ward
Overview: The first days of WWI. Adrien, a young and handsome lieutenant, is wounded by a piece of shrapnel. He will spend the entire wartime at the Val-de-Grâce Hospital, in Paris. Five long years, and his life will change forever...
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2001-09-26
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Perfect Love
Overview: In Dunkirk, a man and a woman meet and fall in love, then hate each other.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1996-10-23
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Hôtel de France
Overview: A French family is shown as they go through the daily routines of life. Arguing, feasting, crying, and yearning for love are just some of the human emotions encountered. The mood wavers between excessive noise to silence while those not participating in the conversations eavesdrop.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1987-05-20
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Prey
Overview: One night, several deer hurl themselves unexpectedly against the electric fence of a farm. Seeing deep signs of biting on the animals’ bodies, the farm owners realise that a predator is roaming about the neighbouring woods. Having determined to hunt it down, the farmer and his family penetrate deep into the surrounding forest. They look with bewilderment at the dying environment ravaged by a mysterious evil force. As the sun slowly sinks away, howling resounds through the forest. The hunters have become prey...
Genres: Adventure Drama Horror Mystery Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2011-07-13
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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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Forever Young
Overview: At the end of the 1980s, Stella, Victor, Adèle and Etienne are 20 years old. They take the entrance exam to the famous acting school created by Patrice Chéreau and Pierre Romans at the Théâtre des Amandiers in Nanterre. Launched at full speed into life, passion, and love, together they will experience the turning point of their lives, but also their first tragedy.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2022-11-16
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Women in Love
Overview: A gaggle of young women gather at the seaside to celebrate their friend's birthday and help mend her recently broken heart. As the women confide in each other and trade thoughts on love, a young American man catches their attention, and they begin to engage in a series of games.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1987-11-28
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C'est quoi la vie ?
Overview: In this drama, three generations of the same family work together on a farm in rural France. Elderly Noel takes pride in having worked this land nearly all his life. His son Marc now carries most of the responsibilities of the farm (as well as the debts), and he's starting to buckle under the strain. And Marc's son Nicolas hasn't decided what to do with his life; he has little interest in farming, but he isn't sure where his real talents lie. One day, after helping his cows give birth to new calves, Marc gets word that he must destroy all his cattle to prevent the spread of Mad Cow Disease. This proves the last straw for Marc, and he commits suicide. Noel doesn't handle his son's death well and ends up in a retirement home, while Marc's wife gets a job as a cashier and Nicolas looks for work (with little success) while searching for a beautiful and mysterious woman to whom he gave a ride.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1999-09-07
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La présence des ombres
Overview: Madeleine, a young nurse, makes a fatal mistake that costs the life of the patient Léopold Sicard. She leaves the hospital after her colleague, Dr. Senez, writes a damning report against her. Some time later, the young psychologist Paul Forest receives at the end of one of his lectures a visit from his childhood friend, Roger, who tells him of his fears about the strange behavior of his wife, who is none other than Madeleine.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1995-11-17
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Farinet, Heroes and Outlaw
Overview: Back in Saxon after ten years of absence, Farinet discovers that the village is under the yoke of Gaspard de Sepibus, director of the casino and president of the commune. He starts making counterfeit money to pay off his father's debts and help the villagers send their children to school.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-02-19
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The Barber of Siberia
Overview: Douglas is a foreign entrepreneur, who ventures to Russia in 1885 with dreams of selling a new, experimental steam-driven timber harvester in the wilds of Siberia. Jane is his assistant. On her travels, she meets two men who would change her life forever: a handsome young cadet Andrej Tolstoy with whom she shares a fondness for opera, and the powerful General Radlov who is entranced by her beauty and wants to marry her.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1998-11-11
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Les amants du bagne
Overview: In 1923, Albert Londres, the famous reporter, travels to the French penal colony in French Guyana. First, officers try to hide the truth, but leaded by his own instinct he begins an investigation alongside the authorities. He didn't expect to find such inhuman conditions. He meets a prisoner, Camille, and his wife, Claudia, who's in French Guyana to find a way to free her husband. He decides to help her.
Genres: Drama TV Movie History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2004-09-17
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Qu'est-ce qu'on va faire de toi?
Overview: The young years of Michel Drucker.
Genres: History
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2012-12-19
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Murderous Maids
Overview: Based on the true story of two chambermaids of 1930s France who murdered their employer and her daughter.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2000-11-22
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Des croix sur la mer
Overview: On August 5, 1944, in Brittany, civilians fell into the hands of the German army. Among them, Jean Palu, a man like the others, who looks back on his life. Between failure and illness, he paints a bitter picture of his life.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2001-10-13
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La parité
Overview: A father who prides himself on being open-minded reacts rather badly when his wife gets involved in politics.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2003-09-17
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Me Against The World
Overview: Audrey is an unemployed single mother who lives with her 16-year-old son, Enzo. All is going well for Enzo, a bright kid who loves sports, until he takes a medical drug and is suddenly faced with a critical illness. Even though Audrey has never been a fighter, she discovers a new strength and embarks on a quest to uncover the truth about what happened with the help of pro-bono lawyer Master Tcheuffa.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2015-09-11
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La voyante
Overview: Véra Bellini fights with her psychic friends for their gift to be recognized by medicine. But her opponent Doctor Pelletier thoughly resists and will reveal a difficult secret about Vera's life.
Genres: Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2014-09-16
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L'enfant de l'aube
Overview: At the age of 16, Tristan falls in love with Camille in a sanatorium where they are both nursing their asthma. Camille eventually dies, leaving Tristan alone with their son Alexis. The young father is faced with a great responsibility and decides to take matters into his own hands by working and studying literature to write a novel. He falls in love with Gaëlle, his literature teacher.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2003-05-14
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Le Piano oublié
Overview: Julien is eleven years old and loves music. However, his father wants his son to eventually take over the family printing business. Julien's life changes the moment he discovers a forgotten piano in an old inn.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2007-04-12
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Louis, the Child King
Overview: January 1649: Since the death of his father, the young Louis XIV must undergo the hard apprenticeship of royal power. He must face the intrigues of the great ones of the kingdom who lead La Fronde, the agreements and the betrayals of those close to him. He is helped in this by his mother Anne of Austria and by the Cardinal Mazarin.
Genres: War Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1993-11-04
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Un ciel radieux
Overview: One night, Vincent, the father of a family and an overworked employee of an insurance company, loses control of his vehicle and strikes Leo, a young motorcycle, with full force. At the hospital, Vincent is declared dead and Leo is in a coma. When the latter comes out, it is the spirit of Vincent who took possession of the body of the young man. The opportunity for Vincent of a possible redemption to his relatives and an improbable and wonderful encounter, between life and death, with Leo. For the mind of the young man does not take long to resurface.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2017-10-06
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Un mauvais garçon
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Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2020-01-31
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la saison des immortelles
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Genres: Drama War TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2010-05-31
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Couchettes express
Overview: Antoine steward on the night train Paris-Venice. He must cards and identity documents of travelers in 'his' pick wagon. One day, a passenger, Jean-Bernard, for protection. He suffers from an unknown illness and he is not alone on the run for scholars who want to use him as a guinea pig, but also for Brandeburg, a trader in human organs.
Genres: Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1994-08-10
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Venice: Flamboyant to the End
Overview: No city in the world has sparked as many desires and fantasies as Venice. In the 18th century, its heady atmosphere of freedom produced an extraordinary cultural flowering. Famous artists like Vivaldi, Tiepolo father and son, Canaletto, Longhi, Guardi, Goldoni and Casanova hurled themselves into a giddy whirl of libertinage while leaving their stamp on the unique city. Then, in 1797, Venice surrendered to Napoleon Bonaparte. Carnival was over, and the masks came off. Venice: Flamboyant to the End transports us from canal to canal, palazzo to palazzo, bathing us in the magical atmosphere of this maze of a city and conjuring up the uniquely flamboyant Venice of the 18th century.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2017-01-01
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Les Montagnes bleues
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1999-03-15
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Death in the Soul
Overview: Marc Lagnier confesses to the murder of his adored son, but refuses to explain.
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2018-01-31
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Les Dessous de la passion
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Genres: TV Movie Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1991-01-01
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The Fugitives
Overview: Coming out from jail, Lucas has decided to change his life and behave like a good citizen. But when he is taken hostage in a bank by a hare-brained robber, no cops can believe he is not part of the action.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1986-12-17
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