Patrick Catalifo
Also Known As: Patrick Cathalifaud
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Saint-Denis, Seine-Saint-Denis, France
Birthday: July 01, 1957
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Lovers
Overview: A French woman falls in love with a Yugoslavian man, not realizing that he is an illegal immigrant.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-12-08
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L'Eté des hannetons
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Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2000-01-01
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The Cheat
Overview: In the docks of Bordeaux a well-known homosexual was murdered. Police Inspector Michel Verta starts investigating, when he falls in love with Bernard, a handsome young musician. This not only threatens his family life but also his integrity, for he is married with a child and Bernard is one of the murder suspects.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1984-08-08
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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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President
Overview: State secrets, sincere convictions, ecstatic crowds, a regal lifestyle, prying journalists, suspicious disappearances: what goes on behind the scenes in the halls of power or the daily life of a President.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2006-09-20
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Stand-by
Overview: A woman remains in an airport after her husband announces he wants a divorce, just before they are to board a plane for Argentina. Unwilling to turn to her sister and emotionally traumatized she makes the airport her home, making money by working as a prostitute. She strikes up a friendship with a café worker Marco.....
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-05-29
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Children of Chaos
Overview: Is there still a chance for Marie, an unwed young mother and a former drugs addicted prostitute, who is sent to a reformatory school?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1989-11-22
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The Pleasure Is All Mine
Overview: A beautiful, self-centered young woman's life turns upside down when she suddenly "loses her clitoris" (i.e. her ability to have an orgasm).
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2004-08-18
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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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Don't Let Me Die on a Sunday
Overview: Ben works in a morgue. Ben's wife left him and he is into various kinds of alternative sexuality. Teresa dies of an ecstasy overdose on the dance floor. When she is brought to the morgue, she is resurrected -how shall I say?- in Ben's arms (that part based on a true story). From this starting point, the film revolves around the interactions between them and Boris (orgy fan), Abdel (no sentimental life), Ducon (wants to kill himself), Nico (dying of AIDS), etc... A social study of the 90s with heavy references to sex and deat
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1998-09-13
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I Hate Love
Overview: Independent Parisian doctor Annie finds herself in an emotional tangle when she tries to help single-minded HIV-positive patient Laurent and embarks on a brief affair with conceited actor Richard.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1997-06-11
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A Gang Story
Overview: After growing up in a poor gypsy camp, Edmond Vidal, aka Momon, has retained a sense of family, unfailing loyalty and pride in his origins. Most of all, he has remained friends with Serge Suttel, with whom he first discovered prison life - for stealing cherries. The two of them inevitably got involved in organized crime. The team they formed, the Ganf Des Lyonnais, made them the most notorious armed robbers of the early 1970s. Their irresistible rise ended in 1974 with a spectacular arrest. Today, as he nears 60, Momon would like to forget that part of his life. He has found peace by retiring from the "business". He tends to his wife Janou, who suffered so in the past, and to his children and grandchildren, all of whom have great respect for this man of simple and universal values, so clear-headed and full of kindness. But then Serge Suttel, who has disowned nothing of his past, comes back into the picture.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2011-11-10
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Diên Biên Phu
Overview: Vietnam, 1954. An American reporter finds himself in the middle of the battle of Điện Biên Phủ, between the French army and the Vietminh.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1992-03-04
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Let Sleeping Cops Lie
Overview: This movie tells the story of a group of right-wing cops have begun carrying out vigilante justice on drug dealers and other crime figures who might otherwise avoid punishment for their misdeeds. Police inspector Grindel (Delon) understands the feelings which motivate these deeds, but does not approve. However, he is not highly motivated to put an end to the group's activities until it begins to appear that they are now attacking fellow cops for reasons which are unclear.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1988-11-10
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The Year After
Overview: Emmanuelle lives in the suburbs near a shopping mall. Since her father's death, she feels increasingly out of sync with the world around her. Her mother is distracted, high school bores her. She has just turned 17 and, this particular year, her life will take an entirely different turn.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2007-02-07
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Passés troubles
Overview: A former police officer, Marc Lorca, sees his wife die from a terrible car accident, which occurred while he was driving. Previously alcoholic, Lorca seems to collapse under the weight of guilt. But a former colleague, Marianne Duriez, recently become a police captain, shows him that the accident is not accounted by any negligence on his part. The survey of experts has indeed revealed that the steering axis of the vehicle was sabotaged. Gradually, the suspect list is expanding. Lorca realizes he knows nothing of the past of his deceased wife, who was obviously part of a small extreme left group.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-01-01
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Mordbüro
Overview: The neologistic title of this film translates as "Death Bureau," a secret vigilante organization used by ordinary working folk to rid the city of criminals through secret executions. Woodworker Leo Stoychev (Maurice Bennichou) goes to the organization for help because his boss Branco (Herve Briaux) won't repay a loan and may have had something to do with the accident that crippled Leo. The Mordburo is responsible for the death of a crooked lawyer, and Inspector Raoul (Patrick Catalifo) becomes suspicious.
Genres: Crime Drama Fantasy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1997-07-09
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Le Jour de la grenouille
Overview: A dedicated archaeologist, Anna Brahé, is stubbornly engaged in exploring an underground site, convinced that she will soon come across some important burial artefacts. Her superior is more sceptical and, his patience exhausted, sends Peter Morel, a renowned archaeologist, to make an assessment of Anna’s discoveries so far. Despite their differences Anna and Peter cannot help being drawn to one another as the site collapses around them...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2012-09-12
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Sand and Blood
Overview: Bullfighting, music, medicine, change, and homoerotic possibilities mix in this study of friendship. Francisco is a bullfighter on his way up, so focused even sex doesn't hold his interest. After a minor road accident, he meets a doctor, Manuel, who attends a bullfight, leaving early, retching. His wife, who is also his partner in a string quartet, worries about him: Manuel has a history of breakdown. Manuel, for his part, hates bullfighting and the memories it brings of Franco's Spain. His harsh views undermine Francisco's focus. He accompanies the young fighter to Spain for an important corrida. Will Francisco succeed? And what becomes of this friendship?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1988-05-26
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The Father
Overview: A staging of Florian Zeller's play "The Father" by Ladislas Chollat.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2014-07-24
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Jean Moulin, une affaire française
Overview: Drama set in the Second World War, focused on Jean Moulin, hero, martyr and symbol of the French resistance and the patriotism during the dark years of Nazi occupation.
Genres: History Drama War TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2003-01-06
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Mon amour
Overview: Three years after the wedding husband Richard starts to set up his wife, the teacher Marion, with his love and jealousy. He wants to have a baby too. Her best friend and the head of the school only see the nice husband. Antoine, the fiend's brother, is the only one believing her. Everyone else starts to believe that Marion is getting insane is about to become a mental case. Marion moves out, but it's not over. Richards terrorizes her and even starts to get violent. Her only solution is to move to Antoine but that doesn't make it only worse ...
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1997-03-10
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Magnificat
Overview: When an elderly priest died, the people in charge of his diocese discovered that it was a woman. Without anyone suspecting it, she had been practicing her vocation for years. Dismayed, the bishop decided to launch an investigation and asked the chancellor of the diocese to find out how, why and with what complicity such a deception was possible.
Genres: Drama Comedy Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2023-06-21
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Fracture
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Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2010-11-29
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J'ai peur d'oublier
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2011-09-21
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Maldonne
Overview: Juliette is a wheelchair-bound nine-year-old who sees life as one big card game. She thinks it is her fault that her father abandoned her mother, Sandrine, when she was diagnosed with myopathy as a child. So when Juliette and her mom move into a new house, she decides she' s personally going to find her a new man. Juliette picks the writer next door to be his mother's new deal. Unfortunately not only does this reluctant player prove to be a child- hating bachelor, but his brother happens to be Sandrine's employer and landlord - who wants more than just gratitude from her.
Genres: Romance Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2006-02-01
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Borderline
Overview: A police superintendent, after 25 years of a flawless professional career, is arrested by internal affairs for 4 days, before being indicted for criminal conspiracy, drug trafficking, theft and embezzlement by the magistrate in charge.
Genres: Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2014-10-05
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La Source des Sarrasins
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2002-05-20
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Chaos technique
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1998-03-08
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Mister V.
Overview: Lucas is a young scientist obsessed with the analysis of movement: that of the horses he studies in his laboratory, that of the clappers he practices as an amateur. His professional and sentimental life seems like a stalemate when his brother Luigi, a passionate horse breeder and little crook,who is accidentally killed by a stallion, Mister V. He knows that the animal is the subject of an insurance scam and must be shot against the will of his brother, who had seen in him a future champion. He then decides to take care of the farm and his sister-in-law, for whom he has always had an attraction. Tugged between his feelings, Luigi's memory and the pressures of the former crook partner, he will draw strength and power from the murderous stallion whose savagery fascinates him.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2003-11-12
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Carbone
Overview: In danger of losing his business, Anthony Roca, an ordinary man, develops a scam that will become the heist of the century. Overtaken by the crime, he will have to deal with betrayal, murder and settling.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2017-11-01
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C'est pas de l'amour
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Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2014-02-05
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Bérénice
Overview: A staging of Jean Racine's play "Bérénice" by Jean-Louis Martinelli.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2010-10-19
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L'Homme de ta vie
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2014-08-07
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L'Onzième Commandement
Overview: The perpetrator of a murder refuses to denounce himself, which results in the conviction of one of his friends. On leaving prison, 20 years later, he goes in search of his former boyfriend.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1998-09-15
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Trois jours en juin
Overview: June 1940. While the Germans advance inexorably on the French territory, the army is in full debacle. While the top brass played "sauve qui peut", a handful of French soldiers desperately resisted on the banks of the Loire. On one side, a company of Senegalese riflemen and a few French soldiers, on the other side, the armored tanks of the Wehrmarcht. An act with no real future, it was considered heroic by some and useless by others. But for their leader, Henri Dragance, there was no alternative but to resist or die.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2005-09-19
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L'Oiseau rare
Overview: A woman in her forties takes stock of her past years. She has led a full life, with lots of outings with her friends. She has certainly not had time to be bored and has built the life that suits her. Professionally, she has an interesting job and her friends find her beautiful and funny. The only shadow in this almost idyllic picture is the absence of a child. Unfortunately, she has not yet found the rare pearl who would be a perfect father for her descendants. Determined to remedy the situation, she sets out to find the ideal man. Several male representatives are on the starting line.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2001-05-14
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Un enfant
Overview: Adrien is twenty years old. He lives alone with his father, a famous actor with an overbearing personality. Adrien's summer in Paris is a succession of small failures and disillusions. More than ever, Adrien is a young man struggling with his self-confidence and his future... Unless he eliminates his father, who he considers the cause of all his setbacks.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2019-12-12
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Traquée
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Genres: Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2002-01-01
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Guy Môquet, un amour fusillé
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Genres: War Drama TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2008-10-21
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Rogue City
Overview: Caught in the crosshairs of police corruption and Marseille’s warring gangs, a loyal cop must protect his squad by taking matters into his own hands.
Genres: Crime Thriller Action Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2020-10-30
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Le Viol
Overview: 21 August 1974. In Marseille, two Belgian tourists, Nicole and Malia, are savagely attacked and raped by three men. Their attackers claim that the women consented and are allowed to remain free. Though their friends and family advise them to forget the ordeal, Nicole and Malia instead decide to fight. Helped by their lawyer, Gisèle Halimi, they request that the attackers be judged at the assize court. On 8 May 1978, after a long battle, they finally obtain justice. A trial which made history as until then rape had been considered simply as a misdemeanor, whereas now it became a crime.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2017-09-19
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Le Choix de Macha
Overview: An emancipated young woman has a string of one-night stands, out of fear of commitment. Until the day she meets Eduardo... She confides her feelings to her grandmother in the greatest secrecy, but, by mistake, the latter reveals the love relationship that her granddaughter has with her new lover. The situation suddenly becomes complicated.
Genres: Drama Family Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2004-01-21
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La France qui se lève tôt
Overview: Souleymane has been living and working in France for years, with no residence permit. One day, his boss reports him. A musical about illegal immigrants.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2011-08-23
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