
Birthday:
10-13-1965
(59 years)
Birthplace:
Rouen, Seine-Maritime, France
Biography
Philippe Torreton (born 13 October 1965, Rouen, Seine-Maritime, France) is a French actor.
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The Light
Act like Yvon Le Guen
event2004 star_border 6.9
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Camille arrives in Ouessant, the island of her birth off the Brittany coast, to sell the family home. She spends a last night in the house during which she discovers a secret. In 1963 a man came to work with her father, who was the Jument lighthouse operator. He only stayed two months, but his presence proved to be a disturbing catalyst.
A Cursed Monarchy
Act like Robert d'Artois
event2005 star_border 6
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It is the early 1300's and the treasury of France, under the rule of Philippe IV (Philippe le Bel or Philippe the Beautiful), is empty. The king decides the only solution is to raid the treasures of the Knights Templar (amongst others) and concocts various charges of treason, heresy and deviance against the Knights and their Grand Master Jacques de Molay. Having confessed under torture to the crimes of which he is accused, de Molay is condemned to be burned at the stake. With his dying breath he curses the king, the king's advisor (Guillaume de Nogaret), the pope (Pope Clement V) and the thirteen succeeding generations of their families. There follows one of the most dramatic periods in French history, half a century of political intrigue, murder, treason, war and famine, which ultimately culminates in the 100 Years War.
Sky Fighters
Act like Bertrand
event2005 star_border 6.1
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Two air force pilots prevent a terrorist attack on the Bastille Day celebrations in Paris.
The Green Deal
Act like Manzoni
event2024 star_border 6.7
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Carole tries to save the life of her son who has been wrongfully sentenced to death in a rigged trial.
It All Starts Today
Act like Daniel Lefebvre
event1999 star_border 7
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In a mining town which has been blighted by economic downturns, an elementary school headmaster struggles to obtain social services on behalf of his students.
District 13: Ultimatum
Act like Le Président de la République
event2009 star_border 6.4
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Damien and Leito return to District 13 on a mission to bring peace to the troubled sector that is controlled by five different gang bosses, before the city’s secret services take drastic measures to solve the problem.
Body to Body
Act like Marco
event2003 star_border 5.5
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Laura Bartelli is a stripper in a French bar. She retires after a moody landscape architect named Marco Tisserand asks her to abandon her life and share his. However, after her red Volkswagen runs off the road en route to the rendezvous, she ends up scarred and comatose in a hospital. Marco stays at her bedside.
Captain Conan
Act like Captain Conan
event1996 star_border 6.6
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The last days of World War I, Eastern front. Captain Conan, a lone wolf, a true warrior, leads a band of ruthless French fighters who love hand-to-hand combat; they are not fit for peacetime, they only feel really alive in the chaos of the battlefield.
Monsieur N.
Act like Napoléon Bonaparte
event2003 star_border 6.3
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This film covers the last years of the Emperor's life, imprisoned by the British on St Helena, a remote island off the west coast of Africa. Napoleon retains a loyal entourage of officers who help him plot his escape and evade the attentions of the island's overzealous governor, Sir Hudson Lowe.
The Great Meaulnes
Act like M. Seurel
event2006 star_border 5.4
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A coming-of-age story set in France in the years leading up to World War I. Two teenage boys experience love, loss, anguish and betrayal in a rural setting of great beauty.
L.627
Act like Antoine
event1992 star_border 7.1
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In Paris, Lulu, a passionate policeman, works with the faith of a rookie, despite the sclerotic bureaucracy and the incompetence or negligence of some of his colleagues. In his new position as a narcotics inspector, he tries to keep his sanity as he witnesses the worst of the human condition.
La Comédie-Française ou L'amour joué
Act like Self
event1996 star_border 5.5
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La Comédie-Française is the oldest continuous repertory company in the world, founded in Paris in the late 17th century. This is the first time a documentary film-maker has been allowed to look at all the aspects of the work of this great theatrical company. Sequences in the film include sections of plays, casting, set and costume design, administrative meetings and rehearsals and performances of four classic French plays, Don Juan by Molière, La Thebaide by Racine, La Double Inconstance by Marivaux and Occupe-toi d'Amelie by Feydeau. (Zipporah Films)
Forget Me
Act like Fabrice
event1995 star_border 5.8
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Nathalie is together with Antoine, who really loves her, despite her tendency to get away from him. Eric, the former partner of Nathalie, does not want to be with her anymore, but she can not accept this. In her despair, she tortures herself, Antoine, and Eric.
Ulzhan
Act like Charles
event2007 star_border 5.9
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Somewhere in the endless steppes of Central Asia lies a treasure. One man holds the key to it, a fragment of an ancient map. But in his restless quest, Charles isn't looking for fame or glory. He's looking for a way to heal his wounded soul. He's looking for love. Ulzhan felt it the first time she laid eyes on him.
Guilty
Act like Alain Marécaux
event2011 star_border 7.2
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Investigates the corrupt judicial system under which Alain Mar'caux and his wife Edith were arrested on accusations of pedophilia horrific acts they never committed- and the years he spent fighting to get out of prison, clear his name and keep his family.
1919-1939 : la drôle de paix
Act like Himself - Narrator (voice)
event2009 star_border 6
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For many French, who fought bravely, the First World War was to be the "all wars." Yet within two decades, Europe, and France in particular, was slipping again into the barbarism and cruelty of another conflict. The dreams of peace were dashed, and a new generation thrown into chaos. What sinister sequences preceded the Second World War? Back to the tragic events throughout the chronicle of a time nourished by passions and agitation, dominated by powerful personalities.
Felix and Lola
Act like Félix
event2001 star_border 6
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Félix, operator of dodgem cars in a fairground, becomes obsessed by one of his customers, a mysterious young woman named Lola. Félix soon discovers that Lola is running away from her former boyfriend, a singer who continues to taunt her. Lola asks Félix to prove his love for her by murdering a man he does not know...
Rebellion
Act like Christian Prouteau
event2011 star_border 6.7
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April 1988, Ouvéa Island, New Caledonia. 30 gendarmes are taken hostage by a group of Kanak freedom fighters. 300 soldiers are sent from France to re-establish order. 2 men confront each other: Philippe Legorjus, chief of the terrorist squad, and Alphonse Dianou, head of the kidnappers. Through their shared values, they will attempt to make discussion triumph. But, in the middle of a presidential election, when the stakes are political, order isn't always dictated by morality. A violent and troubling epic that marks the return of Mathieu Kassovitz in front and behind the camera.
Fresh Bait
Act like Chef de groupe crime
event1995 star_border 6.5
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With the ambition to start a boutique overseas but without the means to do so, Nathalie finds herself in a desperate situation, where she would do anything to acquire what she needs. Along with her boyfriend, Eric, and his friend Bruno, she concocts a plan where she seduces clueless men and accompanies them to their places, then allows Eric and Bruno to break in. But the three soon encounter trouble after one of their schemes ends in murder.
1914 the Glorious Summer
Act like Ernest Pailleron
event1996 star_border 4.9
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An old aristocrat, short of money, who does not accept the new world ruled by the bourgeois class ,epitomized by the industrialist and by the doctor who finally grabs the the aristocrat's castle which soon will be turned into a hospital.
The Black Angel
Act like Christophe
event1994 star_border 5.6
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Stephane, the wife of a prominent magistrate, shoots and kills a man in her home and claims he tried to rape her. While investigating her case, her lawyer becomes hopelessly enmeshed in a web of lies and subterfuges concerning her past.
Les enfants des justes
Act like Dr Dujarric
event2022 star_border 7.3
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In France in 1942. Blanche and Virgile live in the free zone and use a boat to help a local network of resistance fighters and refugees. One day the couple propose to take in Sarah, a Jewish child who is impatiently awaiting her parents
France, le fabuleux voyage
Act like Voix off
event2021 star_border 8
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Rather than learning France's history through its people, we explore its natural history. A two billion-year journey back in time to look at the country's geological heritage: a mountain chain becomes Brittany, lagoons where Paris now stands, ice from the Aiguille du Midi maps the routes of rivers flowing seawards.
La serva amorosa
Act like Arlequin
event1996
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Coraline, a young servant in love with Florindo, will thwart the plans of Beatrice, the second wife of Ottavio, father of Florindo, who wants to capture the legacy of Florindo for his own advantage and that of his own son.
Mood Indigo
Act like Jean-Sol Partre
event2013 star_border 6.1
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A woman suffers from an unusual illness caused by a flower growing in her lungs.
Jean Jaurès, naissance d'un géant
Act like Jean Jaurès
event2005 star_border 4.3
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In 1892, Jean Jaurès, a republican deputy from the bourgeoisie, supported the miners' strike in Carmaux, in the south of France.
The Art of Love
Act like Narrateur (voix)
event2011 star_border 5.9
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The Art of Love is composed of several chapters, which follows several Parisian couples.
Best Intentions
Act like himself
event2018 star_border 5.7
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A 50-year-old who is over-invested in humanitarian work is competing in the social center where she works. She will then embark her students in literacy class, with the help of a pretty foolish monitor, on the dangerous road of the code of the road.
Le Jeu de la mort
Act like Voix off
event2010 star_border 6.6
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The Game of Death is a documentary co-produced by France Télévisions and Radio Television Switzerland1 in 2009 and staging a fake game show (The Xtreme Zone) during which a candidate must send electric shocks increasingly strong candidate to another until voltages that can cause death. The staging reproduces the Milgram experiment carried out initially in the United States in 1960 to study the influence of authority on obedience: electric shocks are fictitious, an actor pretending to suffer, and objective is to test the ability to disobey the candidate who inflicts this treatment and who is not aware of the experiment. The notable difference with the original experience is that scientific authority is replaced by a television presenter, Tania Young.
Intime Conviction
Act like Paul Villers
event2014 star_border 5
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Philippe Villers, coroner, found his wife shot once in the head on his way home one evening. After investigation, Detective Judith Lebrun, define Villers as responsible for the murder.
Vertiges de l'amour
Act like Vincent
event2001 star_border 4.8
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A man has pre-wedding jitters on the eve before his marriage. His thoughts switch between sweet dreams and nightmares of a life with another woman.
Les Fourberies de Scapin
Act like Scapin
event1998 star_border 8.5
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Theater play "Les fourberies de Scapin" played by the "Comédie française" in 1998.
The Deep Dark
Act like Fouassier
event2023 star_border 5.8
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1956, in the north of France. A group of underground miners is forced to take a professor to take samples a thousand meters underground. After a landslide that prevents them from going back up, they discover a crypt from another time, and unknowingly awaken a legendary bloodthirsty creature.
State Crime
Act like Tournet
event2013 star_border 4
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State crime is a historic French telefilm, directed by Pierre Aknine and released January 29, 2013 on France 3. It discusses Robert Boulin case and supports the thesis of assassinat1.
La pièce manquante
Act like André Mouton
event2013 star_border 7.5
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Married for several years, Paula and André share a happy life with their two children in a small village in the countryside. But one morning, this peaceful life is turned upside down by the disappearance of Paula. In her farewell letter, she wrote these few words to explain her departure:
“I wished I would never leave, but it is decided. I need to do this, otherwise I will die.”
During that summer, André and the children will find each in his / her own way a remedy to deal with the pain of her absence and will set out on a quest for appeasement.
Flic tout simplement
Act like Commandant Cardella
event2015 star_border 6.6
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Serial killer Guy Georges' hunt by a female captain who created a DNA database that revolutionized the police methods.
Un pied dans le crime
event2010
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A judge is called upon to judge a crime of which he is the guilty party. This case of conscience, whether or not to confess his crime, is the pretext for many improbable acts of boorishness, a ferocious spectacle of human relations, unbearable to watch... if laughter were not there to detach us from it.
The Children of Chance
Act like Docteur Daviel
event2016 star_border 6.8
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In the backdrop of the Nazi occupation of France, taken to the hospital for a broken leg from an accident, twelve-year-old Maurice Gutman is narrowly spared from the mass roundup that will take his family from him and leave them imprisoned in a distant death camp. At the hospital, Dr. Daviel diagnoses him with tuberculosis and imposes a long treatment, perhaps a humane ruse to prevent him from being deported. Over the course of two years, while living with the hospital staff, Maurice and eight other young boarders unforgettably experience friendship, solidarity and extraordinary courage. These are the children of luck.
Sooner or Later
Act like Éric
event2000 star_border 7
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A musician leaves his wife in Prague, comes back to his native France and meets a singer.
A New Life
Act like Fred
event1993 star_border 4.7
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In a shock after her mother’s sudden death, warehouse forklift driver Tina seeks out the rich, enigmatic businessman father she has never known and discovers a half-sister, Lise.
Free to Run
Act like Voix
event2016 star_border 7.2
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Free to Run tells the amazing story of the running movement over the past five decades, the struggle for the right to run - especially for women – against conservative Federations, the explosion of grass roots road races and marathons, until the boom of running as a vast business enterprise.
The Pianist's Choice
Act like Mr. Touraine
event2025 star_border 5.5
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During the Second World War, François Touraine, a young piano prodigy, has no choice but to go and play in Germany to save the woman he loves. Because Rachel is Jewish in an age that no longer allows it... A great story of love, music and resistance through time and the horrors of the Occupation and Nazism.
Le Temps de cerveau disponible
event2010 star_border 6.5
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Cruelty, psychological and sexual violence, humiliations: reality television seems to have gone mad. His debut in the early 2000s inaugurated a new era in the history of the audio-visual. Fifty years of archives trace the evolution of entertainment: how the staging of intimacy during the 80s opened new territories, how the privatization of the biggest channels has changed the relationship with the spectator. With the contribution of specialists, including philosopher Bernard Stiegler, this documentary demonstrates how emotion has made way for the exacerbation of the most destructive impulses.
Mélancolie ouvrière
Act like Charles Auda
event2018 star_border 5.1
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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.
Life Will Be Beautiful
Act like Raymond Bourcier
event2007 star_border 6
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Five young men from well-off families, whom fate never intended to be partisans in an occupied Paris, so different from one other and yet so close, reject the French defeat and resulting German occupation and decide to take on Nazi Germany.
Three Days and a Life
Act like Doctor Hubert Dieulafoy
event2019 star_border 6.4
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Christmas 1999, in a peaceful little village in the Ardennes. The life of a young boy named Antoine will soon be devastated by three tragic events : the death of a dog, the vanishing of a child, and a big ravaging storm.
An Irrepressible Woman
Act like Pierre Laval
event2020 star_border 5.3
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1940, Jeanne Reichenbach turns her back on a peaceful life to link her destiny to Léon Blum. She's been loving him since her teenage years, and is ready to sacrifice her freedom to mary him at Buchenwald, where he's held prisoner. They will survive together.
The Lives of Albert Camus
Act like Narrator
event2020 star_border 8
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Albert Camus died at 46 years old on January 4, 1960, two years after his Nobel Prize in literature. Author of “L'Etranger”, one of the most widely read novels in the world, philosopher of the absurd and of revolt, resistant, journalist, playwright, Albert Camus had an extraordinary destiny. Child of the poor districts of Algiers, tuberculosis patient, orphan of father, son of an illiterate and deaf mother, he tore himself away from his condition thanks to his teacher. French from Algeria, he never ceased to fight for equality with the Arabs and the Kabyle, while fearing the Independence of the FLN. Founded on restored and colorized archives, and first-hand accounts, this documentary attempts to paint the portrait of Camus as he was.
Genet à Tanger
Act like Jean Genet
event2020
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At the beginning of the 70s, Jean Genet is in Tangier, he is in his sixties and he no longer writes. He lives in the El Minza hotel, a palace, where he spends entire days reading, smoking and sleeping (he takes Nembutal, a barbiturate used as a sleeping pill). He only goes out at the beginning of the afternoon to have a coffee with milk in one of the bars of Petit Socco. He sometimes meets the young Moroccan writer Mohamed Choukri there. Their discussion is banal, friendly. Sometimes they talk about literature. Genet no longer writes, but is still inhabited by it.
La Traque
Act like Michel Fourniret
event2021 star_border 6.3
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The Belgian and French police investigate the activities of Michel Fourniret, a serial killer who was active on both sides of the border.
Simone: Woman of the Century
Act like André Perdriau
event2022 star_border 7.9
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Simone Veil's life story through the pivotal events of Twentieth Century. Her childhood, her political battles, her tragedies. An intimate and epic portrait of an extraordinary woman who eminently challenged and transformed her era defending a humanist message still keenly relevant today.
The French Revolution
Act like Narrator (voice) (2 ep.)
event2021 star_border 8
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This is the “embedded” French Revolution that we want to share: an exceptional, immersive experience seen through cameras that dive into the heart of history, following its every jolt. It's the story of the fall of the world's most glorious, most powerful ad most ancient monarchy.
The Accursed Kings
Act like Robert d'Artois (1 ep.)
event2005 star_border 4
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A sequence of seven episodes detailing the French monarchy.
The Queen and the Cardinal
Act like Cardinal Mazarin (2 ep.)
event2009 star_border 4
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In the middle of the 17th century, forbidden lovers Queen Anne of Austria, the widow of King Louis XIII, and her Prime Minister, Cardinal Mazarin, face the opposition of a revengeful and power-seeking Court.
Unfaithful
Act like Rodolphe (12 ep.)
event2019 star_border 4.7
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The story of Emma Sandrelli, a doctor who is close to her patients and caring mother, whose life is about to explode when she learns that her husband has had an affair with a young woman for several months. Then begins for her a real descent into hell that will lead her very, very far... Adaptation of the British series "Doctor Foster."
Seeds of Change
Act like Sosthène (6 ep.)
event2022 star_border 7
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Provence, 1847. The son of a wealthy landowner in the south of France, Jean-Baptiste, loses his mother in a tragic accident. His truculent father, who was always envious of his son and his relationship with his mother, takes a harlot he met a few months earlier as his new bride. Soon after, Jean-Baptiste is falsely accused by his "stepmother" of trying to take advantage of her. In disgust, his father banishes him forever from the family home. Jean-Baptiste's only solution is to live with Blanche, his mother's sister, in the mountains.
50 Nuances de Grecs
Act like Zeus (90 ep.)
event2018
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Myths are not dead: they are among us! With his mischievous eye and the art of diversion which is the trademark of "Flint and the city" and his cult comic strip "The Planet of the Wise", Jul revisits in 50 shades of Greeks the mythological heritage by humor and lag, in thirty episodes.
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