François Morel
Also Known As: Франсуа Морель
Biography: François Morel (born 10 June 1959) is a French actor and filmmaker. He is best known for appearing in sketch television series Les Deschiens (1993-2002). Source: Article "François Morel (actor)" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Flers, Orne, France
Adult: No
Birthday: June 10, 1959
Age: 65 years old
Gender: Male
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Ça reste entre nous
Overview: Martin Lamotte made his directorial debut with this French comedy. Building contractor Patrick is unaware that Helene, his wife for 15 years, intends to celebrate their wedding anniversary with a surprise party. She's invited friends and relatives to spend the weekend at their blue house. Elsewhere down the road, at an identical blue house, Patrick and his other love, Elizabeth, the mother of his two-year-old daughter, are planning an engagement party for the son of their neighbor. Neither woman knows about the other, and this sticky situation requires Patrick to rush back and forth from one blue house to another throughout the evening. The story is told in flashback by Patrick -- from his hospital bed.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1998-05-05
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Bonsoir Monsieur Devos
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2023-01-18
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Oh My Goodness!
Overview: Five nuns set their sights on winning the cash prize in a major cycling race to raise money to renovate a dilapidated hospice. The only hitch is that none of them can ride a bicycle.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2023-02-15
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L'Entente cordiale
Overview: The upper-class secret agent teaming up accidentally with an easily-corrupted, sly interpreter...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2006-06-21
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Vatanen's Hare
Overview: A reporter who's soon to receive the Journalist of the Year Award hits a young hare on his way home. He gets out of the car to see if it's ok, but the hare runs off deeper into the forest, taking him on adventure of self-discovery.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2006-12-27
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Go West: A Lucky Luke Adventure
Overview: The Daltons have escaped to New York, where their accumulated loot is hidden in the carts of Monsieur Pierre's group of honest, naive European immigrants, who naively bought land in California from Crook, who inserted a clause they must claim it within 80 days. Joe emotionally blackmails Luke to guide them there, hoping to escape on the way. The usual route must shortened from 6 to 2 months, so no danger can be avoided. Given Lucky's reputation, Crook decides to shadow them to add sabotage, just to be sure- or is it?
Genres: Adventure Animation Comedy Western
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2007-07-29
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Should Not!...
Overview: Bernard, an executive for a big company, tries to get home in time for his wedding but is caught in the middle of a mass suicide. He saves a sect member who then follows him like a puppy, and is chased by the sect leaders, two over-the-top crooks with bloated egos and a craving for money.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1996-11-20
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Fool Moon
Overview: Une bande d'anciens copains de Sciences-Po, devenus de jeunes loups de la politique se retrouvent pour un week-end dans une maison isolée en Bretagne avec pour seul mot d'ordre: se détendre et surtout ne jamais parler politique. Mais la pleine lune, des voisins adeptes de mystérieux rites et le vieil Armagnac trouvé dans la cave vont les faire désavouer leur promesse, et tout va partir en live...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2008-07-16
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Towards Zero
Overview: Inviting the ex-wife to a family reunion when the none-too-secure new wife will be there hardly seems to be a recipe for success, and true to form, bodies have begun to stack up by the end of this cinematic update of a classic Agatha Christie tale. Luckily for the extended clan gathered at a sumptuous waterfront estate in Northern France, Inspector Martin Bataille is on hand to find out not only "who done it" but why.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2007-10-31
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Happiness Is in the Field
Overview: Francis, the boss of a small plumbing supply company, is harassed by tax collectors, striking employees, and an impossible wife and daughter. His only joy is sharing lunch with his friend Gerard. Then a TV show called "where are you?" shows a woman from Gers who is searching for her husband who disappeared 28 years ago. The lost husband looks like an identical twin of Francis...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1995-12-06
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Paris 36
Overview: A star is born in a time of both celebration and instability in this historical drama with music from director Christophe Barratier. In the spring of 1936, Paris is in a state of uncertainty; while the rise of the Third Reich in Germany worries many, a leftist union-oriented candidate, Léon Blum, has been voted into power, and organized labor is feeling its new power by standing up to management.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2008-09-24
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An Amazing Couple
Overview: A woman, concerned by her husband's eccentric behavior, hires a detective to follow his every move -- which yields unexpected results.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2002-09-12
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After Life
Overview: The final installment in director Lucas Belvaux's trilogy follows Pascal, a cop who sees a return to credibility in the capture of escaped convict Bruno--who in turn is harbored by Pascal's morphine-addicted wife Agnes. Pascal's already precarious ties to Agnes are strained further when he meets and falls for her fellow schoolteacher friend Cecile. With Pascal focused on Bruno and Cecile, Agnes is forced to find a fix on her own.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2003-01-08
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Tout baigne !
Overview: Les aventures tragi-comiques de quelques individus ou comment reagir quand votre maison se retrouve ensevelie sous les eaux, envahie par de droles de personnages et qu'on va accoucher dans les heures qui viennent?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1999-09-23
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Murder in Chartreuse
Overview: Forest of the Chartreuse massif. A group of lumberjacks working on a job come across the body of a man suspended in the air by a rope system, as if it were a sort of disarticulated puppet. In charge of the investigation, Justine Verard is forced to collaborate with Mehdi Djaoud, whom she holds responsible for the death of her husband, himself a detective, during a mission that went wrong five years earlier. Despite this tragic past, the two agents will have to join forces to solve this first murder together in the face of a mystery that will get thicker as the investigation proceeds. Between a complicated personal life and her investigation, Justine will be caught in a vice-like grip until the final countdown under high tension.
Genres: TV Movie Mystery Thriller Drama Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2021-12-25
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War in the Highlands
Overview: La Guerre Dans le Haut Pays is a period piece set in the winter of 1797-98, during the six days leading up to the fall of Bern and the victory of Napoleon's army, when the Bern government is faced with mixed loyalties from its subjects. The population of the lower valley is divided, but the upper region remains loyal, since they have been given special autonomy and a favorable system of taxation. David, a postman, works between the two regions. His father, who is a hard-line conservative, does not approve of his relationship with Julie, who is from the lower part of the valley. Julie's father, on the other hand, is more open to the new ideas of liberation. As a result of his work, David is exposed to new ideas and becomes a believer in equality and justice.
Genres: Romance Drama War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1998-10-07
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Gentlemen Children
Overview: To punish three troublemakers, Albert Castraing, their French teacher, gives them an essay to do, in which they must imagine what their lives would be if they were suddenly transformed into adults. The next morning, the three twelve-year-old boys realize to their amazement that...they HAVE BEEN transformed into adults! As for they parents they have become...KIDS! It is the beginning of a series of mishaps for Joseph, a Jew, Igor, a catholic and Nourdine, an Arab...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1997-10-01
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If I Were a Rich Man
Overview: Between Alice, a hospital nurse and Aldo, a shampoo sales representative, things have turned sour of late. Alice blames her husband for lacking ambition and contemplates divorce.One day Aldo wins the ten million euro lotto prize. But, unwilling to share the bonanza, he keeps mum about it, all the more as he finds out Alice has an affair with Gérard, Aldo's former friend and ... new boss. However, Aldo, leading a double life, starts spending his money ...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2002-11-27
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The Antidote
Overview: JAM (Christian Clavier), a French "master of the universe" is on the brink of a major takeover when he starts suffering from anxiety attacks. His doctor (Lhermite) thinks it is to do with childhood experiences and suggests he searches back in his mind to something that could be the trigger and will prove to be the antidote.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2005-03-30
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Raymond Devos dans tous ses sens
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2022-11-03
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War of the Buttons
Overview: Occupied France; Lebrac leads a play war between two rival kid gangs, but a girl he likes, who's Jewish, is in danger of being discovered by local Nazi sympathisers. Lebrac and the village must now respond to the reality of what's happening.
Genres: Adventure Family
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2011-09-21
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The Rabbi's Cat
Overview: The story of a rabbi and his talking cat, a sharp-tongued feline philosopher brimming with scathing humor and a less than pure love for the rabbi's teenage daughter.
Genres: Comedy Animation
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2011-05-31
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A Model Employee
Overview: François Maurey, the head of a computer company, has developed a product that's sought after by the Americans, but he refuses to sell it to them. While his wife Caroline is preparing to leave him after 25 years of marriage, François has to face various people in his life, including new arrival, Florence, a troubled and mysterious young woman who enters François's life and causes havoc.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2003-08-06
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Holidays by the Sea
Overview: A comedy about funny adventures of the group of French people during the summer vacation.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2011-06-29
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Violetta, the Motorcycle Queen
Overview: After a 10-year absence, 27-year-old Amelie returns home to suburban Paris and the decaying motorcycle-dealership/junkyard where she was raised. Her hope is that time has healed the open wound of hostility between herself and her alcoholic older brother Adrien. Amelie dusts off an ancient motorcycle, revs it up, and practices riding inside the immense sphere of metal latticework constructed by her late father. The local popularity of this stunt suggests a broader appeal plus profits, so soon the act goes on the road, where emotions spin out of control.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1997-11-05
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Brèves de comptoir
Overview: A small, old-fashioned cafe in a suburban square, opposite the cemetery, the Hirondelle. Every day at half past six, the customers dance with their stories and tirades, totally amazing.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2014-09-24
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Ze Film
Overview: A poor kid nicknamed Kubrick loves movies and dreams about being an award winning director. One day, he stumbles upon a movie shoot, gets confused with a real movie maker and takes the equipment he needs to shoot his movie.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2005-02-23
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The Great Magic
Overview: The 20s. In a seaside resort where everybody is bored, Albert Marvuglia, a slightly shabby conjurer, makes Marta, the wife of the wealthy bourgeois Charles Moufflet, disappear, who takes advantage of this tour to escape for good.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2023-02-08
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South of the Clouds
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Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2003-10-29
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Splendeur et gloire des Deschiens
Overview: The first best of Les Deschiens on DVD. A selection of the best "classic" and "modern" sketches.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2007-10-15
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Le Grand Retournement
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Genres: Comedy Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2013-01-22
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The Jolly Forgers
Overview: Mireille Stockaert is a lonely and broken woman. In love with painting and poetry, she makes do with her work in the cafeteria of the Beaux-Arts in Namur. Her life changes when she chooses to live in the large family house she inherits. Not having the means to maintain it, she decides to take in three tenants. Three men who will upset her routine.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2023-10-11
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Serial Teachers
Overview: With only 12 percent of its pupils obtaining their baccalaureate, Jules Ferry High School is the worst school in France. The Inspector of Schools has already exhausted all the conventional means to raise standards at the school and he has no choice but to take the advice of his deputy. It is a case of having to fight fire with fire: the worst pupils must be taught by the worst teachers...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2013-04-17
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Plaisir d'offrir
Overview: It is the story of Pierre, a considerate husband who is vaguely obsessional and a touch sensitive. It is also the story of Claire, a strong-minded woman who loves literature and is at times obsessed with beards.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1995-05-11
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Asterix: The Mansions of the Gods
Overview: In order to wipe out the Gaulish village by any means necessary, Caesar plans to absorb the villagers into Roman culture by having an estate built next to the village to start a new Roman colony.
Genres: Animation Comedy Adventure Family
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2014-11-26
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Not My Type
Overview: Marcia, a classy young Parisian singer, is recording an album with her idol Daredjane, a '70s rock icon. When Daredjane dies accidentally, Marcia needs to get approval from Daredjane's rights-holder, Anthony, a suburban market vendor in his thirties, to release their album. But Anthony never liked his distant relative, let alone her music. Their two worlds clash between good and bad taste, sophistication and rudeness, sincerity and lies. Unless love gets in the way...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2022-06-22
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Aunt Hilda!
Overview: Plant loving Hilda, has created a museum where she preserves endangered and rare plants from all over the world. Meanwhile Attilem, a new genetically modified cereal, is launched on the market. Growing with little water and fertilizer while generating high crop field Attilem looks like an ideal solution to eradicate starvation and provide an alternative to diminishing oil reserves. But nothing is at it seems...
Genres: Animation Comedy Family
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2014-02-12
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Best in Bed
Overview: Raised to believe in performance and in the idea that all abilities must be optimized, Emma is a young, methodical woman who appears determined and relatively sure of herself. But two consecutive failures (real or imagined) lead her to believe that she has a real problem: she is useless in bed. Because she is more fragile than she appears, Emma hence decides to become... the best lay in Paris! She then sets out on a formidable plan of action (theory, practical, validation of acquired knowledge), which soon provokes a series of misunderstandings and disasters within her immediate vicinity. For one thing, her method doesn't turn out to be really adapted to her field of investigation. And Emma has probably also forgotten a little detail: love doesn't obey any plan. In this absurd and nutty quest, Emma will learn to let go, to lose control, and, to finally win her freedom.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2014-01-15
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L'Affaire Salengro
Overview: July 1936. Leon Blum's (Daniel Mesguich) left-wing coalition government is facing one of the hardest strikes paralyzing the whole country's economy. But one man alone is about to get the French people back to work, and peacefully: Roger Salengro (Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu).
Genres: History TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2009-04-13
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Let There Be Light!
Overview: God comes to Earth in order to make a film.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1998-07-08
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First Case
Overview: Nora, 26, is a graduate and still lives with her parents. While Nora has no field experience, she finds herself in charge of a 19-year-old boy, accused of having murdered a girl from his residence. From her first police custody to the follow-up of the instruction, Nora discovers the cruelty of the world around her, in her intimate and professional life. Soon, carried away by the frenzy of her new life, she multiplies the errors.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2024-04-24
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Loulou
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Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2023-09-16
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Gérald K. Gérald
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Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2011-03-18
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François Morel - Les habits du dimanche
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1999-01-01
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La Mort du Chinois
Overview: Michel, a children's book author, has always been successful in life until the day his wife leaves him for a Chinese person. Planning on killing his rival, he starts looking for them.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1998-06-24
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Piccolo, Saxo et compagnie
Overview: In the kingdom of music, different families of instruments live apart. One day, the string family heard about the saxophone family and they invited them over for a visit. The two families then decide to embark on a search of other instrument families. During their journey, other families start joining them and toghether they form a large orchestra.
Genres: Music Animation
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2022-12-17
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François Morel : voilà... c'est tout
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2019-12-07
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Félix et moi, sur les traces du chanteur de Viens Poupoule !
Overview: Félix Mayol was a very famous singer, one of the biggest stars of the early 20th century. Nowadays, his name sink into oblivion. In Toulon, a stadium and a mall are named after him, but nobody knows how much this city owes to this man.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2024-01-24
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Wedding morning
Overview: In a small apartment, a couple wakes up on the morning of their wedding. She is happy and cheerful, he is nervous and tired. The couple prepares under the attentive and ironic gaze of an omnipresent and talkative choir.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1989-11-15
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Last Chance Saloon
Overview: Ils sont amis depuis l'enfance et se sont juré de toujours s'entraider. Ensemble, Kathy, Tara et Yann ont quitté leur île bretonne pour s'installer à Paris. Alors que Yann est heureux avec Alfredo, son compagnon, les deux filles connaissent des vies sentimentales plutôt désastreuses. Tara, aussi rieuse que peu sûre d'elle, se fait esclavagiser par Thomas, petit prof égocentrique et mesquin...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2004-06-23
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Les Deschiens - C'est magnifique
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1994-01-18
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Sex, Love & Therapy
Overview: Lambert, a recovering sex addict, tries to redeem himself by becoming a marriage counsellor. He stays abstinent for several months, but his alluring assistant's unbridled sexuality tests his resolve.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2014-10-01
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Comme une louve
Overview: When Lili, 26 years old, poor, single mother of three, is wrongly accused of abuse and the social services take away her children, she collapses. But this is without counting on the luminous meeting of other women. With them, Lili fights to rebuild her family.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2023-09-20
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Valentin Valentin
Overview: In a small Parisian building, a diverse group of people crosses paths, likes and observes each other, without always seeing each other.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2015-01-07
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Family for Rent
Overview: Forty-year-old Paul-André is a timid, rather introverted man. Rich but alone, he is deeply bored and ends up concluding that what he needs is a family. Violette, a forty-year-old full of energy, is threatened with eviction and is afraid she'll lose custody of her two children. Paul-André then proposes a totally above the board contract to rent the family in exchange for him paying off Violette's debts. For better and for worse..
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2015-08-19
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Alliance cherche doigt
Overview: Geneviève Lechat is the director of a marriage agency. At 50, she is still very desirable and very fulfilled, especially emotionally. She offers her son, André, to open an agency branch on the Internet.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1997-09-17
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Chut!
Overview: A young couple, Ines and Fred, have just moved into an apartment with a long corridor. After a few days, Ines hears strange noises and thinks she sees something. Trying to find out more, she gets scratched, but she doesn't know by whom or by what. Fred sees nothing and hears nothing. A tension arises between the two young people who do not understand each other. Is Ines going crazy or is it Fred who refuses to face reality?
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2002-10-18
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Atelier Cyrano
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2021-11-12
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At The End Of The Day
Overview: In an increasingly crazy world, Lino, who has decided to leave everything behind, will come to realise that, at the end of the day, everything that happens to us is for our own good!
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2024-09-19
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Peter and the wolf
Overview: An adaptation from Peter and the wolf music by Sergei Prokofiev presenting the tales of a young boy and a wolf caracterized by instruments.
Genres: Music Animation
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2014-11-04
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Les Deschiens - série moderne
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2003-05-26
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Les Deschiens - Lapin chasseur
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1989-06-07
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Le pigeon
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Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2010-05-09
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La Vie Sauvage
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2016-04-09
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Footnotes
Overview: When Julie finally lands a job at a luxury shoemaker, her dreams of stability collapse as the owner threatens to close the factory. Together with an intrepid group of women, they decide to resist, bringing back to life a bold and elegant shoe model to save the renowned brand. But when Samy, a young truck driver as wily as charming, jumps in the middle of the fight, this is no longer the same song.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2016-07-06
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Family Business
Overview: When their aunt's inheritance is given to their annoying cousin, three brothers and sisters have to work to get it back.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2018-01-10
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Bien des choses
Overview: "Pensées d'Alexandrie", "Bises du Caire" ... It's summer. They took their car, drove in coaches, flew in planes and visited camera in shoulder strap some distant country bristling with monuments and other "things to see", such as Egypt, Greece, India or Bordeaux. So as they are bored a bit far from their home sweet home, the Rouchon write to Brochon and vice versa - we are polite all the same! They send postcards not stung from the beetles. In these letters from the front of the leisure society, François Morel as a "melancholy mocker" has fun with often tender humor, sometimes biting, of this irrepressible need to change scenery to finally eye with a weary eye the pyramids and all those centuries that contemplate you while thinking of the evening meal (wine is free and at will) and the friends who have stayed in the country.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2008-05-17
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Guardian Angels
Overview: A sleazy Paris nightclub owner and ex-detective flies to Hong Kong to rescue the young son of a friend murdered by the Chinese mob.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1995-10-11
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When the Sea Rises
Overview: An actress, who goes all over rural France with her monologe "Sex and Crime", meets and falls in love with a man, since that moment starts helping him in his plays.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2004-10-27
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La Saint-festin
Overview: Hurrah! Tomorrow is the 40th of November. It's Saint Feast Day, the great celebration of ogres, so hurry up now if you have not caught a child yet. And good hunting!
Genres: Comedy Animation
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2007-05-23
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François Morel - Hyacinthe et Rose
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2016-07-26
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Planète animale 2 : Survivre
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2017-04-25
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Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life
Overview: A glimpse at the life of French singer Serge Gainsbourg, from growing up in 1940s Nazi-occupied Paris through his successful song-writing years in the 1960s to his death in 1991 at the age of 62.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2010-01-20
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Robert Doisneau: Through the Lens
Overview: Featuring previously unissued photographs and video archives as well as interviews of his friends and partners in crime, this documentary tells how the kid from the poor suburbs turned superstar photographer. It draws the intimate portrait of the life and work – being so closely interwoven – of and artist fiercely determined to be purveyor of happiness.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2017-01-19
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Dead Tired
Overview: Stressed and overworked, famous French movie star Michel Blanc is beginning to wear down, physically and mentally, from the pressure and demands of fame. Already in a fragile state of mind, strange events start to transpire all around him, and he gradually loses his grip. Taking the advice of a psychiatrist, Blanc retreats to the countryside with his friend Carole Bouquet, but Blanc still has not managed to escape all of his problems.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1994-05-18
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Hitler in Hollywood
Overview: A bio-doc about Micheline Presle changes into a thrilling investigation of the long hidden truth about European cinema. This mockumentary thriller uncovers Hollywood's unsuspected plot against the European motion picture industry. Numerous directors and stars appear in the film, making it a choice morsel for all film lovers.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2011-05-04
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Les diablogues
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2008-10-15
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Les Dégourdis de la onzième
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1986-01-17
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The Journey to Paris
Overview: Shy and still living with his mother, a highway cashier one day decides to finally live his craziest dream: to visit Paris.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1999-07-07
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Les Précieuses ridicules
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1997-05-03
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Mélancolie ouvrière
Overview: Long live the strike! Lucie Baud, one of the pioneers of the women's movement, went with creativity, fighting spirit and the power of singing against the weapons of male-dominated capitalist society in nineteenth-century France. The film, based on true events, describes the ambitious fight of a silk moth. She stood up for the rights of the female working class to end maltreatment and oppression once and for all. For the revolution in women's rights, she even put her family back and fought to the end for their beliefs.
Genres: History Drama TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2018-02-07
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Après Suzanne
Overview: Joachim comes back in his family after a heartache. In spite of the excessive tenderness of his parents and his sensation of strangeness, he learns to desire to live again thanks to his friend Allan, his potential new love Esther, and all the pretty girls randomly crossed.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2016-05-21
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Julien l'apprenti
Overview: The apprenticeship of Julien with the Rosmers, furriers, beginning in 1933 just before their world is transformed by anti-Semitism.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2000-10-14
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Asterix: The Secret of the Magic Potion
Overview: Following a fall during mistletoe picking, Druid Getafix decides that it is time to secure the future of the village. Accompanied by Asterix and Obelix, he undertakes to travel the Gallic world in search of a talented young druid to transmit the Secret of the Magic Potion.
Genres: Family Animation Comedy Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2018-05-12
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Les Deschiens - Les Frères Zenith
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1990-11-21
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Monsieur Paul
Overview: Discover how a war criminal escaped justice for decades before finally facing trial. It's 1972, and Franck Jourdan (Laurent Gerra), a reporter in a French news magazine, is getting obsessed in its investigation. Its objective: to bring Paul Touvier (François Morel) to trial for crimes against humanity. During his quest, Jourdan discovers how Touvier remained hidden from the authorities all those years.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2016-05-30
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À cause des filles…?
Overview: At a wedding where the husband runs away, everyone has his own story to tell about the trivial misfortune of a person in love with someone that slips away. The guests paint a full picture of clumsiness, lies, and bad luck, that makes impossible, whatever the age, all attempts of seduction... or close enough !
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2019-01-30
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La Fin du Monde est pour dimanche
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2015-11-01
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Les migrations de Vladimir
Overview: Fleeing the mafia, Vladimir, a young romantic Russian in love with Rimbaud, ends up without money in Paris. After taking part in a game show, where presenter Victor Lalumière bows him, he is found by the Russian mafia who wants to kill him.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1999-05-05
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Les Deschiens - Spécial Coupe du Monde de football
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2002-05-31
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Big Cats
Overview: Documentary series uncovering the secret lives of big cats, using the latest technology and scientific research to bring these animal superstars out of the shadows.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2019-03-02
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À 10 minutes de la plage
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Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2010-05-31
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Life Without Trick
Overview: Popolo, a magician full of spirit who works at a small circus, loses the legs of his beloved assistant Amabilé during the act of the woman cut in half. Of course, she gets mad at him, especially when they are both fired. To cheer her up, Popolo promises to pay her a vacation, but he needs to find a job first, any job.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2013-09-25
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Le Cœur sur la main
Overview: House for sale...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2002-10-09
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À l'abri des regards indiscrets
Overview: January 1st 2002. 1st day of Euro currency. The window of a cash dispenser is lifting up on a square, in Paris. 23 amazing characters will be meeting each other there, all along this very particular day...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2002-01-01
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Les Deschiens : Qui va m'aimer ?
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1999-04-08
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Spoiled Brats
Overview: The billionaire is tired of the whims of his own children and decides to teach them a lesson. He announces to them that he has become bankrupt. Now spoiled teenagers will have to do what they have never done: go to work, learn to love and value life.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2021-09-15
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My Neighbors' Neighbors
Overview: An ogre breaks his teeth the day before Saint-Festin, the ogres’ great celebration day. A magician botches his trick of sawing a woman in half, and loses his assistant’s legs. An overequipped hiker gets stuck in the elevator for several days. An old man falls in love with a runaway pair of legs. A mother asks her neighbour to look after her children on the eve of Saint-Festin… In one building, the lives of ten next-door neighbours, or the neighbours of neighbours, intertwine as they grapple with the dramas, joys, surprises and dangers of everyday life.
Genres: Animation Comedy Family
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2022-02-02
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Les p'tits gars Ladouceur
Overview: When their behavior and brushes with the law drive their mother to abandon them, Jonathan and Vivi hire a private detective to find her.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2001-02-10
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Kaamelott: The First Chapter
Overview: Following the end of the acclaimed tv series, King Arthur will oppose Lancelot's army to get the throne back after his flee to Rome.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2021-07-21
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The Speech
Overview: Meet Adrien! He's 35. He's stuck in a mid-life crisis. He's neurotic and hypochondriac. Tonight he's stuck in an endless family dinner and his girlfriend is not answering his texts. On top of that, his dumb brother-in-law asks him to prepare a speech for his wedding. Could it get even worse?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2020-09-01
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The Voiceless
Overview: A small clan lives in the underworld of a rubbish dump. They recycle the waste they find or steal, in order to cobble their home together. Life there could be so sweet, were it not for a chief inspector hot on their heels.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2022-04-20
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Josep
Overview: February 1939. Overwhelmed by the flood of Republicans fleeing Franco's dictatorship, the French government's solution consists in confining the Spanish refugees in concentration camps where they have no other choice than to build their own shelters, feed off the horses which have carried them out of their country, and die by the hundred for lack of hygiene and water... In one of these camps, two men, separated by barbwire, will become friends. One is a guard the other is Josep Bartoli (Barcelona 1910 - New York 1995), a cartoonist who fights against the Franco regime.
Genres: Animation Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2020-09-30
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Cyrano de Ménilmontant
Overview: Pierre-Jean Morin, known as PJ, is a local police officer who falls in love with Lucille, the new recruit of his brigade. Often bullied by her colleagues, the young woman thinks of resigning. PJ will then do everything to keep her by his side...
Genres: Comedy Romance TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2005-03-13
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Little Nicholas' Treasure
Overview: In the peaceful world of Little Nicholas, there is Daddy, Mommy, the school, but above all, his band of friends. They are called The Invincibles, but above all they are inseparable. At least they think so. But when Dad gets a promotion and announces that the family is moving to the south of France, Nicolas' world falls apart. How can he imagine life without his best friends?
Genres: Family Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2021-09-09
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J'ai des doutes : Devos-Morel
Overview: François Morel-Raymond Devos, Raymond Devos-François Morel, and the loop has come full circle! Because the actor's new creation, Molière 2019, borrows from the illustrious artist the title of one of his famous sketches in which he questions the universe, the madness of existence, the incommunicability with his unequaled talent. Fascinated by this great clown with "a touch of madness capable of blocking the well-oiled mechanics of logic, reality, everyday life", François Morel immersed himself body and soul in his texts to invent a musical show in his homage . Devilishly cheerful! 100 ème représentation au Théâtre de Caen
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2018-05-22
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Dans le secret des primates
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2020-11-16
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La France aux fourneaux
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2020-12-23
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Les Deschiens - Les pieds dans l'eau
Overview: With their faces of sweet lunatics or lighted beaufs, citizens of the ordinary or pochards between two wines, they interpret, in twos or threes, conversations seized on the zincs of the bistros or in the corners of our kitchens. A few minutes of delirium or absurdity. The Deschiens are the actors of Jérôme Deschamps's troupe, who, as usual, with his accomplice Macha Makeieff, track down the little nonsense of everyday life, between humor and ferocity.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1993-01-01
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Beaumarchais the Scoundrel
Overview: Beaumarchais the Scoundrel is a biopic film based on the life of the French playwright, financier and spy Pierre Beaumarchais depicting his activities during the American War of Independence and his authorship of the Figaro trilogy of plays.
Genres: Adventure History Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1996-03-20
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Black Dju
Overview: This standard slice-of-life drama is about Dju Dibonga (Richard Courcet), a young man who leaves his home on Cabo Verde, an island of Portuguese dependency off the coast of Africa, to go to Luxembourg and search for his father. Far from his home village and unfamiliar with the large city, the young black man forms an unlikely friendship with a down-and-out white policeman whose only consolation in life is found at the bottom of a bottle. Their developing companionship forms the main focus of this movie directed by Pol Cruchten.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1997-11-28
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The Damned of the Paris Commune
Overview: Exclusively created with period engravings, this animated feature explores the Franco-Prussian War of 1870 and the ensuing Paris Commune revolution in 1871.
Genres: Animation History Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2021-03-16
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The Kid from Chaaba
Overview: Le Gone du Chaâba (The Kid of the Chaaba), translated into English as Shantytown Kid by Naima Wolf, is an autobiographical novel by Azouz Begag about his life as a young Algerian boy growing up in a shantytown next to Lyon, France, called the Chaâba by its inhabitants. The story covers a period of approximately three years in the life of the protagonist and deals with issues developing from the clash between two cultures, that of France and that of North Africa, as well as the difficulties of finding a cultural identity between the two. The story focuses on the cultural differences between the Arab and French communities, as well as how the two groups react to each other
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1998-01-14
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Lulu, roi de France
Overview: Lucien Hastier, known as "Lulu", is a locksmith in La Courneuve and a communist activist. He had never known his parents and had been raised by the public assistance, a notary comes to announce that his father died and left him an extraordinary inheritance: a castle, a title of duke and a royal filiation. But problems arise, the deceased duke has left heavy debts and suitors to the title.
Genres: Comedy Family TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1995-12-21
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Attention fragile
Overview: September, 1986. Alice and Martin are 17 years old. They come from provinces to Montesquieu high school in the capital. Like many youngs of their age, born in the 70s and nostalgic of a too comfortable childhood, they progress carefully in life. While Alice and Martin are finding their footing, demonstrations against the Devaquet law and the tragic death of Malik Oussekine are happening.
Genres: Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1995-11-24
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Le monde dans un tableau - Le chapeau de Vermeer
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2020-10-11
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A Day at the Museum
Overview: Un conservateur terrorisé par les plantes vertes, une mère plastifiée pour être exposée, un ballet de Saintes Vierges, des gardiens épuisés par Rodin, un ministre perdu dans une exposition de sexes, une voiture disparue au parking Rembrandt, des provinciaux amoureux des Impressionnistes, touristes galopins galopant d'une salle à l'autre, passager clandestin dans l'art premier, Picasso, Gauguin, Warhol, ils sont tous là dans ce petit monde qui ressemble au grand, dans ce musée pas si imaginaire que ça, valsant la comédie humaine jusqu'au burlesque.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2008-11-19
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Lost in Transit
Overview: A traveller who has lost his passport in a Paris airport while between flights is restricted to a special transit zone. There he finds a group of similarly lost people hiding out and living from hand-to-mouth, reliant on their ingenuity to survive.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1993-09-01
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The Elk
Overview: Comedy fuses with science fiction in this quirky film about the chaos that ensues when an “elk” (in fact, a tall individual who wears a coat, does not speak, and has an elk’s head and antlers) emerges from the forest near a small town. Accepted by a family who interacts with him as if nothing is unusual, they initially shelter their guest from their neighbors. But not for long!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2016-12-28
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Our Dream Lives
Overview: Bénédicte, Martine, and Juliette were classmates who formed an inseparable trio. Fifteen years later, Bénédicte and Martine return to their small native town of Pithiviers for Juliette's funeral. But Juliette remains present in Bénédicte and Martine's remembrances and through her eighteen-year-old daughter Scarlett, who bears a striking resemblance.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2004-04-06
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Actors
Overview: Les Acteurs is the absurd story of Jean-Pierre Marielle desperately waiting for a cup of hot water, the story of a conspiracy against actors, the story of aging actors whose careers are slowly less active than they used to be, but a stunning tribute to French actors and their cinema.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2000-04-05
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Entre Écume et nuages
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2024-10-13
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Mauvaise Pioche
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
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