Malik Zidi
Also Known As: 맬릭 지디
Biography: Malik Zidi was born in Châtenay-Malabry to a Kabyle Algerian father and a Breton mother. He spent his formative years in Saint-Maur-des-Fossés, a suburb of Paris. Zidi abandoned his conventional studies early to concentrate on a career in comedy. Following courses at the Théâtre Véronique Nordey, and the Théâtre de Proposition in Paris, he briefly studied acrobatics and mime at the Théâtre de la Piscine and cinema at the Studio Pygmalion. Zidi made his first film appearance in the 1998 Sébastien Lifshitz-directed Les Corps ouverts. In 2000, Zidi was chosen by director François Ozon to appear as the troubled, lovelorn, bisexual youth Franz in the Teddy Award-winning film Water Drops on Burning Rocks (French:Gouttes d'eau sur pierres brûlantes). The film was based on the play Tropfen auf heisse Steine by German film director and screenwriter Rainer Werner Fassbinder. The film is a four-part comedy-drama shot entirely on one set and featuring only four actors: Zidi, Bernard Giraudeau, Ludivine Sagnier and American actress Anna Levine. Zidi's role in Water Drops on Burning Rocks garnered him his first of four César Award nominations. Malik Zidi followed up with roles in the 2002 Antoine Santana-directed Un moment de bonheur (English: One Moment of Happiness) opposite Isild Le Besco, earning his second César Award nomination for Most Promising Actor. In 2004, he appeared in the André Téchiné-directed romantic drama Les Temps qui changent (English release title: Changing Times) as Sami, the bisexual son of Cécile (portrayed by Catherine Deneuve), who visits his parents in Tangiers so that he may visit his Moroccan boyfriend. The film also starred actor Gérard Depardieu and was nominated for a Satellite Award. Zidi received his third César Award nomination. In 2006, Zidi appeared in the Emmanuel Bourdieu-drama Les Amitiés maléfiques (English release title: Poison Friends). The film was showcased at the Cannes Film Festival and Bourdieu received the Critics Week Grand Prize and the Grand Golden Rail. The film also won the SACD Screenwriting Award and Zidi was once again nominated for a César Award, winning the Award for Most Promising Actor 2007. In addition to film, Zidi has appeared in numerous television roles. In 2020, Zidi penned his first novel L'ombre du soir, which was published by Éditions Anne Carrière.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Saint Maur des Fossés, France
Birthday: February 14, 1975
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Gender: Male
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Looking for Cheyenne
Overview: Cheyenne, a journalist, decides to leave Paris after being laid off and to settle down in the middle of nowhere, far from the society she hates. The trouble is that she leaves Sonia, her true love, behind. The latter, a teacher who loves her job, refuses to give up everything - including her comfort - to follow her. Sonia makes all the efforts in the world to forget Cheyenne, whether in the arms of Pierre, a charming anarchist, or in those of Béatrice, a gay woman who soon proves perverse and dangerous, only to realize that her heart belongs to Cheyenne and nobody else.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2005-04-01
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Water Drops on Burning Rocks
Overview: In 1970s Germany, Léopold, a 50-year-old businessman, picks up and seduces 20-year-old Franz, who swiftly moves into his apartment. The dynamic between them intensifies with the sudden arrival of their ex-girlfriends.
Genres: Drama Romance Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2000-03-15
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The Soul Eater
Overview: When the disappearance of children and bloody murders multiply in a small mountain village, an old legend shrouded in sulphur reappears... Commander Guardiano and Captain of the Gendarmerie De Rolan are forced to join forces to uncover the truth.
Genres: Thriller Horror Crime Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2024-04-24
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Le baiser
Overview: A man speaks to a woman who only wants one thing: to kiss him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2008-08-29
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Pardon My French
Overview: Nathalie is being stalked. By an interesting, intelligent young woman called Anaïs, who makes quite an impression on Nathalie, whose real name is Célimène and who happens to be a writer experiencing a crisis.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2009-03-25
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Almost Peaceful
Overview: Set during the largely unexplored period immediately following World War II, the film follows a group of mostly Jewish Parisians who attempt to restart their lives and rekindle their capacity for happiness in the shadow of unspeakable horrors. Variety called it "thoroughly charming. Sad, gentle, and funny in the best French tradition of high quality cinema." A film by Marcelo Gomes
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2002-12-18
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Changing Times
Overview: In Tangiers where he traveled for his work, a man finds the woman he loved, and attempts to revive their romance though it ended some 30 years earlier.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2004-12-08
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Jacquou the Rebel
Overview: In 1815, young Jacquou lives an idyllic peasant life with his parents in the Périgord region of France. But one day, his childhood happiness is cruelly ended when his father is arrested, after a dispute with the arrogant Count de Nansac. With both his parents dead, Jacquou is adopted by Bonal, a kind priest, under whose influence he grows into an assured, morally upright young man. Now an adult, Jacquou has one desire. To repay the Count de Nansac for the evil he once inflicted on his parents...
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2007-01-17
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The Great Meaulnes
Overview: A coming-of-age story set in France in the years leading up to World War I. Two teenage boys experience love, loss, anguish and betrayal in a rural setting of great beauty.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2006-10-04
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Un moment de bonheur
Overview: Philippe, 25 ans, débarque un matin à Arcachon, où vit sa soeur. C'est un jeune homme qui n'a pas d'attache et à qui on se confie facilement. Il est saisonnier et travaille dans la restauration. Betty, 20 ans, est une jeune mère pleine de vie et de tendresse pour son fils, Damien, 5 ans. Ils vivent encore dans la cellule familiale et les relations entre Betty et son père sont conflictuelles. Damien est perturbé par cette ambiance. Sa mère trouve du travail, quitte le foyer familial et acquiert de l'indépendance. Betty et Philippe se croiseront...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-03-06
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What's Wrong with My Family?
Overview: Céline and Mathieu, a couple in their thirties who are farmers, are fighting relentlessly to adopt a child without any progress in their file. One day, they meet Darius and Julien, a homosexual couple who have started the process of GPA in Canada. The idea made its way, why not them? They ask themselves many questions, they hesitate. But despite their family's hostility to surrogate motherhood, they decided to go ahead.
Genres: TV Movie Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2022-10-11
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The Queen of Clubs
Overview: Aurélien and Argine have never been able to leave each other. Brother and sister, they have always lived together. Aurélien secretly makes ends meet for them by dealing in stolen metal. One night, his accomplice Simon suddenly arrives.
Genres: Thriller Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2010-01-13
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My Children Are Different
Overview: A classical musician demands that his beautiful daughter and his young son follow in his footsteps despite their personal wishes.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2003-07-23
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Rebellion
Overview: April 1988, Ouvéa Island, New Caledonia. 30 gendarmes are taken hostage by a group of Kanak freedom fighters. 300 soldiers are sent from France to re-establish order. 2 men confront each other: Philippe Legorjus, chief of the terrorist squad, and Alphonse Dianou, head of the kidnappers. Through their shared values, they will attempt to make discussion triumph. But, in the middle of a presidential election, when the stakes are political, order isn't always dictated by morality. A violent and troubling epic that marks the return of Mathieu Kassovitz in front and behind the camera.
Genres: Drama Action History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2011-11-16
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Mysteries of Lisbon
Overview: The tragic story of the many lives of Father Dinis, his dark origins and his pious works, and the different fates of all those who, trapped in a sinister web of love, hate and crime, cross paths with him through years of adventure and misfortune in the convulsed Europe of the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2010-10-20
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Poison Friends
Overview: A group of college students are duped by a charming pathological liar.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2006-09-27
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Open Bodies
Overview: Born to a North African father and a French mother, 18-year-old Parisian high school senior Rémi works part-time in an Arab grocery store while studying management and commerce. He responds to a school ad seeking subjects for a film, and Marc, who placed the ad, auditions Rémi by filming an interview with him. Rémi and Marc wind up in bed, and Rémi soon has other sexual experiences – with a guy in a men's room and with a young woman who grabs him while she's dancing in the street.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1998-06-23
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Sons of Ramses
Overview: Thirty-four year old Ramsès has established himself as a clairvoyant in La Goutte d’Or, Paris. A shrewd manipulator and something of a poet, he built a sound business consoling people. Elusive and dangerous youths, freshly arrived from the streets of Tangier, disrupt his business and the whole neighbourhood. Until the day Ramses has an actual vision.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2023-03-01
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Amaro amore
Overview: Love is a bitter history of formation and growth. The discovery of the world. The self-discovery. The restless overcoming fragile shadow line of the first youth marks the path of three boys from different worlds who meet in heaven and ancestral magic of the islands. Romance of André, Camille and Santino end up exploding inside the frame closed the island of Salina, surrounded by a sea that seems to contain the memory of legends, rumors and atavistic prejudices. Stands out in this scenario of green and blue, the figure of Assunta (Angela Molina), mother Mediterranean, passionate, possessive and mysterious.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2013-05-24
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The Gordji Affair
Overview: Wahid Gordji is an Iranian diplomat suspected of the attack at 'rue de Rennes'. Yet, he is ultimately absolved when French hostages in Lebanon are released. Political scandal in France: there is suspicion that the government had intervened in the case and to have exchanged the liberation of the hostages with that of Gordj. Discredited, the judge commits suicide. Mitterand and Chirac keep lobbing the responsibility of the case to each other.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2012-02-11
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The Color of Kings
Overview: Adel is a young aircraft co-pilot. Following a assault he may lose is eye.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2020-09-06
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Berthe Morisot
Overview: At 25, Berthe dreams of making a living from her painting, never to marry, and to always stay with her sister Edma. Her parents do not see things from the same angle. Then Berthe meets Edouard Manet, who takes an interest in this young artist apprentice whose face inspires him.
Genres: Drama TV Movie History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2012-09-13
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Quartier libre
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Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
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Wolfy: The Incredible Secret
Overview: Loulou is a wolf. Tom is a rabbit. As curious as it may seem, Loulou and Tom have been inseparable since they were little. Now in their teens, they live the easy life in the Land of the Rabbits. But Loulou, who thought he was an orphan, learns that his bohemian mother is alive. The two friends set out to find her in the principality of Wolfenberg, the Land of the Wolves. They arrive in the middle of the Meat-eaters' Festival, a yearly get together for the world's great carnivores. Will Loulou and Tom's friendship survive in the land where herbivores always end up as the main course? What incredible secret lies behind Loulou's birth?
Genres: Animation Family
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2013-12-18
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Que demande le peuple
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Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fr
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Clara
Overview: A look at the lives of 19th-century composers Clara and Robert Schumann.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2008-11-07
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Place Vendôme
Overview: The story of a woman that remained distracted for a long time from her life, from the passions that made her feel alive. The importance of true love is compared with the material value of diamonds. Only one truly lasts forever. She's got to find the thing that values most for her, the thing that gives psychical stability and real happiness again to her life.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1998-10-07
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Lines of Wellington
Overview: Passionate romance, brutal treachery, and selfless nobility are set against the background of Napoleon’s 1810 invasion of Portugal.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2012-10-04
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La mort n'oublie personne
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Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2009-05-05
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Old Goriot
Overview: A poor but ambitious young man arrives in Paris and settles down in the boarding house run by Madame Vauquer. He soon gets to know the guests: Victorine Taillefer, a young lady her rich father refuses to recognize; Horace Bianchon, a medical student; Monsieur Vautrin, a mysterious and disconcerting man; Goriot, a rich merchant who spent all his fortune for his daughters, Delphine and Anastasie, to make a rich marriage. Eugène becomes friends with Goriot but while the former, thanks to his cousin Madame de Beauséant, is introduced in high society, Goriot, both exploited and scoffed at by his daughters, continues his descent into hell.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2004-11-09
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Incarnation
Overview: Lou has a deformity that appears to delay puberty. Between her parents, her friends, and the eruption of "pirates of the flesh", Lou is determined to become a "real girl", in vain. So Lou will end up freeing himself from human genres…
Genres: Fantasy
Original Language: fr
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The Assistant
Overview: With his wife in labor, father-to-be Thomas (Malik Zidi) speeds to the hospital, and in the process, accidentally kills a young man on the road. That death sets into motion events that will change everyone’s lives forever, including the young man’s mother Marie-France (Nathalie Baye), who cannot recover from the trauma. Nine years later, Marie-France takes a job as Thomas’s secretary without him knowing about her connection to his past. As Marie-France’s maternal rage reaches tragic proportions, she insinuates herself into his life, his work and his family in this classic thriller à la Hitchcock.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2015-09-02
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Made in France
Overview: Sam, a freelance journalist, decides to investigate the growing phenomenon of disaffected youth joining extremist groups. He infiltrates a group of four young people who have been tasked with the creation of a jihadist cell and whose mission is to destabilise the city centre of Paris.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2015-10-04
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Daguerrotype
Overview: An aging photographer's obsession with an early form of photography draws his assistant and daughter into a work of mystery.
Genres: Drama Fantasy Horror Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2016-10-15
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Miroir, mon beau miroir
Overview: Marie-Line, 60 years old, continuously strives to fend off the effects of aging and lives with the obsession of recovering the missing panel of a painting that once belonged to her family. She shares her life between her daughter-in-law, Marion, and Marion's son, Ludo. The young woman lives in the house that Marie-Line just inherited after the mysterious disappearance of her husband. Problems begin when Marion becomes the victim of a series of incidents.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2008-06-27
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The Sky of the Centaur
Overview: A french engineer travels in a ship that stops in Buenos Aires, where he must deliver a packet to a mysterious man that is to hard to catch. He then must pursuit him in a labyrinthic city.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2015-03-16
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Gauguin: Voyage to Tahiti
Overview: In 1891, the French painter Paul Gauguin leaves Paris and travels to Tahiti to renew his art as a free man, far from the European artistic conventionalism. On his journey of discovery, he faces solitude and disease, but he also knows the beauty of wild nature and the love of Tehura, a young native girl who becomes his wife and model.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2017-09-20
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Ex
Overview: Six people struggling with their relationship, or lack thereof, cross paths with their respective exes — and discover they might still harbor feelings for each other.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2009-02-06
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Marie Curie
Overview: The most turbulent five years in the life of a genius woman: Between 1905, where Marie Curie comes with Pierre Curie to Stockholm to be awarded the Nobel Prize for the discovery of the radioactivity, and 1911, where she receives her second Nobel Prize, after challenging France's male-dominated academic establishment both as a scientist and a woman.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2016-12-01
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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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Her Mother, the Whore
Overview: After Coralie was found dead in a vacant lot, her mother Catherine - who thinks that her daughter was murdered - conducts her own investigation.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2001-05-30
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Whatever Happened to My Revolution
Overview: Angela was 8 years old when the first McDonald's opened in East Berlin - Since then, she has been fighting against the curse of her generation: to be born "too late" at a time of global political depression. Coming from a family of activists, her sister chose the world of business and her mother abandoned overnight her political struggle to move alone to the countryside.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2019-02-06
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Sissi, the Rebellious Empress
Overview: The last three days in the life of Elizabeth of Austria before her assassination.
Genres: Family
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2004-06-15
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Towards the Battle
Overview: The story unfolds around the year 1860. Louis, a photographer, convinces the general of the French Army to send him to Mexico to photograph the colonial war that is ravaging the country. Once he is there, nothing goes as planned. Never in the right place at the right time to see the battles, Louis can't snap a single picture of the war. But his encounter with Pinto, a Mexican peasant, changes his destiny. It leads him to discover neither glory nor wealth, but a way to confront the ghosts of his past.
Genres: Adventure Western Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2019-11-01
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Beyond the Ocean
Overview: Journey of an african migrant through Europe.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2006-07-02
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Play
Overview: In 1993, Max was 13 when he was offered his first camera. For 25 years he will not stop filming. The bunch of friends, the loves, the successes, the failures. From the 90s to the 2010s, it is the portrait of a whole generation that is emerging through its objective.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2019-09-04
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Oxygen
Overview: A woman wakes in a cryogenic chamber with no recollection of how she got there, and must find a way out before running out of air.
Genres: Science Fiction Thriller Horror
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2021-05-12
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The Marchers
Overview: In 1983, in France experiencing intolerance and racial violence , three young teens and the priest Minguettes launching a largely peaceful march for equality and against racism, over 1,000 km between Marseille and Paris . Despite the difficulties and resistance encountered, their movement will bring about a real boost of hope in the way of Gandhi and Martin Luther King. They unite with their arrival more than 100 000 people from all walks of life and give France its new face.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2013-11-27
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You, Me and Us
Overview: Aya and Louis separated a long time ago. Their little girl, Lina, is now 7 years old. Today, Aya lives with Victor, with whom she’d like to have a baby. Louis is with Gaëlle, who’s his girlfriend but nothing more. Through nine secret meetings organised by Aya, the film tells the story of how a woman and a man, torn between romantic charades and the quest for a «permanent» harmony, take a fresh start at being lovers.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2012-12-26
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Après moi
Overview: Jeanne and Hugo are tango dancers. When Jeanne conceals the reality of her coming death, she decides to find a new partner for her lover, and maybe a new lover. Her sister Sacha suddenly returns in her life.
Genres: Drama TV Movie Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2010-06-20
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When Fall Is Coming
Overview: Michelle is enjoying a peaceful retirement in a Burgundy village, close to her longtime friend Marie-Claude. When her Parisian daughter Valérie drops off her son Lucas to spend school vacation with his grandma, Michelle, stressed out by her daughter, serves her toxic mushrooms for lunch. Valérie quickly recovers, but forbids her mother from seeing her grandson anymore. Feeling lonely and guilty, Michelle falls into a depression... until Marie-Claude's son gets out of prison.
Genres: Drama Thriller Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2024-10-02
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Enquête parallèle : Un crime presque parfait
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Genres: Crime TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2025-01-04
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Flavors of Iraq
Overview: The Fatiha is the first sura of the Koran. In Muslim tradition, it is also the name used for the ceremony to pay tribute to the deceased. Today, it's Amir’s Fatiha, Feurat Alani’s father, a French and Iraqi journalist. It’s the opportunity for his friends and family to reflect on Amir's story, and for Feurat to revisit his own story and Iraq's history.
Genres: Animation Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2024-06-10
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