
Birthday:
05-27-1961
(63 years)
Birthplace:
Champigny-sur-Marne, Val-de-Marne, France
Biography
Marie Bunel (born 1961) is a French film and stage actress.
Bunel was born on 27 May 1961 in Saint-Maur-des-Fossés, Val-de-Marne, France. She attended the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute in West Hollywood, California and took classes from Blanche Salant at the American Center of Paris.
She is married to actor Vincent Winterhalter, whose late father was actor Vania Vilers (1938-2009).
Source: Article "Marie Bunel" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Bunel was born on 27 May 1961 in Saint-Maur-des-Fossés, Val-de-Marne, France. She attended the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute in West Hollywood, California and took classes from Blanche Salant at the American Center of Paris.
She is married to actor Vincent Winterhalter, whose late father was actor Vania Vilers (1938-2009).
Source: Article "Marie Bunel" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Au petit Marguery
Act like Anne-Françoise
event1995 star_border 6.2
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Hippolyte, the chef at the small Paris restaurant of the title, is losing his sense of smell - and without that, you can’t cook. Not in France. The restaurant has to close. Guests and customers of the ailing master chef gather for one last fabulous meal. Between courses, personal conflicts are explored and flashbacks flesh out incidents from the lives of the restaurant owners.
The French Revolution: Years of Rage
Act like Lucile Desmoulins
event1989 star_border 7.5
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Second part of the revolutionary historical drama, which takes up the events that occurred from August 10, 1792 until the end of the reign of terror with the execution of Robespierre.
Dolça
Act like La mère
event2014 star_border 1
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In a small Southern town in France, Dolça, a nineteen years old girl, builds a close relationship with Sam, the little boy she babysits. But her relation with Sam is turning upside-down when she meets his father: a newly divorced handsome man.
The Blood of Others
Act like Yvonne
event1984 star_border 5
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In the German-occupied Paris, Helene is torn between the love for her boyfriend Jean, working for the resistance and the German administrator Bergmann, who will do anything to gain her affection.
The Chorus
Act like Violette Morhange
event2004 star_border 7.7
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In 1940s France, a new teacher at a school for disruptive boys gives hope and inspiration.
A Girl Cut in Two
Act like Marie Deneige
event2007 star_border 6
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A TV weather girl is torn between an older man, a famous married author whom she loves but who won't leave his wife, and a semi-deranged young heir to an industrial fortune who loves her.
Saint-Jacques... La Mecque
Act like Mathilde
event2005 star_border 6.3
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Three siblings who detest each other and hiking must complete together a pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela in order to be eligible to inherit their mother's wealth.
Little Girl Blue
Act like Kathleen Evin
event2023 star_border 6.2
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In 2016, French writer and photographer Carole Achache took her own life. After Carole's death, her daughter Mona Achache, a film director, discovers thousands of photos, letters and recordings that Carole left behind, but these buried secrets make her disappearance even more of an enigma. Through the power of filmmaking and the beauty of incarnation with the help of actress Marion Cotillard, the director brings her mother back to life to retrace her journey and find out who she really was.
Close to Leo
Act like Mother
event2002 star_border 6.3
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When 21 year-old Leo, the oldest of four brothers, announces to his rural French family that he's HIV positive, his family quickly rallies around him. Leo travels to Paris with his youngst brother Marcel for treatment. When Leo tries to push his brother away to protect him, the love and loyalty of the two brothers is tested.
The White Line
Act like Sophie
event2010
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Jean, a respected theater actor, leads a dissolute life. Separated from the mother of his child, he devotes most of his time to work, alcohol, and women. Sylvain in full adolescence, feels the need to get closer to his father. On a whim, both of them leave to join an old friend of Jean, Bob the American, who lives on an isolated ranch. From then on, they will try to apprehend each other, with clumsiness, hesitation and sometimes even violence.
Bellamy
Act like Françoise Bellamy
event2009 star_border 5.8
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A well known Parisian inspector becomes involved in an investigation while on holiday.
Seventeen Times Cécile Cassard
Act like Teacher
event2002 star_border 5.2
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A portrait of a woman, composed of 17 moments from her life.
La femme à abattre
Act like Elisabeth
event1993
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A policeman discovers during a case that he is investigating himself. His wife has witnessed a terrorist attack committed by her lover.
The Discreet
Act like Solange
event1990 star_border 6.5
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There is an author who has been dumped by his girlfriend and has no inspiration for a next novel. In an attempt to find a solution to both crises, he, along with his publisher friend, decides to seduce a young woman with the singular purpose of keeping a diary of the seduction and then dump her before publishing the book about it. Unfortunately he falls in love with her.
L'Hôtel de la plage
Act like Claudie
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.
War of the Buttons
Act like Mère Lebrac
event2011 star_border 6
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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.
Délit d'innocence
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A father and son in constant conflict. The father, a fisherman boss, has rejected his fatherly love for his young sailor. He can't understand why his son wants to be an actor and still lives at home. The two men, though united by blood, no longer understand each other and will continue to tear each other apart when the truth comes out.
Le Gaffeur
Act like Madeleine
event1985 star_border 6.7
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A good country priest discovers that he is a father and must assume his role, a task all the more delicate since his son is a thug.
Les Miserables
Act like Une jeune femme juive
event1995 star_border 6.7
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In France during World War II, a poor and illiterate man, Henri Fortin, is introduced to Victor Hugo's classic novel Les Misérables and begins to see parallels between the book and his own life.
Family Pack
Act like Sacha Kessler
event2001 star_border 4.6
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A young woman tries to ease herself out of the closet without terrifying her parents in the process in this comedy-drama. The year is 1969, and Sacha (Marie Bunel) is a young Belgian woman living in Canada. Sacha's family sent her to Canada to attend medical school, but she hasn't had the heart to tell them that she's dropped out of college to devote herself to her new interest in photography. Sacha also hasn't told her parents that she's a lesbian -- and that she has a new girlfriend, Odile (Macha Grenon). Odile is tired of being kept a secret, and insists that Sacha tell her parents the truth before American astronauts land on the moon in a few months -- or else. Sacha flies home to Belgium for a visit, planning to come clean to her folks, but she discovers they've arranged a huge welcome home party for the entire neighborhood. With everyone so excited that the soon-to-be-doctor is paying them a visit, Sacha wonders when the time will be right to give her family the news.
Christmas Carole
Act like Laura, la voisine
event2024 star_border 5.9
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It’s Christmas! Small-town mayoress Carole helps the inhabitants of her municipality with the festivities while her devoted husband Alain organises the Christ- mas Eve celebrations at home.
The kids arrive, and soon all hopes of a peaceful Christmas melt away as the family traditions are challenged. Wine is okay but only if it’s natural, Christmas decorations must remain unlit and no more foie gras for Alain... On earth as well as around the table, climate is warming up while everybody’s waiting for the big news that the eldest daughter is supposed to announce.
Rêves d'automne
Act like Gry
event2012
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A man and a woman who loved each other find themselves in a cemetery. He is here to attend the funeral of his grandmother, she let herself be lured by this place without really knowing why. The man's parents, who have come to pour out their reproaches, gravitate around the lovers who desire each other and inevitably get closer. But what did they really experience? And do they still have something to live for?
Rêve d'automne
Act like Gry
event2010
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A man and a woman who loved each other find themselves in a cemetery. He is here to attend the funeral of his grandmother, she let herself be lured by this place without really knowing why. The man's parents, who have come to pour out their reproaches, gravitate around the lovers who desire each other and inevitably get closer. But what did they really experience? And do they still have something to live for?
Arsène Lupin
Act like Henriette Lupin
event2004 star_border 5.3
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As the daring thief Arsène Lupin ransacks the homes of wealthy Parisians, the police, with a secret weapon in their arsenal, attempt to ferret him out.
The Party 2
Act like Owner of “Studio 27” lent for Mathieu’s Party
event1982 star_border 6.5
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A young French teenage girl after moving to a new city falls in love with a boy and is thinking of having sex with him because her girlfriends have already done it.
Sweet Sixty
Act like Sylvie
event2023 star_border 5
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At sixty years old, two friends in financial difficulties are going to take advantage of their image in the fashion and advertising world. One is still beautiful, the other never was. But beyond the game of appearances, what does it really mean to be of retirement age today?
Jappeloup
Act like Arlette Durand, mother of Pierre
event2013 star_border 7.1
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A true sports story that utterly defies the odds, Duguay’s film captures the wild ups and downs of the Olympics-bound career of legendary equine star Jappeloup and his troubled rider, locked in a tense relationship with his horseman father and forever uncertain of his own skills as an equestrian
An Accidental Soldier
Act like Colombe
event2013 star_border 5.9
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An unexpected love story set in WW1 France between a young Australian baker who has deserted the front line, and a grieving French woman, who puts her own life at risk by sheltering him from the authorities.
Our Futures
Act like Principal of the school / Ruben's grandmother
event2023
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A face-to-face meeting behind closed doors on the theme of Amazon deforestation brings together two heads of state. At the same time, a school director accompanies a student particularly concerned by the climate emergency to an unknown destination.
Mollusk
event2023 star_border 5
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Erné Couteau, a lazy and naive young man, overcomes his shyness to attend a strange job interview that will change his life forever.
Le Procès de Bobigny
Act like Marguerite Chauvelier
event2006 star_border 5.8
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In 1972 16-year-old Marie-Claire became pregnant after a rape. With help from her mother Michelle and three other women, she underwent a clandestine abortion. Under a 1920 law, the five women were arrested and charged. Supported by a procession of well-known French (eg Simone de Beauvoir), the five were released and the law was adapted.
The French Minister
Act like Martine
event2013 star_border 6.1
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Alexandre Taillard de Vorms is a force to be reckoned with. With his silver mane and tanned, athletic body, he stalks the world stage as Minister of Foreign Affairs for France, waging his own war backed up by the holy trinity of diplomatic concepts: legitimacy, lucidity, and efficacy. Enter Arthur Vlaminck. Hired to write the minister's speeches, Arthur must contend with the sensibilities of his boss and the dirty dealings within the Quai d'Orsay, the ministry's home.
Gito the Ungrateful
Act like Christine
event1992 star_border 5
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Back home in Bujumbura with a Parisian diploma in his pocket and expecting to walk into a civil service job, Gito finds himself both unemployed and caught between two women: his current French girlfriend Christine and his local old flame Flora.
Story of Women
Act like Ginette
event1988 star_border 7.3
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France, World War II. In order to somehow make ends meet, the mother of two children, Marie Latour, does underground abortions and rents a room to a familiar prostitute. She doesn't pay any attention to her husband, who returned from the war because of his injury and lives her own life. Abortions gradually begin to bring a good income, and boredom can be easily dispelled by starting a young lover.
Des gens si bien élevés
Act like Nathalie
event1997
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A teenage girl's running away from home causes a lot of soul-searching in a family dominated by an authoritarian grandmother.
Daaaaaalí!
Act like Mrs. Abravanel
event2024 star_border 6.2
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A young French journalist repeatedly meets iconic surrealist artist Salvador Dalí for a documentary project that never came to be.
The Small Victories
Act like Claudine Le Guennic, mother of Alice and Pauline
event2023 star_border 6.8
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Between her roles as mayor and teacher in the small village of Kerguen, Alice's days are very full. When an unexpected new student, 60-year-old Emile, finally decides to learn to read and write, her daily life threatens to become unmanageable. Especially since Alice will also have to save her village and her school...
Silence of the Sea
Act like Marie
event2004 star_border 7.4
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In a small town in the West of France, during the German Occupation, a room is requisitioned by a Wehrmacht captain, Werner von Ebrennac. The house where he now stays is inhabited by young Jeanne, who makes a living by giving piano lessons, and by her grandfather. Quite upset, the two "hosts" decide to resist the occupier by never speaking a word to him. Now Werner is a lover of France and its culture, and he tries to persuade them that a rapprochement between Germany and France would be beneficial for the two nations. Quite unexpectedly Jeanne, little by little, falls in love with Werner. At the same time, the Francophile officer loses his illusions, realizing at last that what Nazi Germany actually wants is to thrall France and to stifle its culture...
Smoking Causes Coughing
Act like La caissière
event2022 star_border 6.1
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After a devastating battle against a diabolical turtle, a team of five avengers — known as the "Tobacco Force" — is sent on a mandatory retreat to strengthen their decaying group cohesion. Their sojourn goes wonderfully well until Lézardin, Emperor of Evil, decides to annihilate planet Earth.
Les filles du régiment
Act like Christine Morin, dite Jolies Meules
event1978
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A colonel aims to make her regiment compete with that of the men, which is not to the taste of the general, who also turns out to be her lover.
Couples et amants
Act like Isabelle
event1993 star_border 1
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Seemingly, Paul (Jacques Bonaffee) and Isabelle (Marie Brunel) have a wonderful, harmonious marriage. Yet Isabelle is not averse to having a little side action with another man in the afternoon, and Paul is really getting into his romance with one of his ophthalmic patients, a young woman who pursues him more than he pursued her. Even those little affairs might not indicate that there is much wrong with the marriage, but when Paul find's out about Isabelle's little affair, he behaves like a thug rather than the sensitive, easygoing man he has appeared to be. By contrast, the constant bickering of a couple they both know seems to indicate real intimacy between them, despite the fact that they are on the verge of divorce.
L'attaque des déchets
Act like Nicole
event2022
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Roxanne and Philippe are so obsessed with their relationship that they often forget about the world around them. In the midst of an argument, they decide to separate when a strange phenomenon occurs: garbage from all over the world comes to life and attacks people. Arnold, their lifelong friend, is convinced that it's all their fault. They must reconcile and everything will return to normal. Roxanne and Philippe will try anything to resolve their quarrels, save their relationship and save the world. Easier said than done, when a soda can becomes a relentless killer.
La fête des mères
event1998
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A young woman invites her mum to spend Mother’s Day week-end at a luxurious spa to tell her that she loves another woman.
Accidental Family
Act like Clara
event2017 star_border 5.7
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Loïc Le Tallec never really took care of his son. When the latter disappears in a road accident, Loïc is devastated. He has only one idea in mind: to find the one who lives now with the heart of his son. He falls on Hugo, a young man that this brand new heart makes totally unreasonable and uncontrollable. Their meeting promises to be explosive.
Links of Life
Act like Marion
event2020
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Marion is a charismatic fifty-year-old French woman who was born with an attention disorder. Rob is a desperate and mysterious thirty-year-old American man. In the wilderness of Canyonlands, Utah, they meet.
Lou Didn’t Say No
Act like Lou
event1994 star_border 7.3
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Moments and aspects of the life of a contemporary married couple undergoing a metamorphosis.
The Odd Girl
Act like La mère de Céline
event2017 star_border 5.7
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Following a long prison term, 30 year-old Céline must find a place in society. Hiding her past, she introduces herself with a new identity to get work for a trial period in a hotel. Céline finds herself endlessly walking a tightrope between truth and fiction. When she meets Idir, despite the threat of being unmasked, Céline falls in love and finds herself a prisoner to her own lies. But how can one live without taking risks?
Une soirée perdue
Act like Dominique
event1985
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"Nancy, Hotel de Guise, 25 November 1983"
Deerskin
Act like Bar Patron
event2019 star_border 6.5
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A man's obsession with owning the designer deerskin jacket of his dreams leads him to turn his back on his humdrum life in the suburbs, blow his life savings, and even turn him to crime.
A Change of Heart
Act like Nathalie Brac
event2015 star_border 6.2
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Jean-Pierre is a brilliant surgeon. The problems of his nearest and dearest don't interest him. But when he discovers that he too has a serious heart disease which needs operating on, Jean-Pierre finds out what it is to be a patient.
Someone, Somewhere
Act like Mère de Rémy
event2019 star_border 6.4
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Rémy and Mélanie live next door to each other in Paris but have never met. The two thirty-year-old Parisians search for connections online, but never have much success. Falling deeper into loneliness and depression, both decide to start attending regular therapy. With the help of their therapists, they uncover the real roots of their issues, and find that the connection they were both searching for is much closer than they thought.
Murder in Le Havre
Act like Muriel Rohan
event2018 star_border 6.4
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A mummified corpse has been found by workers who were knocking down a wall. Ariane Sallès and Gaspard Lesage are in charge of the investigation.
3 Friends
Act like Florence Capla
event2007 star_border 5.1
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Three childhood friends support each other through life's ups and downs in this comedy/drama. Each goes through a difficult time in their life, and is "helped" by the others - always well-intentioned, but not always with the intended results! Baptiste's (Kad Merad) wife leaves him and he becomes depressed then obsessive-compulsive. César (Pascal Elbé) has a secret affair with his boss's daughter - he's nervous about seeing her in case dad finds out, but if he stops seeing her she threatens to tell all anyway - either way his job is on the line. Claire (Mathilde Seigner), adopted as a baby, struggles to decide whether to try and find her birth-mother.The links between the three play a crucial part in each of their lives - a deep and supportive bond, but one which risks preventing them ever forming a relationship with someone else.
Fever
Act like Catherine
event2015 star_border 4.7
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Two Parisian high school students murder a woman they chose as a victim from a chance encounter.
Harbor
Act like Adèle
event2018 star_border 8.5
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A tense night of raised pulses on a ferry to England: Adèle, an English teacher, is hiding a 15 year old migrant among her students on board.
Bad Spelling
Act like College secretary
event2004 star_border 5.9
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At a French boarding school for troubled youth in the early 1970's, the Headmaster and his wife decide that their son Daniel, who is fifteen years old but looks younger, should finally go live in the dorm with all the other students, as they do not want it to seem Daniel is receiving any special treatment. Daniel is now faced with the challenge of earning the trust and respect of the other students, who all come from troubled backgrounds.
Owning it
Act like Madame D'Agostino
event2021 star_border 6.4
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Sanou, a bright 15-year-old, enrolls in the famous Henri IV school in Paris. In this prestigious institution, the young girl from the Saint-Denis outer suburbs finds herself dropped into a world a million miles from everything she knows.
Le Choix de Macha
Act like Macha
event2004 star_border 5.5
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An emancipated young woman has a string of one-night stands, out of fear of commitment. Until the day she meets Eduardo... She confides her feelings to her grandmother in the greatest secrecy, but, by mistake, the latter reveals the love relationship that her granddaughter has with her new lover. The situation suddenly becomes complicated.
Crédit bonheur
Act like Marie-Jo
event1996
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Settled in Brittany with their four children in an old semi-decayed house, a couple of slightly idealistic Parisians is sucked into a spiral of credits.
The Third War
Act like Sylvie
event2021 star_border 5.9
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After completing his military training, young Léo, a taciturn soldier with family problems and secret addictions, is assigned to one of the units that patrol the streets of Paris in search of possible terrorist threats as part of Operation Sentinelle.
The French Revolution: Years of Hope
Act like Lucile Desmoulins
event1989 star_border 7.3
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First part that includes the beginnings of the French Revolution. The film begins by recounting the events that led to the convocation of the States General in 1789 and ends with the assault on the Tuileries Palace, which occurred on August 10, 1792.
An interview
(10 ep.)
event2018 star_border 4.7
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A director of human resources conducts job interviews. As the episodes unfold, the candidates introduce themselves. Annoying, too sure of themselves or frankly confusing, they trigger internal thoughts that distract him and disrupt his exchanges with the candidates.
The Little Murders of Agatha Christie
Act like Louise (juive), la gouvernante (18 ep.)
event2009 star_border 7.4
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French adaptations of the stories by Agatha Christie.
Guilty as Charged
Act like Kreusky (8 ep.)
event2012 star_border 8
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A detective series centered around a police station in a working-class suburb of a provincial French city (the St. Herblain area of Nantes, to be exact), where detached houses with kitchen gardens rub shoulders with tower blocks. There's no mafia or organized crime, just petty lawbreaking, but it keeps our cops busy. Fights that get out of hand, conjugal disputes, quarrels between neighbors, family tiffs, pick-pocketing, pilfering from building sites, minor trafficking and illegal laborers. And plenty of bodily harm, from the trivial to the extremely grievous and, at times, even fatal. Against this backdrop of everyday lawlessness, the series paints a picture of people's lives when they slip out of control, veering into the comic, the tragic or the absurd.
Profiling Paris
Act like Marthe Fallet (1 ep.)
event2009 star_border 6.9
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Chloé Saint-Laurent is a profiler and works with a police team to solve murders in Paris. She's very sweet, she wears very colored clothes and a huge yellow bag. She looks like a little girl who need a doll, but she's very smart and a very good profiler. Step by step, she fit in the team and her colleagues, very reserved at first, became her best friends.
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