
Birthday:
05-23-1948
(76 years)
Birthplace:
Lyon, Rhône, France
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Born for Hell
Act like Leila
event1976 star_border 5.7
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Loosely based on the notorious Richard Speck murders, this is the grim tale of a disturbed Vietnam vet returning home via Belfast, who invades a house shared by eight nurses and proceeds to terrorize and murder them.
Jonah Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000
Act like Mathilde
event1976 star_border 7
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A look at the lives of several men and women in their 30s as they confront the slim gains of the "revolutionary" sixties. Max, a dissatisfied copy editor; Myriam, a redhead into tantric sex; and Marie, a supermarket checker who gives unauthorized discounts to the elderly, search for renewed meaning on a communal farm. The title character, a six-year-old child, is the carrier of their hopes for the future.
Uranus
Act like Mme Gaigneux
event1990 star_border 6.6
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After World War II, a small French village struggles to put the war behind as the controlling Communist Party tries to flush out Petain loyalists. The local bar owner, a simple man who likes to write poetry, who only wants to be left alone to do his job, becomes a target for Communist harassment as they try and locate a particular loyalist, and he pushes back.
Crossed Tracks
Act like La mère d'Huguette
event2007 star_border 6.6
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The successful novelist Judith Ralitzer is interrogated in the police station about the disappearance of her ghost-writer. A serial-killer escapes from a prison in Paris. A missing school teacher leaves his wife and children. In the road, the annoying and stressed hairdresser Hughette is left in a gas station by her fiancé Paul while driving to the poor farm of her family in the country. A mysterious man offers a ride to her and she invites him to assume the identity of Paul during 24 hours to not disappoint her mother. Who might be the unknown man and what is real and what is fiction?
Solemn Communion
Act like Léone Gravet-Rux
event1977 star_border 4.5
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In this complex chronicle of the evolution of a provincial family's life, the story follows three generations of at least two neighboring families from the 1890s to the 1970s. In one of many related tales, a man who was engaged to the older daughter of a farmer elopes with the younger one. After many years and the birth of five children, the man leaves his wife and family for the bright lights of the city but continues turning up from time to time, until he is finally taken into the home of one of his sons when he is a quite old man. The complex interactions of the legitimate and illegitimate children of a womanizing miner give rise to yet another set of related stories.
Golden Eighties
Act like Sylvie
event1986 star_border 6.5
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Three young women at a hair salon all like the son of the clothing store proprietors across the mall. Although Robby is selfish and shallow, he's appealing to Lili, the salon's manager, who's trendy and also the salon-owner's moll; to Mado, who's innocent and sweet; and to Pascale, who's intelligent but passive and downcast. Robby's dad tells him to grow up and see beyond the mercurial Lili, so he proposes suddenly to Mado. She's delighted, but the day before the wedding, Lili returns to give Robby another look. In the background, a Yank who was a soldier in France in World War II returns to Paris and tries to recapture the love of his wartime sweetheart, Robby's mom.
One, Two, Three, Freeze
Act like La mère / The mother
event1993 star_border 6.4
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A provocative, seemingly absurd patchwork movie which sends a worthwhile message about hope against all odds, love, children and human understanding. Schoolgirl Victorine has an insane mother and an alcoholic father who can never find his way home in their maze of slum apartment blocks. Aggressive, sexually threatening boys of all ages are everywhere, and while the teacher eventually relents to a gang of adolescent rapists, Victorine gives herself to a rowdy gang of older layabouts, eventually winning the heart of burglar Paul.
Serie Noire
Act like Jeanne
event1979 star_border 7.4
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Franck Poupart is a slightly neurotic door-to-door salesman in a sinister part of Paris' suburbs. He meets Mona, a teenager, who's been made a prostitute by her own aunt. Franck would like to change his life and also save Mona from her aunt. Murder is the only solution.
Take It from the Top
Act like Alice
event1978 star_border 5.4
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Tired of being a housewife, Annie wants to work. Between her professional life and her responsibilities as a parent, she can no longer cope. She decides to leave and starts writing a memoir of her life...
A Heart in Winter
Act like Madame Amet
event1992 star_border 7.2
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Beautiful violin virtuoso Camille has two obsessions: the music of Ravel, and a friend of her husband's who crafts violins. But his heart seems to be as cold as her playing is passionate.
T'aime
Act like Christine
event2000 star_border 2.2
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Zef, twenty years old, is a simple-minded man who can only say one word: "love you". Always happy, loving everyone, he lives with his sister Sophie on a farm in the Lot. Attracted by the sad smile of Marie, he rapes her one evening without realizing the gravity of his act. Commited in a psychiatric asylum, Zef falls into a deep silence. Hugues, a doctor with avant-garde methods, is in charge of caring for Marie. He decides to confront her with Zef, convinced that her healing goes through a long reappropriation of life and love.
The Clink of Ice
Act like Le cancer de Louisa
event2010 star_border 5.9
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An alcoholic writer is visited by an incarnation of his cancer.
Father
Act like Suzy Benchetritt
event2011 star_border 5.5
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Monsieur Papa is a moving portrait of a modern family, centering around 12 year-old Marius Vallois. Born in a wealthy family, Marius is the son of Marie Vallois, a successful CEO. Marie loves her son unconditionally, but Marius has never known his father and suffers greatly from it. When Marius starts shoplifting and doing badly at school, Marie decides to recruit a father figure for him. One day in her office building, she meets Robert Pique. Robert is a peculiar man who has a background in finance, but makes ends meet ironing clothes for his neighbors. Reluctant at first, Robert agrees to be paid to meet Marius and pretends to be his father. Marius immediately understands that Robert is not his dad, but very quickly, a deep bond develops between them.
L'Hôtel de la plage
Act like Aline Dandrel
event1978 star_border 5.6
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Visitors young and old get up to fun antics and romance at a seaside hotel in Brittany, France.
Les enfants de Charlotte
Act like Yvonne Larmant
event2003
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Charlotte is satisfied. She is in the process of experiencing a promotion in the company where she works as a senior executive. Everything would be fine if Charlotte didn't have a sister, a mother of three who left without leaving an address a few years ago. Since then, it is Yvonne, the mother of the two young women, who took care of raising Pierre, Louise and Antoine. However, one fine day, Antoine's father appears...
Long Live Life
Act like Pauline
event1984 star_border 5.9
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The movie starts with an interview with director Claude Lelouch. He pleads viewers not to disclose the plot of the movie after leaving the projection room. Even the movie's trailer shows only a long sequence of faces gazing speechlessly in space. "Like all my movies, this one is about a man and a woman", says Lelouch in the interview.
La Mort amoureuse
Act like Marie
event1977
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A young woman, elegant, cold and inhuman, who is none other than Death, reigns over a universe dominated by electronics, the firm Thanatos Unlimited Corporation. A file in a computer and life stops. But death is also capable of knowing love. Thus she keeps Robert, a worker in eternal youth and forces him to love her until he falls in love with Marie, a barmaid. But can we defy Death with impunity?
Le monde à l'envers
Act like Mado
event2012 star_border 4
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Mado works at a supermarket. At 56 years old, she needs the job, but after being forced to use a goofy hat, she escapes to visit her son.
L'amerloque
event1996 star_border 6.5
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A young black American is hired as an au pair to look after a sulky French teenager.
Forever Young
Act like Nicole
event2022 star_border 5.7
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Alex, whose singing career can't manage to succeed, accepts a strange job : to make a pensionner choir sing nursery rhymes. She finds out a bunch of out of control old people who dream of singing rock and roll music ! Her mission will be more complicated than expected...
The Life Before Us
Act like madame Rosa
event2010 star_border 6
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Re-adaptation of the novel by Emile Ajar (Romain Gary). The story of the Arab orphan boy Momo and the aged prostitute Madame Rosa, who survived Auschwitz.
Tricky Old Dogs 2
Act like Berthe Goitreux
event2022 star_border 5.4
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To come to the aid of migrants he was hiding in Paris, Pierrot takes them to the South-West to Antoine, who himself is already welcoming Mimile, in the midst of reconquering love for Berthe. Expecting to find calm and voluptuousness in the countryside, the six refugees will taste above all the legendary hospitality of a French village. The perfect opportunity to shake up fears and prejudices for Sophie and our three Old Furnaces, promoted to unexpected consultants of an electoral campaign that Larquebuse, the mayor of Montcoeur is not about to forget.
C'est magnifique !
Act like Félicie
event2022 star_border 5.6
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When Pierre learns that his parents are not his parents, he wants to find out who he is and where he comes from. Raised in nature, Pierre has never been confronted with society. He does not know the codes. He will team up with Anna who will help him in his quest and cross a whole gallery of characters as funny as tender. But during his investigation, Pierre will lose his colors – like a photo that fades.
Nausicaa
Act like Rosalie
event1971 star_border 6.6
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A girl, whose father is from Greece, studies ancient art in France. The film was made for television but never broadcast for political reasons related to its portrayal of Greeks. A work print was screened in Belgium in 1971, and the film is now available in reconstructed form.
La mère Christain
Act like 'La mère Christain'
event1998
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In industrial Lyon of the early '50s, a widowed bar-owner listens to radio crime serials, reads detective magazines, and grieves for her daughter, killed two years earlier in a mineshaft accident. Consumed by her loss and unwilling to face the truth, the bar-owner becomes suspicious of the grim patrons in her drab tavern, seeking someone to blame as she contemplates revenge.
Le voyage à Paimpol
Act like Maryvonne
event1985
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The dream, which filled half of her life, was no longer enough for Maryvonne. She leaves her husband, child, lover and leaves for Paimpol. And there, it's a breath of fresh air in the form of real life, reality finally joins the dream.
The Crime Is Mine
Act like Concierge Mrs Jus
event2023 star_border 6.4
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In 1930s Paris, Madeleine, a pretty, young, penniless, and talentless actress, is accused of murdering a famous producer. Helped by her best friend, Pauline, a young, unemployed lawyer, she is acquitted on the grounds of self-defense. A new life of fame and success begins, until the truth comes out.
Mesrine: Killer Instinct
Act like Mesrine's mother
event2008 star_border 7.3
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Jacques Mesrine, a loyal son and dedicated soldier, is back home and living with his parents after serving in the Algerian War. Soon he is seduced by the neon glamour of sixties Paris and the easy money it presents. Mentored by Guido, Mesrine turns his back on middle class law-abiding and soon moves swiftly up the criminal ladder.
Itinéraires
Act like Mme Chougny
event2005 star_border 5
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It is the end of the judicial control of Thierry Chartier, 18 years old. He was a virgin in Heuzecourt, a small village in the north of France populated by farmers and retired miners, where his paternal grandmother lived. He earns his living by helping out in the fields, he helps his grandmother, and would like to take over the farm. But, following an incident, he is condemned to seven years of criminal imprisonment, for complicity of murder, Thierry leaves on parole with an English diploma and a tattoo. But above all a guilt forever anchored. It is now up to him to rebuild his life.
The Scorched Triangle
event1975 star_border 1
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The 22-year-old Sabine is married to 38 years old Jacques. They have a child. Their emotional life becomes monotonous and she gets bored more and more. So she takes a lover, Pierre, whom she meets in the underground parking lot of the building. Jacques has his doubts about this relationship and says nothing. He hopes to save his family and regain Sabine.
La tuile à loups
Act like Maryse
event1972 star_border 7
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Winter 1970, France. In a small village covered in snow, an outcast bonesettler starts predicting the return of wolves in the area, but nobody wants to believe his superstitious omens. Until one day, a young man is attacted by a wolf.
Death by Death
Act like Monique Peneud
event2016 star_border 5.1
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A man's hypochondriacal relationship with his mother.
The Woman with Red Hair
Act like Jeanne Naudy
event2016 star_border 5.7
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In Saint Gilles, in the Brionnais, country of churches that invites serenity, the atmosphere becomes gradually agonizing, the past playing with the present. Antoine, a reporter and then a volunteer in the humanitarian field, returned to France after experiencing terrible events in Mali. He is at Saint Gilles to write an article on Romanesque Art. He meets Constance, the very attractive adoptive daughter of the owner of the inn, Mrs. Naudy. Constance also has its secret. She tries to discover the truth about the death of her parents Eva and Louis Lacassan, a truth that has been hidden from her for too long. And then there is Juju who says to see the ghost of Eva, the woman with the red hair. A track in Constance's investigation? Between Antoine and Constance, these two wounded beings, weave little by little a story that may help them to go to the end of their adventure.
Double Lover
Act like Rose
event2017 star_border 6.1
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Chloé, a fragile young woman, falls in love with her psychoanalyst, Paul. A few months later she moves in with him, but soon discovers that her lover is concealing a part of his identity.
The Old Country Where Rimbaud Died
Act like Jeanne
event1977 star_border 5.2
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A middle-aged man travels to France and is discouraged by the attitudes of the people concerning his native land until he meets and begins relationships with two lonely women.
All the Mornings of the World
Act like Guignotte
event1991 star_border 7.1
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Following the death of his wife, a renowned musician ostracises himself from the outer world and dedicates his life to music. However, his life changes when a young man approaches him to learn music.
Le voyage d'Amélie
Act like Solange
event1974
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In this gentle comedy, a disaffected group of young people bungle their first hold-up when the old lady they choose to rob turns out to be even poorer than they are. Not only that, but her husband has died, and she needs to get his body back to his hometown for burial and she is getting no help from the state. The would-be robbers good-naturedly agree to help her, and have a series of odd adventures involving the old lady, the corpse, and themselves. Eventually, the old lady dies as well, and they are really in a pickle.
Shattered Lives
Act like La mère de Georges
event1994
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August 1939. The fate of four young people, Ramona, Georges, Brigitte and Hans is upset by the outbreak of war.
The Telegram
Act like Blanche
event2003 star_border 5
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Two women in a French village during World War 2 anxiously await a letter which may or may not be arriving for either of them.
Tricky Old Dogs
Act like Berthe
event2018 star_border 5.8
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Two septuagenarians go to Tuscany to prevent their old friend from killing the man who cuckolded him fifty years ago.
The Man Who Came From Elsewhere
Act like Clémence
event2004 star_border 6
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At the end of 19th century, Doctor Pierre Adélaïde, born in Martinique, gets to a small village in Charente to take over from a colleague. Soon, he is facing something else than racism: fear of foreigner. His office is desperately empty.
Rookies Go to War
Act like Philippine Brugnon
event1974 star_border 6.2
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A Grand Slapstick comedy about four buddies serving in the army. Their long-suffering sergeant attempts to whip them into shape but the conflict spirals out of control.
Mesrine: Public Enemy #1
Act like Mesrine's mother
event2008 star_border 7.3
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After nearly two decades of legendary criminal feats, making him France's most notorious criminal while simultaneously feeding his desire for media attention and public adoration, Mesrine becomes increasingly paranoid and isolated, leading to a dramatic confrontation with the law that ultimately seals his fate as the nation's most infamous public enemy.
Vincent, Francois, Paul and the Others
Act like Laurence
event1974 star_border 7
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Three friends navigate mid-life crises: a blocked writer, a disillusioned doctor, and a charming man facing bankruptcy and divorce. As their struggles strain friendships, a younger man captures the attention of one friend's wife, complicating their lives further.
Too Beautiful for You
Act like Geneviève
event1989 star_border 6.4
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A car dealer, well-to-do and with a beautiful wife, finds himself attracted to his rather plain new temporary secretary. Despite her own commitments she feels the same and the two soon embark on an affair. Though it would seem it has happened before his wife finds this particular entanglement of her husband's very difficult to accept.
Those Were the Days
Act like Bertrand's mother
event1995 star_border 5.9
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The grueling, emotionally torturous world of French preparatory schools provides the framework for this mystery. The deliberately rigorous courses are designed to prepare students to take the brutal examinations for entry into the elite Grand Ecoles, where a select few will gain the skills and education needed to insure a bright, prosperous future for themselves. The story centers on Delphine, a girl from the lower classes, and the upper class Claude. Both young women aspire to attend the Ecole Normale Superieure on the Rue d'Ulm. Delphine lives in humble public housing with her dull mother and two young brothers while Claude, who considers herself a Communist, lives in luxury with her own servant; she is sexually involved with fellow- student, Axel, who thinks himself a fascist.
Now, Daphne
event2019
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Daphné, who cut off contact with her family 20 years ago, decides to come back and see her mother, Claudine. She fears the reunion and hope Claudine will put up with who she is now.
A Slightly Pregnant Man
Act like Ninon Barbeau
event1973 star_border 5.7
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Marco Mazzetti, a driving instructor, lives with his wife Irène and their young son. After a series of nauseous dizzy spells he goes to the doctor and discovers that he is four-months pregnant. Marco then becomes internationally famous.
Sous les vents de Neptune
Act like Clémentine
event2008 star_border 8
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Commissioner Adamsberg and his team are undergoing training supervised by the Quebec scientific police. He discovers the murder of a young girl.
L'été de Zora
Act like Armelle
event1994
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Zora, a young girl who has never left the suburbs, spends her summer vacation with a family who lives on a farm. There she discovers a new world.
the famous escapes
Act like Charlotte (1 ep.)
event1972 star_border 5
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From Bonaparte to Casanova, history is cast in the light of famous escapes from various European countries.
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
Act like Self (2 ep.)
event1975 star_border 6
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A talk show presented by Michel Drucker
The Traveller
Act like Marie-Ange Saunier 2020 (1 ep.)
event2019 star_border 7
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Hunting down killers to help bereaved families get justice is more than just a job; it’s a duty for Thomas Bareski, a retired, hotshot police detective eager to reopen unsolved murder cases in a mission to find the culprits.
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