Michaël Youn
Also Known As: Michaël Benayoun
Biography: Michaël Benayoun (born 1973), known professionally as Michaël Youn, is a French actor, singer, comedian and television personality. Youn was born Michaël Benayoun in Suresnes, France, to a family of Hungarian, Italian, Moroccan-Jewish, and Algerian-Jewish descent. After his education as an announcer and theater actor, Youn joined the Paris radio station Skyrock in 1998. There, he made sketches and further entertainment during the morning show. The popularity and success of Michael Youn, at the most important French private broadcast station brought Youn to the attention of French TV executives. In July 2000, he was hired for the new morning show "Morning Live" shown on Métropole 6. With Vincent Desagnat and Benjamin Morgaine, Youn did the entertainment part of the show. Like their sketches and public events (e.g. foam bath in a Paris fountain, and waking random Parisians up shooting the slogan of the show at them), their parodies were particularly successful. In particular, they parodied the music scene of Jean-Michel Jarre, casting-popstars, the Grand Prix and French rappers. The success of "Morning Live" was mainly due to Youn and his colleagues – when they left the show, it remained on the air for just one more year. After leaving "Morning Live" in 2002, Youn, Desagnat and Morgaine have focused on their music parodies: The three sailors "Piotr", "Olaff" and "Dvorjak" from the Eastern European "Slowakistan", the Bratisla Boys, appeared on the Western music market with their song "Stach Stach". The act became a big success and was number one on the French charts for ten weeks. On a 2004 list of the all-time best selling CDs in France, "Stach Stach" was listed number 30. The success even spread beyond the French border and reached Switzerland, where it was 2nd on the official charts. On 7 July 2002, the project was stopped by its makers. They claimed that the Bratisla Boys had vanished on the Dead Sea without a trace. In 2003, the film "La Beuze", written by Youn and Desagnat, was released. Youn played the character of Alphonse, the "unknown son" of James Brown, who tries to start his own career – by creating a new (fictional) style called "Frunkp" (a mixture of funk and rap). The song "Le Frunkp" was published as a CD-single and Michaël Youn (under the name of Alphonse Brown) had another hit. This time, he even reached #1 in Swiss charts. Youn had a comedy-tour, called Pluskapoil in 2003/04 (its sequel followed in 2005) and has acted in films. New music projects followed: Les Conards (The Imbeciles) with Comme des Connards, a cover version of My Sharona by The Knack, as well as a song for the movie Iznogoud (both were in the French Top 20). He had small roles in rather big films, and was part of Les 11 commandements in 2004 (A French film done in the style of MTV's Jackass, together with Desagnat and Morgaine). In 2005, Youn was Iznogoud in the film version of the comic "Iznogoud" (also known as Isnogud). In 2006, he had the main role in the film comedy Incontrôlable. Those two films were not very successful, critics and viewers finding them only so-so. Both films starred Desagnat and Morgaine, but only in small roles. In 2010, he directed his first movie "Fatal" in which he also stars. ... Source: Article "Michaël Youn" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Suresnes, Hauts-de-Seine, France
Birthday: December 02, 1973
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Gender: Male
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Paris Express
Overview: From multicultural Paris to designer Paris, Montmartre to the Champs-Elysées, sleazy sidewalks to high-end galleries... Watch out! Sam the courier is a man on a mission! On his scooter, Sam breaks every rule of the road to make good on the "express delivery" promise of the courier service he works for. But however hard he tries, Sam never gets a bonus from his boss, never beats his slicker colleagues and never gets past his Dad, a cop who books him every time. All Sam has up is Nadia, and she will turn on him if he doesn't show up for her sister's wedding. Trouble is, Sam has one more delivery to make and his day has just gone from bad to worse...
Genres: Comedy Action Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2010-02-24
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Lucky Luke
Overview: Fearless gunslinger, Lucky Luke, is ordered by the President to bring peace to Daisy Town.
Genres: Comedy Western Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2009-10-21
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Incontrôlable
Overview: Georges, one morning, became uncontrollable despite himself. Something that has the donkey's voice in Shrek, can control his body.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2006-02-08
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Can You Keep a Secret?
Overview: Delphine passes herself off as her boss's lover.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2008-05-07
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Superpapa
Overview: Since the death of his wife, Christophe is a control freak. When a supervisor is declared absent for the snow holiday camp right before Christmas, Christophe volunteers, but his son Victor and Marina the biology teacher are not too enthusiastic about it. Christophe feels confident until he is gifted with a mysterious power: he can hear the teenagers' every thoughts.
Genres: Comedy Romance TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2023-11-07
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Les Enfoirés - Les Enfoirés en chœur de 1985 à aujourd'hui
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Genres: Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2014-12-13
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Fatal
Overview: Fatal... a diminutive for Fatal Bazooka, a bling-bling and hardcore rapper. A huge music star. Millions of fans, tens of hits, 4 « Artist of the year » Music Awards of Music, a range of fashion, a magazine, and soon his own amusement park : Fataland. He is the undisputed number one, until...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2010-06-16
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The 11 Commandments
Overview: After an evening of drinking, six men find themselves in front of The God of the Joke. Distressed to find that people aren't laughing anymore, He gives the six friends a mission: to save the world with the Eleven Commandments of the Joke. The men enthusiastically take on their task. They undertake various tests aimed at pushing the limits of stupidity.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2004-02-04
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Iznogoud
Overview: In Baghdad the Magnificent reigns Haroun al Plassid, who is the Caliph. There also dwells Iznogoud, who wants to be the Caliph. The irascible Grand Vizier hatches plot after plot to remove his ruler and take his place—melting Djinn, invisibility spell, cursed diamond, voodoo doll… But no amount of cunning or obstinacy can make up for sheer, hilariously bad luck.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2005-01-19
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Chouchou
Overview: Choukri, alias Chouchou, a transvestite Maghrebi with clear eyes, comes illegally to Paris to find his nephew. Hired as an assistant by a psychotherapist, known for his good mood, he also work as a waiter in a transvestite cabaret of Clichy where he meets Stanislas.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2003-03-19
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The Dope
Overview: Alphonse Brown, who firmly believes he is the bastard son of James Brown, meets up with his best friend Scotch after Brown gets out of jail. On their way to Paris to begin careers as recording artists, the pair stumbles across a potent type of marijuana that was engineered by the Nazis. Their decision to begin selling the stuff leads to a variety of people chasing after them.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2003-02-05
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Philosophale
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Genres: Crime Action Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2001-01-01
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The Car Keys
Overview: Who would think losing car keys could lead us that far ? Be careful, adventure is on every street corner...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2003-12-10
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Le Débarquement
Overview: Inspired by the American program Saturday Night Live from NBC, around thirty actors take part in various humorous sketches.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2013-01-18
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Le Chef
Overview: A veteran chef faces off against his restaurant group's new CEO, who wants to the establishment to lose a star from its rating in order to bring in a younger chef who specializes in molecular gastronomy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2012-03-07
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One Stays, the Other Leaves
Overview: A story about two couples, longtime friends in which both husbands engage in long-term affairs and, as the title says, ultimately one remains with his wife and one makes a new life with another woman.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2005-01-12
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Héros
Overview: A comedian kidnaps a singer and keeps him in his apartment.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2007-06-20
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Michaël Youn - Pluskapoil
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2005-11-03
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They Love Each Other... Well, Almost!
Overview: Follows the intertwined stories of five couples and their entourage, living in the same opulent Parisian building, over the four seasons of the year.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2022-03-30
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BDE
Overview: The story of four lifelong friends who met in the 2000s when they were presidents of the BDE of the Nantes Institute of Business. At the time, they were the "Bioman": the kings of partying, excess and "transmutation". 20 years later, they have mellowed out and lead well-ordered lives. Except... Once a year, when they get together for the WEB: the Bioman Weekend. There, they "transmute" hard as they like to say. In short: they drink and sing in a pathetic way.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2023-01-20
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Jamel et ses amis au Marrakech du rire 2013
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2013-06-20
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Vive la France
Overview: Muzafar and Feruz are two easy going shepherds from Taboulistan, a tiny country in Asia that is unknown to the rest of the world. To alert the world to his country’s existence, the son of Taboulistan’s president decides to instigate a program of publicity terrorism. To that end, he recruits our two naive shepherds, their mission: to destroy the Eiffel Tower! But the France that Muzafar and Feruz discover is far from what they had expected...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2013-02-20
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The Box
Overview: A guy has to move out in a day, completely unprepared, and drive his mum to the airport. Completely stressed out, he calls his friends for help. Short notice however results in all his friends making it with an agenda of their own.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2004-10-06
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Le Débarquement 2
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2013-12-20
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Maman, ne me laisse pas m'endormir
Overview: Juliette discovers that her teenage son, whom she thought was flourishing, is in reality undermined by a deep malaise and that he has become dangerously dependent on drugs. Determined to get him out of his deadly addiction, and driven by her unconditional love, she embarks on a long and painful fight, alongside her child, without ever giving up on saving him.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2022-10-18
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Arnaud Ducret dans tous ses états
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2022-08-16
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Family Business
Overview: Brothers Yvan and Max are total opposites. One is a hypochondriac; the other, a carefree optimist. Their little sister Hélène suffers from kidney problems and urgently needs a transplant. Both are called upon but only one will be chosen.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2014-12-03
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Les Enfoirés 2024 - On a 35 ans !
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Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2024-03-01
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The World Upside Down
Overview: A Parisian trader who – after losing everything – is forced to take refuge on a country farm with his wife and child.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2024-10-16
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Les Enfoirés 2015 - Sur la route des Enfoirés
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Genres: Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2015-03-13
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Vivre c'est mieux que mourir
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2006-05-05
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Le Pire du Morning Live 2
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2007-10-31
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Les 11 commandements inédits
Overview: The world is going bad, humans are no longer laughing, the situation is serious. the god of jokes has only one solution: michaël youn and his gang! their mission: to accomplish the 11 commandments of jokes in order to put people back on the right track of laughter by pushing back the limits of stupidity. waltzing in weightlessness at an altitude of 15,000 meters, flooding a house to turn it into a swimming pool, rollerblading under sleeping pills.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2004-02-04
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The Gardener
Overview: Every year the Prime Minister has a list of all kinds of troublemakers eliminated in the name of the famous Reason of State. Serge Shuster, Special Adviser to the President of the Republic, finds himself on this list, better known as the Matignon List. Condemned to certain death and at the heart of an implacable plot and a state secret that also put his family in danger, Serge, his wife and children have only one hope left - their gardener, Léo, who hates it when « slugs » invade his garden... Especially those that want to kill innocent families.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2025-01-30
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Around the World in 80 Days
Overview: A bet pits a British inventor, a Chinese thief and a French artist on a worldwide adventure that they can circle the globe in 80 days.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-06-16
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The Canterville Ghost
Overview: In the depths of a British legend, the ghost of Eleanor Canterville is condemned to haunt the castle of his family and to scare away any inhabitant. It fulfills this task perfectly, helped by Gwilherm, his faithful servant. But when Otis, a family fleeing Parisian life, buy the castle, Eleanor is upset because she cannot scare this tribe of the twenty-first century. Worse yet, children ridicule and parents are unaware. Only Virginia Otis, aged fifteen, moved by the fate of Canterville Ghost, will seek to deliver from curse on it.
Genres: Fantasy Comedy Family
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2016-04-06
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Florence Foresti & Friends
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2008-09-25
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Bazooka
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
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Comme un œuf
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2025-07-16
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Carbone
Overview: In danger of losing his business, Anthony Roca, an ordinary man, develops a scam that will become the heist of the century. Overtaken by the crime, he will have to deal with betrayal, murder and settling.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2017-11-01
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Les Enfoirés 2017 - Mission Enfoirés
Overview: In January 2017, Les Enfoirés set the Zénith in Toulouse alight with seven exceptional concerts. Faithful to the cause started by Coluche in 1985, thirty-seven renowned artists answered his call, in a festive and warm atmosphere. This year, Les Enfoirés made their revolution and offered a collective show punctuated by 17 tableaux as poetic as they were spectacular through the ages. The entire troupe invites us on March 3 to set sail aboard the liner "Mission Enfoirés" for a cruise with Gérard Jugnot as captain, in search of his sweetheart...
Genres: Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2017-03-03
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Sahara
Overview: A young cobra and his scorpion best friend go on a journey across the Sahara desert to save a new-found love.
Genres: Adventure Animation Comedy Family
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2017-02-01
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Wok the Kasbah
Overview: A funny comedy about the war suddenly started between two restaurant owners families.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2011-12-13
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Brillantissime
Overview: After getting dumped on Christmas Eve, Angela must rebuild her life surrounded by her rebellious teenager, her tyrannical mother, her hysterical best friend, and a weird psychologist.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2018-01-17
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Le Pire du Morning Live
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2006-11-19
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Mon frère bien-aimé
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Genres: Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2016-08-26
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Jamel et ses amis au Marrakech du rire 2015
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2015-06-14
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Christ(Off)
Overview: At 33 years old, and after numerous failed attempt to make it as a musician, Chris still lives with his mother. One day he crosses paths with a young missionary in need of a guitarist for his new religious band, he recruits Chris and disguises him as Father Christophe.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2018-07-11
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Watch Me Burn
Overview: After being bullied for months at school, 16-year-old Jonathan douses himself with gasoline and lights a match. Now, in an induced coma, his body covered in burns, his life is on hold, his parents are in shock and the school is in turmoil.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2018-11-05
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Deux gouttes d'eau
Overview: A woman's dead body is found in her apartment on a winter morning. All the evidence points to her fiancé. But he has an identical twin brother. The detectives have to go beyond appearances and defeat their demons to find the true murderer.
Genres: Mystery Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2018-10-19
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No Filter
Overview: Beatrice celebrates with her family the release of her book: she tells about the accident of her husband Frederic. He became blind and without filter - always so funny and seductive, he is totally unpredictable. But this book, hymn-to-life, will turn into a joyful fist because if Beatrice changed the names, each of his friends seeks to find his character. The book awakens secret jealousies, while the group of friends and family pitch.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2019-04-03
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Disney : Au Cœur de la Magie des Parcs
Overview: A documentary about the history of The Walt Disney Company and its theme parks.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2015-07-17
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Enfoirés Kids
Overview: Dans l’œil des Enfoirés est le vingt-et-unième album des Enfoirés, enregistré lors de leurs sept concerts à l’Arena Montpellier du mercredi 26 janvier au lundi 31 janvier 2011.
Genres: Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2017-12-01
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Meet the Malawas
Overview: A news anchor, a comedian, an actress, and a soccer player with big egos have to travel across the globe to meet the Malawa tribe for a TV show.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2019-12-25
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Les Enfoirés jouent le jeu
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Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2019-11-30
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Lucky
Overview: Willy and Tony have a brilliant idea for getting out of it financially: stealing a dog from the brigade des stups. But everything does not go as planned and the two accomplices will have to rely on the most corrupt of the cops.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2020-02-26
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Divorce Club
Overview: After 5 years of marriage, Ben is still madly in love. Until the day he discovers in public that his wife is cheating on him: humiliated and dumped in the process.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2020-07-14
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Les Enfoirés 2020 - Le Pari(s) des Enfoirés
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Genres: Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2020-03-06
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Les Enfoirés 2016 - Au rendez-vous des Enfoirés
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Genres: Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2016-03-11
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Les Enfoirés 2014 - Bon anniversaire Les Enfoirés
Overview: Show recorded at the Zénith in Strasbourg on January 19 and 20, 2014 for the benefit of the Restos du Coeur.
Genres: Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2014-03-14
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Les Enfoirés 2018 - Musique !
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Genres: Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2018-03-09
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Michael Youn - Du Morning Live à Divorce Club
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2020-03-19
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Le grand show des humoristes
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2020-06-18
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Rahan
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Genres: Comedy Adventure
Original Language: fr
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Connectés
Overview: On a Saturday night during lock down, a group of very good friends go online to share a virtual aperitif. Suddenly, one of them is attacked and kidnapped live by an unknown man in front of his friends who watch helplessly from behind their screens. They soon discover that this mysterious stranger knows all their worst secrets, which he intends to bring to light one after the other.
Genres: Comedy Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2020-11-12
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Les Enfoirés 2021 - Les Enfoirés à côté de vous
Overview: Les Enfoirés "À côté de toi" is the 31st album/show by Les Enfoirés, recorded from January 14 to 17, 20211 at Lyon's Halle Tony-Garnier. The show was recorded without an audience due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Genres: Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2021-03-05
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Muppets TV
Overview: Muppets TV is a French television series featuring the Muppets, which first broadcast over TF1 on October 29, 2006 and aired its last episode on December 31 of the same year.
Genres: Comedy Family TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2006-10-29
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The Crossing
Overview: Lola Arendt, 8, vanishes while on vacation on a wild Scottish island. Shattered by her disappearance, her parents, Sarah and Martin, separate. Two years later, Lola is found at the exact same spot. Martin returns to the island to bring her home. His delight at being reunited with Lola soon gives way to suspicion and fear. Why won't Lola talk? Who are these men watching them? What did Sarah know about Lola's disappearance? And who is beautiful and mysterious Norah Kross? When the weather conspires to stop them leaving, Martin and Lola embark on a journey across the island with Norah, headed for a tragic discovery...
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2012-10-31
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M'abandonne pas
Overview: How do you grow up into a well-functioning adult, when you are uprooted time and time again? It's a bitter dilemma that 12-year-old Achille knows all too well. After ten happy years, the young boy is torn from his foster family and sent to live with strangers. Meanwhile, his mother is trying desperately to regain custody of her son. Romain, the child welfare worker in charge of Achille's case, will fight hard to protect the hapless youngster and help him get through the painful new ordeals that lie ahead.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2021-04-01
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Les petits secrets de L'Équipe du Soir
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2022-02-22
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Les Enfoirés 2025 - Au pays des Enfoirés
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Genres: Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2025-03-07
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