Also Known As: Isabelle Yasmine Adjani, イザベル・ヤスミン・アジャーニ, อิซาแบล อัดจานี, ایزابل آجانی
Biography: Isabelle Yasmine Adjani (born June 27, 1955) is a French film actress and singer. Adjani has appeared in 30 films since 1970. She holds the record for most César Award for Best Actress with five, for Possession (1981), One Deadly Summer (1983), Camille Claudel (1988), Queen Margot (1994) and Skirt Day (2009). She was also given a double Cannes Film Festival Best Actress Award in 1981. She also received two Academy Award nominations for Best Actress. She performs in French, English, and German.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Paris, France
Birthday: June 27, 1955
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Gender: Female
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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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Overview: The Driver specializes in driving getaway cars for robberies. His exceptional talent has prevented him from being caught yet. After another successful flight from the police a self-assured detective makes it his primary goal to catch the Driver. He promises pardons to a gang if they help to convict him in a set-up robbery. The Driver seeks help from The Player to mislead the detective.
Genres: Crime Thriller Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-06-08
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Overview: Adèle Hugo, daughter of renowned French writer Victor Hugo, falls in love with British soldier Albert Pinson while living in exile off the coast of England. Though he spurns her affections, she follows him to Nova Scotia and takes on the alias of Adèle Lewly. Albert continues to reject her, but she remains obsessive in her quest to win him over.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1975-10-08
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Overview: Fred, a raffish safe blower, takes refuge in the Paris Metro after being chased by the henchmen of a shady businessman from whom he has just stolen some documents. While hiding out in the back rooms and conduits of the Metro, Fred encounters a subterranean society of eccentric characters and petty criminals.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1985-04-10
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Overview: Paris, Kingdom of France, August 18, 1572. To avoid the outbreak of a religious war, the Catholic princess Marguerite de Valois, sister of the feeble King Charles IX, marries the Huguenot King Henry III of Navarre.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1994-05-13
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Overview: The wife and mistress of a cruel school master collaborate in a carefully planned and executed scheme to murder him. The plan goes well until the body, which has been strategically dumped, disappears. The psychological strain starts to weigh on the two women when a retired police investigator begins looking into the man's disappearance on a whim.
Genres: Mystery Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-03-22
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Overview: A real estate agent leaves behind his beautiful wife to go to Transylvania to visit the mysterious Count Dracula and formalize the purchase of a property in Wismar.
Genres: Drama Horror
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1979-01-17
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Overview: A young woman left her family for an unspecified reason. The husband determines to find out the truth and starts following his wife. At first, he suspects that a man is involved. But gradually, he finds out more and more strange behaviors and bizarre incidents that indicate something more than a possessed love affair.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1981-05-27
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Overview: The life of Camille Claudel, a French sculptor who becomes the apprentice of Auguste Rodin and later his lover. Her passion for her art and Rodin drive her further away from reason and rationality.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1988-12-07
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Overview: A quiet and inconspicuous man rents an apartment in Paris where he finds himself drawn into a rabbit hole of dangerous paranoia.
Genres: Thriller Horror Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-05-26
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Overview: In spring 1976, a 19-year-old beauty, her German-born mother, and her crippled father move to the town of a firefighter nicknamed Pin-Pon. Everyone notices the provocative Eliane. She singles out Pin-Pon and soon is crying on his shoulder (she's myopic and hates her reputation as a dunce and as easy); she moves in with him, knits baby clothes, and plans their wedding. Is this love or some kind of plot? She asks Pin-Pon's mother and aunt about the piano in the barn: who delivered it on a November night in 1955? Why does she want to know, and what does it have to do with her mother's sorrows, her father's injury, this quick marriage, and the last name on her birth certificate?
Genres: Mystery Drama Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1983-05-11
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Overview: Adrien, an attractive dancer whose career was shattered by a motorcycle accident, squanders his youth in idleness. His life changes when he meets Margot, who lives off scams and amorous manipulations.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2022-11-01
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Overview: Two terrible lounge singers get booked to play a gig in a Moroccan hotel but somehow become pawns in an international power play between the CIA, the Emir of Ishtar, and the rebels trying to overthrow his regime.
Genres: Comedy Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-05-15
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Overview: When the long awaited departure day arrives, le Petit Bougnat, a child coal merchant eager to go to summer camp, realizes that his mother forgot to register his name with the rest of the group. Desperate to join them, the young coal merchant tries to find a way to integrate himself with the other campers. On the opposite end of the spectrum is Rose (Isabelle Adjani), who refuses to join the kids and goes so far as to run away from the bus. While the coal merchant is busy avoiding authorities who want to remove him from the rest of the group, Rose continues to sulk and search for a way back home. Despite her initial doubtfulness, Rose eventually comes to see the charms of the camp, and walks away from an offer to leave.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1970-05-06
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Overview: On the eve of World War II four Parisians cope with the impending invasion of their city by German forces. While the French government braces for impact, the intersected lives of a young writer, a vain movie star, a French politician and a young scientist are examined as they attempt to deal with war and evade German spies.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2003-04-16
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Overview: Anna is a psychologist undertaking research about famous suicidal women. She takes a specific interest in the case of Antonieta Rivas Mercado, who killed herself in 1931 in the Cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1982-10-21
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Overview: A P.I. is obsessed with a cute woman, who seduces and kills rich men around W. Europe.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1983-03-09
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Overview: Serge Pilardosse has just turned 60. He has worked since the age of 16, never unemployed, never sick. But the hour of retirement has come, and it is disillusionment: he is missing points, some employers having forgotten to declare it! Pushed by Catherine, his wife, he gets on his old motorcycle from the 70s, a "Mammut" which earned him his nickname, and sets off in search of his pay slips. During his journey, he rediscovers his past and his quest for administrative documents soon becomes incidental...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2010-04-21
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Overview: Peter von Kant, a successful, famous director, lives with his assistant Karl, whom he likes to mistreat and humiliate. Through the great actress Sidonie, he meets and falls in love with Amir, a handsome young man of modest means. He offers to share his apartment and help Amir break into the world of cinema. Several months later, Amir becomes a star. But as soon as he acquires fame, he breaks up with Peter, leaving him alone to face himself.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2022-07-06
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Overview: A teacher, driven to exasperation from insults and insubordination, takes her class hostage.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2008-11-09
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Overview: A woman falls in love with the man who killed her former boyfriend.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1976-12-08
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Overview: When her husband's arrest leaves her penniless, a woman accepts an invitation to move in with a strange couple.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1981-10-25
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Overview: In the nineteenth century, Adolphe, a young man of twenty four carefree years, plans to obtain favors Ellenore, a beautiful woman of thirty years, much more vulnerable. This yields to his advances and he disclaims all. But already, Adolphe loves less. Yet the idea of the pain is unbearable.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2002-10-30
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Overview: Three days in the lives of six friends who are nearly 30 years old, live in Grenoble, and have a rock band called the "Why Notes?". They're to play in Paris at Charles's school reunion. In getting to Paris and back, the characters interact with Aimee's ex-husband and her abrasive, cruel ex-mentor, Louise's would-be lover who turns out to have a husband, Mickey's long-time lover and her children, Bertrand's Germanic wife and their children who speak no French, and Frederic's distant mother. The band also meets Clara, a mercurial free spirit who beguiles Bertrand, then Mickey, then takes up with someone else in the band.
Genres: Music Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1981-01-14
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Overview: Victor Valance, an absent father and gambler, works with shady casino operations abroad. When he returns to Paris in need of money, he plans to take advantage that Pauline, his eldest daughter now fully responsible for the whole family, has begun to work for the Ministry of Finance. Pauline thwarts his new projects but when she realizes gangsters are looking for Victor she will put her life at risk to help him and save their family.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1982-01-13
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Overview: In a small presbytery in Yorkshire, England, living under the watchful eyes of their aunt and father, a strict Anglican pastor, the Bronte sisters write their first works and quickly become literary sensations.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1979-05-09
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Overview: A Parisian teacher loses his cool when his teenage daughter tells him she plans to drop out of school and move in with her boyfriend.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1974-10-23
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Overview: Monsieur Cinema, a hundred years old, lives alone in a large villa. His memories fade away, so he engages a young woman to tell him stories about all the movies ever made.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1995-01-25
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Overview: Following a series of unsolved robberies, the authorities decide to give carte blanche to commander Clara Damico to neutralize a particularly organized gang. Manual Makarov, a well-known figure in organized crime, is currently serving a sentence of twelve years in prison. Commander Damico promises him freedom in exchange for his cooperation. He refuses. There is no other solution, she is obliged to compel him by force.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2011-10-26
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Overview: A mysterious woman, dressed in black and carrying a small suitcase, arrives in Nice and tries in vain to get a job in a luxury goods shop. She ends up in a plush hotel where a solitary middle-aged man, engages her to be his companion. They introduce themselves - she is Charlotte, he is Paul. Both are reluctant to talk about their past; both need someone to make their present predicament more tolerable. Unbeknownst to either of them, Charlotte is being followed by another man, who seems intent on revenge...
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2002-04-17
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Overview: Harpagon, a miserly bourgeois, wishes to marry the young Mariane and marry his daughter Elise to Lord Anselme. He does not know that Cléante, his son, is in love with the young Mariane and that his daughter Elise loves a penniless young man, Valère, whom he has just hired as a steward.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1974-01-01
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Overview: Returning to Paris, a man moves through memories of his past and surreal fragments of the present, searching for connection with his estranged father. On his journey, he meets a French-Algerian woman. As their intimacy grows, he is confronted with his shame and fears while exploring his lost Arab identity… Behind Paris is Algiers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2023-08-02
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2022-03-24
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Overview: David is an occupational therapist who has recently arrived at a clinic for wealthy patients. One morning, he is entrusted with Madame Hansen-Bergmann, a wealthy woman suffering from transient amnesia and post-traumatic stress , with the mission of taking her to the nearby village to buy a new pair of shoes. Against his will, he embarks with her on a breathtaking chase during which he discovers the past life of his patient and the origins of the illness from which she suffers.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2012-08-29
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Genres: Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2011-03-02
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Overview: In this erstwhile comedy, Penelope (Isabelle Adjani) is already sufficiently unsettled by the fact that she is no longer a top model, and must cast around for another occupation. When her boyfriend leaves her, she becomes quite hysterical, conjuring up schemes for revenge, contemplating suicide, and so on. These dramatics eventually exasperate her best friend Sophie (Clementine Celarie) so much that she contemplates killing Penelope, her ex-boyfriend, or the two of them together, just to stop the whining.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1993-05-26
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Overview: Akash and Ishkq meet on a train from Rome to Paris and spend a romantic evening in the city.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 2013-05-24
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Overview: In the forest, knight-errant Hans meets and falls in love with Ondine, a water-sprite who is attracted to the world of mortal man.
Genres: Drama Fantasy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-01-01
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Genres: Documentary TV Movie History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2023-06-02
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Overview: Short directed by Agnès Varda in 1986 on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the French Cinematheque.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1986-08-27
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Overview: A story about 11 girls living in Paris. Each of them has its own problems: career, love life, children. Every girl has their complexes and virtues. They always look elegant, hiding their inner feelings. Will they reach all the goals and overcome all their difficulties?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2014-06-04
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Overview: Faustine suffers the wounds of first love. During a summer when she is staying with her grandmother, she comes to know the nearby neighbors. Two brothers live in the large house. One is divorced and one has recently remarried, both of them live there with their teenaged and adult children. Though the boys of the household are drawn to Faustine, she grows ever more smitten with the divorced older man...
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1972-01-12
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Overview: Broadcast from 1977 to 1987 on FR3, every Sunday morning, for 1h30, Mosaïque is a variety show with a set where music groups from the countries of origin of immigration perform, and which broadcasts reports on these countries and on immigrants who live in France. When it was created, it aimed to promote the cultures of origin of immigrants, but also to make them better known to the rest of the population. However, the program was never financed by public television which considers that it was aimed at a specific audience and was therefore not part of a public service mission. It received financial support from the Ministry of Labor, through its subsidy to the National Office for the Cultural Promotion of Immigrants, ONPCI (later becoming Information Culture and Immigration, ICEI, in 1977, then Agency for the Development of Intercultural Relations , ADRI). , in 1982).
Genres: Family Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1976-12-26
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Overview: Tired of life on the run, a pro thief decides to retire — but not before one easy last job with her partner in crime and a feisty new getaway driver.
Genres: Action Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2023-11-01
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Overview: Franck shows up in a gossip magazine photo behind a brawling TV star at a football match.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1998-04-29
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Overview: Violette and François are a couple with a child. As they cannot lead a good life with odd jobs, François starts to steal.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1977-03-17
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Overview: In May 1974, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing became President of the Republic and wanted to bring about a new era of modernity. One of his first decisions was to break up the ORTF with the creation of three new television channels: TF1, Antenne 2 and FR3. Three new public channels but autonomous and competing. It is a race for the audience which is engaged then, and from now on the channels will make the war! This competition will give birth to a real golden age for television programs, with variety shows in the forefront. The stars of the song are going to invade the living rooms of the French for their biggest pleasure. This unedited documentary tells the story of the metamorphosis of this television of the early 1970s, between freedom of tone, scandals, political intrigues and programs that have become mythical.
Genres: History Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2022-01-07
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Overview: Late 1950s in France. One woman, two men. She, Ève Faugère, a glamorous diva at the peak of her career. The man, her husband, Maurice Faugère, an immense author who made her and propelled her for years to the firmament of the song. And finally the lover, Jean Leprat, her pianist who adores her and burns with passion for her. The atrocious poison of jealousy will consume them to the point of tragedy, the trap of a Machiavellian plot will take them all three. And she, the other one, the so pretty Florence, so fresh. This ambitious young singer, ready to do anything to overthrow the one she admires, is she not also caught in the trap of a diabolical game that is beyond her? Where does the danger come from? Who is orchestrating this fatal merry-go-round engraved in the vinyl of the brand new singles that brings its poisonous message every day? Who will die? Who will survive?
Genres: TV Movie Thriller Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2023-08-26
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Overview: Isabelle and Maxime are a pair of lighthearted lovers -- that is, until Isabelle gets the itch for motherhood. When she confesses her desire for a child, Maxime panics. As a cartoonist by trade he is far from financially stable, so he outright rejects the idea of parenthood. What follows is a roller-coaster romance full of recriminations and reconciliations, until Maxime must ultimately decide whether his fear of becoming a parent is a reason to leave.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1981-08-05
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Overview: Werner Herzog discusses the making of "Nosferatu" on set.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-10-06
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Overview: A rookie flight attendant is caught up in a heist plan aboard the plan.
Genres: Comedy Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2025-04-02
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Overview: Documentary that retraces Isabelle Adjani's life and career.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2013-01-01
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Overview: Isabelle Adjani is Carole Matthieu – a workplace physician employed in a call centre who has become emotionally involved in the suffering of her humiliated co-workers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2016-08-25
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Overview: A dreamlike adaptation of the legend of Ariadne and the Minotaur.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1974-12-01
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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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Overview: A walk through the career of French filmmaker André Téchiné, from his own point of view and that of those who worked with him: Catherine Deneuve, Daniel Auteuil, Emmanuelle Béart, Juliette Binoche and Sandrine Kiberlain, among others.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2019-04-03
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2017-04-19
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2015-10-04
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Overview: The life of the Tibetan people, forty years after the Chinese invasion. Filmed in Amdo and Kham, regions forgotten by the world and absolutely forbidden to filmmakers and journalists until now, this is an exceptional document on the most mysterious civilization of humanity, now threatened with death.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1990-10-10
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Overview: The story of the gold-plated statuette that became the film industry's most coveted prize, AND THE OSCAR GOES TO... traces the history of the Academy itself, which began in 1927 when Louis B. Mayer, then head of MGM, led other prominent members of the industry in forming this professional honorary organization. Two years later the Academy began bestowing awards, which were nicknamed "Oscar," and quickly came to represent the pinnacle of cinematic achievement.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-02-01
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Overview: An intimate portrait, in his own words, of the Indian writer Salman Rushdie, author of The Satanic Verses (1988), thirty years after the fatwa uttered by the Iranian Ayatollah Khomeini: his youth in multicultural Bombay, his life in England, his many years of forced hiding, his thoughts on President Trump's United States of America.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2019-01-08
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Overview: The naked floodgates burst open in the Saucy 70s and the 80s continued the trend. Welcome to the 80s, Jerry Falwell, Reagan conservatism, VCRs, pay tv, big hair and AIDS. Drive-ins and grindhouses were replaced by multiplex theaters, but the VCR and Pay TV came to the rescue with a flood of direct to video sexy features. Remember trying to watch scrambled Pay TV looking for some skin?
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-10-26
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Overview: Documentary featuring footage from six decades of Cannes Film Festivals.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-04-15
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Overview: A New York taxi driver stalks a beautiful actress attending the Cannes Film Festival, which coincides with a series of violent killings of the lady's friends.
Genres: Horror Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-08-12
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Overview: Arnolphe plans to marry Agnès, his ward, a naive and submissive young girl, whom he keeps recluse in a convent. His plans are threatened when Horace confesses his feelings for Agnès.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1973-05-23
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Overview: Commissioned to mark the 60th anniversary of the Cannes Film Festival, "To Each His Own Cinema" brought together 33 of the world's pre-eminent filmmakers to produce short pieces exploring the multifarious facets of cinema and their perspective on the state of their chosen artform in the early 21st century.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2007-10-31
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Overview: To escape his life of crime, a Paris drug dealer takes on one last job involving Spain, unhinged gangsters, his longtime crush and his scheming mother.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2018-08-15
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Overview: Seville, 1766. Count Almaviva falls in love with a young woman called Rosina, who lives under the tutelage of the old doctor Bartolo. Thanks to the help of his servant Figaro, the count seduces Rosina and marries her. Three years later, Count Almaviva returned to being the libertine he was.
Genres: Drama TV Movie History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2008-02-07
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Overview: Provocative, misunderstood, unloved, cynical poet... Serge Gainsbourg as seen by the women in his life: Juliette Gréco, Vanessa Paradis, Jane Birkin, Brigitte Bardot, Régine, France Gall, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Bambou... An intimate portrait of the man who could not live without them.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2010-01-18
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