Gérald Laroche
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Paris,France
Adult: No
Birthday: January 01, 1964
Age: 61 years old
Gender: Male
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Gangsters
Overview: Franck Chaievski and Nina Delgado are two undercover detectives of a French special force trying to identify two corrupts members of the Paris Police Force. Franck is pretending to be a gangster and Nina a prostitute living with him, and involved in a robbery of a fortune in diamonds, having seven deaths and some injured persons.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2002-02-20
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State Affairs
Overview: A plane explodes above the Gulf of Guinea. An escort girl is murdered in a Parisian park. Thousands of miles separate these two events, and yet Nora Chahyd, believes there's a connection between them, much to his superiors chagrin. As Nora investigates, getting dangerously close to the powers that be, the murders and betrayals accumulate, and signs point to a state affair at the heart of it all.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2009-11-25
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Michou d'Auber
Overview: Set in France during the struggle for Algerian independence, Messaoud's mother is terminally ill and his father, needing to work long hours in the factory, can't look after him, so decides to put him and his older brother Abdel in foster care. Sent to the countryside, Abdel has to work on a farm, but Messaoud is taken in by a childless woman, who conceals his Arab origins from her fiercely Gaullist ex-army husband. Re-named Michel/Michou, and with his hair comically dyed blond, the young boy quickly steals the hearts of both foster-parents, and eventually is instrumental in saving their troubled marriage.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2007-02-28
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The Last Deadly Mission
Overview: A washed-up Marseilles cop (Auteuil) earns a chance at redemption by protecting a woman from the man who killed her parents as he is about to be released from prison.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2008-03-12
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Loser Takes All!
Overview: Serge Vaudier, a mathematics teacher, wins the lotto twice and claims he can do it again, thanks to an infallible system he has designed. Is a he genius or a con man? Angèle, the head of the the government's bureau, is determined to entrap him. She asks her secret lover, Jacques Loriot, an expert player in the casinos, for help.
Genres: Mystery Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2004-06-23
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Dante 01
Overview: Deep space, at the edge of the galaxy. The future. A new prisoner arrives on top security prison ship and psychiatric research unit Dante 01. Sole survivor of an encounter with an alien force, Saint-Georges is a man possessed by inner demons, caught up in the battle to control the monstrous power within him. It's a power that will infect the other highly dangerous occupants of Dante 01, gaolors and prisoners alike, unleashing a violent rebellion that turns this terrifying, labyrinthine world upside down. In the otherworldly hell of the ship's depths, through danger and redemption, each must journey to his very limits... each must confront his own Dragon.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2008-01-02
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Fan-Fan the Tulip
Overview: In this 2003 remake of the classic 1952 French film, Fanfan la Tulipe is a swashbuckling lover who is tricked into joining the army of King Louis XV by Adeline La Franchise, who tells Fanfan that by doing so, he will eventually marry one of the king's daughters
Genres: Adventure Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2003-06-20
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Maléfique
Overview: Four prisoners discover a handwritten book of black magic in their cell, and decide to use it to escape.
Genres: Fantasy Horror Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2003-05-07
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J'irai au paradis car l'enfer est ici
Overview: In this French gangster drama, a young hoodlum, new to his famed father's dubious profession, successfully completes his first hit but then finds himself trapped in between a brutal vendetta between rival gangs. To save himself, Francois joins forces with a motley gang of crooks, led by the emotionally unstable Rufin, and tries to wait the situation out while amusing himself with the affections of a nightclub chanteuse. Meanwhile, his colleagues are being killed off, one by one, leaving him to wonder whether or not his father will use his clout to save him.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1997-10-01
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Love Crime
Overview: In the sterile setting of a powerful multinational, a ruthless corporate executive and her ambitious protégée bare their claws in a vicious battle for supremacy.
Genres: Thriller Crime Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2010-08-09
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Nelly
Overview: The four days following the death of a small town doctor, seen through the eyes of Nelly, his wife, a nurse.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2004-05-15
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La femme à abattre
Overview: A policeman discovers during a case that he is investigating himself. His wife has witnessed a terrorist attack committed by her lover.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1993-07-07
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The Second Wind
Overview: Gu, a famous gangster, has just escaped from jail. All french police is after him. Before leaving the country with Manouche, the woman he loves, Gu needs a final job to get some money. The job works, but a police's scheming makes Gu appear as a traitor to his own accomplices. Gu will do whatever it takes to clean his honor...
Genres: Drama Crime Mystery Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2007-10-24
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Night Shift
Overview: A worker in a bottle factory, Pierre decides to switch from day shift to night shift. In his new team, he runs into Fred, a charismatic and violent guy. Fred says loudly that Pierre is his boyfriend. In fact, he never misses an opportunity to bully or humiliate him. This could only be a bad joke. But the harassment continues in a downward spiral ...
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2001-03-14
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In Your Wake
Overview: An estranged father returns with plans to open a bar with the son who still harbors resentment towards him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2007-09-17
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Thousand Cuts
Overview: Omar Petit would be able to live a perfectly happy life with his wife and daughter if it weren’t for a number of farmers from the vineyard who have decided to make life miserable for them because of where Omar comes from. One night, one of them happens to be in the middle of sabotaging their vineyard when he witnesses the murder of three South American drug smugglers. The killer, an injured biker who’s nevertheless as hard as nails, must take refuge on the Petits’ farm and takes the family hostage...
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2017-01-26
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School Society
Overview: Virginie Thévenot, a somewhat special math teacher, takes advantage of a general strike in a college to try an extraordinary experiment with a small group of students. She takes a bet: let them do what they want... A spark that will ignite the spirits of teenagers, cause a small revolution within the college, and turn their lives upside down.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2022-10-26
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93, rue Lauriston
Overview: 93, rue Lauriston, in the 16th arrondissement de Paris, is an address of bleak memory. It was indeed the headquarter of the French Gestapo, which was active between 1941 and 1944 and was headed by Henri Lafont and Pierre Loutrel, two wanted criminals. On the day of 1940 he was demobilized, little did well-meaning Léon Jabinet know that he would be associated with such disreputable characters. And yet, some time later, Odile Panzer, the Jewish girl he has been hiding at his parents'place, is arrested by the Gestapo. On this occasion Léon is offered a deal for her release: collaborating with the Carlingue (another name for the French auxiliaries of the Nazi police) and Odile will be free. Or else... What should he do?
Genres: Crime Drama History TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2004-12-14
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Hiver rouge
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Genres: Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2011-09-08
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Black Box
Overview: An accident survivor wakes from a coma and confronts old, uncomfortable memories.
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2005-11-02
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The Tramp of the Somme
Overview: The unidentified body of a homeless man was found on a dune of the Somme. Fatally shot shotgun ... shot in the back. Pure accident? Homicide concealed? Intentional killing otherwise called "murder"? The local Gendarmerie Brigade is in charge of the case, under the direction of the Substitute Aurore Debac. To investigate the death of Vagabond of the Somme Bay, Dawn relies on the persistence of Staff of the Gendarmerie, non-standard methods, BEAUJOUR Paul, newly arrived, who knows nothing about codes region ...
Genres: TV Movie Mystery Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2015-06-06
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Comme une ombre
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2010-12-21
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Crossfire
Overview: A grizzled Parisian detective is sent to an outpost town in Southern France to dismantle a gang of killers which has freed a notorious criminal. The detective inherits a team of unmotivated and dishevelled detectives, and he makes connections nobody else ever saw because nobody else bothered to look. A mysterious, charismatic figure, he leads by example, and gradually his team begins to feel like cops again.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2008-06-11
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La Société
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Genres: TV Movie Science Fiction
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2004-01-01
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The Snake
Overview: A ruthless gang led by private detective Joseph Plender is extorting rich people and famous fashion photographer Vincent Mandel seems the next victim. He is married to Hélène, daughter of one of the richest people in Europe, but not quite happily. In fact the marriage is on the brink of a divorce and a judge is deciding who will take the two children. Can Hélène take them to Germany or will they stay with Vincent? Vincent has a lot on his mind and he improvises when model Sofia Kippiani comes to his studio, but his makeup crew doesn't show up. Before he knows it, he is accused of a rape. Things go worse and worse for Vincent, he sees his entire life slipping away and, most importantly, he might lose his children. But why does his former schoolmate Joseph Plender seek contact with Vincent and even solve a nasty problem for him? Does Plender want something more than money?
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2006-10-21
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J'ai tué Clémence Acéra
Overview: A man's wife has disappeared; her diary gives the police detailed account of their sexual life.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2001-04-11
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Les oreilles sur le dos
Overview: A Latin American country on the Pacific seaboard. A coup d'état fails. Jacques and his fellow mercenaries must get out of there as fast as they can. He takes with him Monica, a beautiful prostitute with a taste for adventure. Having cheated their shady paymasters out of some valuable paintings, their only possible means of escape is by hijacking a bus, fleeing across desert and jungle, and rafting down the river to the Atlantic. Nature is hostile, but much wilder opponents await them!
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2002-11-08
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I Always Wanted to Be a Gangster
Overview: Told in four vignettes, this existential comedy relates the exploits of four aspiring criminals who hope to improve their lot, but find that they might not have what it takes for a life of crime.
Genres: Drama Comedy Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2008-03-26
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Sidestroke
Overview: Clara (Karin Viard) is a stripper with a high-strung, jealous boyfriend with the curious name of Loockeed (Antoine Chappey). The couple are friends with the even-temperred, almost saintly Max (Gerald Laroche), an auto mechanic. The three of them set out from their home in the north to journey to the Alpine mountains near Switzerland and Italy, where they will help a fourth friend take care of his pleasure boat business at Lake Annecy while he is in military service. As the trio attempt to establish some sort of equilibrium in their new lives, Max must constantly deal with Loockeed's testy, jealous barbs. Despite this, the three of them remain friends.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1993-12-22
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Tomorrow at Dawn
Overview: Mathieu, a piano virtuoso, goes home to help his brother Paul to take care of their sick mother. Paul is into reenacting old battles, dressing up and getting into character, even dueling if necessary. Mathieu gets involved in this world and play becomes real.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2009-08-12
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Adieu De Gaulle, adieu
Overview: May 1968. Charles de Gaulle is 77. His great career is behind him. Obsessed by France's prestige, he's looking with distance to the student demonstrations. An intimate portrait of the General through the tale of 68'events.
Genres: History TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2009-04-09
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Blind Date
Overview: He invents puzzles. He’s committed body and soul to his work and needs silence to be able to concentrate. She is an accomplished pianist and can’t live without music. She must prepare for a competition that could change her life. They are going to be forced to coexist without seeing each other.
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2015-05-06
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Lady Bar 2
Overview: The sequel of Lady Bar follows Jean and Pat opening a match-making resort on a beautiful Thai island while Jean's friend Polo finds himself soul-searching in a buddhist monastry.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2009-09-11
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Le voyage de la Veuve
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Genres: History War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2008-12-31
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Au petit Marguery
Overview: Hippolyte, the chef at the small Paris restaurant of the title, is losing his sense of smell - and without that, you can’t cook. Not in France. The restaurant has to close. Guests and customers of the ailing master chef gather for one last fabulous meal. Between courses, personal conflicts are explored and flashbacks flesh out incidents from the lives of the restaurant owners.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1995-11-08
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Forgery and the Use of Forgeries
Overview: Fleeing fame, the writer Anatole Hirsch decides to publish his new book under the name of his cousin, Martin Bassane. This book wins the Prix Goncourt. A film inspired by the story of Romain Gary.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1990-08-22
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Paris by Night
Overview: Police commander Simon Weiss, head of the division that supervises Paris’s demi-monde, starts out on his nightly tour of bars, discos and strip clubs, making sure once again that the owners don’t bend the rules too far. Weiss knows he’s between a rock and hard place: it’s obvious that criminal gangs run rampant in his special domain, and even more obvious that they’re protected by higher-ups in the department.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2012-01-04
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Vidocq: Le Masque et la Plume
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Genres: Mystery Crime TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2010-05-03
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