
Birthday:
04-30-1958
(66 years)
Birthplace:
Saint-Mandé, Seine [now Val-de-Marne], France
Biography
Charles Berling (born 30 April 1958) is a French actor, director and screenwriter.
Charles Berling, son of a navy doctor, is also the nephew of the literary critic Raymond Picard. His mother, Nadia, "only daughter of (French) settlers in Morocco" was born in Meknes (Morocco); she died in 2004.
When he was two years old he left Paris for Brest, then Toulon, then, at seven, Tahiti.
He studied acting at the Belgian school INSAS, in Brussels. He is the father of the actor Émile Berling.
Source: Article "Charles Berling" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Charles Berling, son of a navy doctor, is also the nephew of the literary critic Raymond Picard. His mother, Nadia, "only daughter of (French) settlers in Morocco" was born in Meknes (Morocco); she died in 2004.
When he was two years old he left Paris for Brest, then Toulon, then, at seven, Tahiti.
He studied acting at the Belgian school INSAS, in Brussels. He is the father of the actor Émile Berling.
Source: Article "Charles Berling" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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March of the Penguins
Act like Father Penguin (voice)
event2005 star_border 7.1
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Every year, thousands of Antarctica's emperor penguins make an astonishing journey to breed their young. They walk, marching day and night in single file 70 miles into the darkest, driest and coldest continent on Earth. This amazing, true-life tale is touched with humour and alive with thrills. Breathtaking photography captures the transcendent beauty and staggering drama of devoted parent penguins who, in the fierce polar winter, take turns guarding their egg and trekking to the ocean in search of food. Predators hunt them, storms lash them. But the safety of their adorable chicks makes it all worthwhile. So follow the leader... to adventure!!
Quiet Chaos
Act like Boesson
event2008 star_border 6.5
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Pietro is a successful businessman with a wife and a daughter. One day he helps his brother save two women from drowning at the beach. When he returns home he finds that his wife has died. Now Pietro has to take care of his daughter, Claudia. When he drives her to school soon after, he decides to wait for her all day in front of the school, and soon that's what he does every day.
Dry Cleaning
Act like Jean-Marie Kunstler
event1997 star_border 5.5
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A bored couple takes in a young man who turns their lives inside out.
Those Who Love Me Can Take the Train
Act like Jean-Marie
event1998 star_border 6.2
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A group of mourners travels by train to bury a recently deceased artist in Limoges. As they journey, secrets and desires unfold, with relationships shifting, past loves resurfacing, and personal connections revealed. At the funeral and afterward, tensions rise among the group, leading to further emotional complexities at the artist’s family home.
Demonlover
Act like Hervé Le Millinec
event2002 star_border 5.6
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A French corporation goes head-to-head with an American web media company for the rights to a 3-D manga pornography studio, resulting in a power struggle that culminates in violence and espionage.
Summer Hours
Act like Frédéric
event2008 star_border 6.5
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After the death of a septuagenarian woman, her three children deliberate over what to do with her estate.
The Man of My Life
Act like Hugo
event2006 star_border 5.8
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A man vacationing in the country with his wife and children finds ideas he has of himself unexpectedly challenged.
Secret Agents
Act like Eugène
event2004 star_border 5.3
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From his offices in Switzerland, Russian Igor Lipovsky is engaged in a vast and profitable gunrunning operation with Africa. The French government wants to hinder the activities of the arms dealer and sends a team to sink one of his ships heading for Angola with a load of illegal weaponry. Lisa, Brisseau, Loïc, Tony and Raymond are professionals: they carefully set up their cover, plan all their moves meticulously, and carry out orders without asking questions. Perhaps they should. The code-name of the mission is "Janus"; and just like with the ancient deity, there are two opposite faces for every aspect of the operation: the objective of the French government, the role of each team member, the presumed friend and the assumed foe...
Nelly and Monsieur Arnaud
Act like Jérôme
event1995 star_border 6.9
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Nelly leaves her lazy, unemployed husband to work for retired judge Mr Arnaud, forty years her senior, after he offers to clear her bills for her. While she types his memoirs the two develop a close friendship, but Arnaud becomes jealous when Nelly begins dating his good-looking young publisher.
Masquerade
Act like Jean-Charles
event2022 star_border 6.8
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Adrien, an attractive dancer whose career was shattered by a motorcycle accident, squanders his youth in idleness. His life changes when he meets Margot, who lives off scams and amorous manipulations.
Ridicule
Act like Le Marquis Grégoire Ponceludon de Malavoy
event1996 star_border 6.9
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To get royal backing on a needed drainage project, a poor French lord must learn to play the delicate games of wit at court at Versailles.
How I Killed My Father
Act like Jean-Luc
event2001 star_border 5.8
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When his long-time disappeared father is entering his life again, Jean-Luc, a successful doctor, has no option but to face his own life story. Will he ever be able to forget and forgive?
Cravate club
Act like Bernard
event2002 star_border 5.3
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Two architects and best friends have a difficult time sharing an office and their troubled private lives.
Sentimental Destinies
Act like Jean Barnery
event2000 star_border 5.6
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In late nineteenth century Charante, Protestant minister Jean Barnery causes local disquiet when he arranges a separation from his obsessive wife. He and his lover keep their love strong as the world changes around them.
Coming to Terms with the Dead
Act like François
event1994 star_border 6.3
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It’s summer, on the beach of this little town in Brittany, a man is building a sand castle. A few people watch him. We will be told the story of three of them: a boy, Jumbo, aged 9; François and his sister Zaza. All of them had to deal with the death of somebody they cherished.
Made in Paris
Act like Worms
event2006 star_border 5.6
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Diane lives with publisher Hermann but everything is spoiled when Worms, Hermann’s loyal author and friend, reveals in his new book the affair he once had with Diane, in a highly subjective manner. She soon discovers the contents of the work, which Hermann tries to hide from her, and takes on a lawyer to defend her privacy. But this is only the beginning of a mess that simply gets worse and worse, leading to an unexpected, brutal ending.
Children's Play
Act like Jacques Fauvel
event2001 star_border 4.9
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Marianne and Jacques are a young middle-class couple who live in a chic Parisian apartment with their two young children. One day, Marianne receives an unexpected visit from two strangers, Mr and Mrs Worms, who claim to have lived in the apartment when they were children and who ask if they can just take a look around their former home. Marianne agrees, but no sooner have the mysterious Worms left than things take an inexplicable turn for the worse...
Stardom
Act like Philippe Gascon
event2000 star_border 5.6
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A young girl is plucked from small-town obscurity and thrust into the spotlight of the glamorous world of super-models.
Savage Souls
Act like Reveillard
event2001 star_border 4.5
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At a wake one night in 1945, a group of aged women recall the life of one of their number. Sixty years before, Thérèse was barely 20 years old when she eloped with her boyfriend, Firmin, a blacksmith, to Châtillon, a town in Provence. Here, she makes the acquaintance of the wealthy Madame Numance, who is known for her good deeds. Realising that Thérèse is pregnant and unemployed, Madame Numance insists that she moves into a house on her estate. Whilst Firmin resents the arrangement, Thérèse soon finds that she can exploit the situation, using her benefactor's naivety and generosity for her own gain..
Forbidden House
Act like Benoît
event2011 star_border 4.8
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Benoît and Claire want to sell their country-side house where Claire´s brother commit suicide. Both go to the house to renovate it and sell it for a better price. Since the first night they stay there Claire is convinced that they are not alone...
August 15th
Act like Vincent
event2001 star_border 5
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Three men are abandonned by their wives for a few days in the summer holidays. They are alone with five kids to feed and a house to maintain. And they will learn what they did wrong with their wives.
Crime Scenes
Act like Georges Fabian
event2000 star_border 5.8
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The disappearance of a young woman puts two forensic police officers on the trail of a serial killer. Their fears are confirmed by the discovery of several corpses, what follows is a long hunt across Paris.
Father and Sons
Act like David
event2003 star_border 6.8
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Léo, un vieux père de famille ancien représentant de commerce, est prêt à tout pour retrouver l'affection de ses trois fils, David, Max et Simon. Il va même jusqu'à invoquer une maladie et une intervention chirurgicale pour les convaincre de l'accompagner dans un voyage au Canada, où il tentera de refaire l'unité du clan familial. Le quatuor de Français y fera la rencontre d'une guérisseuse et de sa fille.
Pierre and Marie
Act like Pierre Curie
event1997 star_border 6.6
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A humoristic view of the lives of Marie and Pierre Curie and their discoveries around radioactivity.
Comedy of Innocence
Act like Serge
event2000 star_border 6.1
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Today, Camille turns nine. He had sworn that on his 9th birthday he would show his parents the videos he was shooting on the side - the tail of a cat scampering away, a window, and a veiled woman's face - an intriguing picture... Later that day, Camille's mother, Ariane, meets up with her son in the park. The boy appears perturbed. He is leaning against a tree, eyes cast down. He says that now he wants to return to his "real home" and his "real mother."
Trader Games
Act like Georges
event2010 star_border 4.5
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A hot young Wall Street trader finds a formula based on climatology to play the market and win big... but at what cost?
I'm Staying
Act like Antoine
event2003 star_border 5.1
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A love triangle between a businessman, his wife, and a writer.
Beyond Suspicion
Act like Henri Schaeffer
event2010 star_border 4.3
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Henri est convaincu que Lise, sa nouvelle et jeune femme, l’aime sincèrement. Henri est aussi convaincu que Sam, le témoin de leur mariage, est le frère de Lise. La machination est parfaite. Enfin presque...
L'ennui
Act like Martin
event1998 star_border 5.5
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A philosophy teacher restless with the need to do something with his life meets a young woman suspected of driving an artist to his death. He finds the very simple Cecilia irritating but develops a sexual rapport with her. Obsessed with the need to own and tormented by her inability to respond to him, he becomes increasingly violent in a quest he can't name - a quest that slowly begins to undermine his certainties.
A Matter of Taste
Act like René Rousset
event2000 star_border 6.4
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Nicolas, a handsome, young waiter, is befriended by Frédéric Delamont, a wealthy middle-aged businessman. Delamont, a man of power, influence and strictly refined tastes, is immediately smitten by Nicolas' charm. Lonely and phobic, Delamont offers Nicolas a lucrative job as his personal food taster. In spite of their differences, a close friendship begins to emerge between the two men. However, their bond of trust and admiration soon spirals downward into a dangerous game of deceit and obsession for which neither is prepared.
Grabuge!
Act like Maurice
event2005 star_border 4.5
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Maurice works at the police service for foreigners. He is single, loves Spanish music and spends all his free time in a Hispanic cabaret.
Beirut Hotel
Act like Mathieu
event2011 star_border 5.2
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One evening, a married young singer Zoha meets the French lawyer Mathieu in a night club in Beirut. Mathieu will become suspected of spying, while Zoha is trying to flee from her husband. Despite these problems, the two will witness a love story for few days mixed with violence and fear.
The Art of Breaking Up
Act like Édouard de Bois d'Enghien
event2005 star_border 5.1
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Lucette and Edouard: Two lovers passionate about sex, money and life. He is a spoiled but penniless child who wants it all while she is a celebrated figure of la vie parisienne who knows what she wants and what she is worth. Edouard is marrying a young, pretty and rich heiress. He comes to confess this to Lucette and to make their parting official, but he doesn’t want to leave her. He struggles with all his might to hide his betrayal but her opportunities to learn of it are countless and unpredictable.
Hypnotized and Hysterical (Hairstylist Wanted)
Act like Arnaud
event2002 star_border 5.2
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Claude Duty's feature-length debut Filles Perdues, Cheveux Gras (Hypnotized and Hysterical, (Hairstylist Wanted)) is an offbeat comedy about three women. Elodi (Olivia Bonamy) is a struggling single mother. Natacha (Marina Fois) is an upbeat alcoholic hair stylist whose beloved pet cat has disappeared. Marianne (Amira Casar) is drawn to a roguish, sexually adventurous art dealer. Their lives intertwine in a variety of ways. Song and dance numbers, as well as animated sequences, punctuate the film.
The Sun Assassinated
Act like Jean Sénac
event2004 star_border 5.5
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The poet Jean Sénac, also a radio host, chose to stay in Algeria after his country's independence in 1962. Ten years later, a protester and libertarian, he was monitored by the regime's police. His poems attract a popular audience and his show is a real success with young people. Also, when Hamid and Belkacem, two students, learn that the play they wrote and presented at the first national Algerian theater festival is downgraded under the pretext that they performed it in French, their pain will be alleviated by the presence behind the scenes by Jean Sénac who congratulates them. The latter will become close friends of the poet and witness his fight for the freedom and culture of Algerian youth. A fight which would lead Sénac to martyrdom: one night in August 1973, he was assassinated in the cellar which served as his apartment. Hamid is accused of the murder.
Obsession
Act like Pierre Moulin
event1997 star_border 4
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Two men become entangled in a torrid love affair with the same woman. Pierre is Miriam's longtime lover. John is desperately searching for clues about his past when he and Miriam have a fateful encounter in a Berlin train station. The allure of forbidden love becomes irresistible, and an intense love triangle is ignited. Who will Miriam choose? Who will walk away? For two men who desperately adore the same woman and for the woman who loves them equally...there is no easy way out.
What's in a Name
Act like Pierre
event2012 star_border 7.3
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Vincent, a wealthy real estate agent, is invited to dinner by his sister Elizabeth and her husband Peter, both professors in Paris. Claude, a childhood friend and trombonist in a symphony orchestra, is also present. Vincent brings news from the prenatal examination of his and his wife Anna's unborn son. The name chosen by the soon-to-be parents strongly offends the others for many reasons. The dispute between the guests quickly escalates and before long the resurgence of old grudges and hidden secrets is unavoidable ...
Marie-Antoinette, la véritable histoire
Act like Récitant (voice)
event2006 star_border 6.8
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Marie Antoinette, Archduchess of Austria and a very young girl, marries King Louis-Auguste, Dauphine of France. This historical drama tells the tragic tale of a young woman who, in the beginning started out with task, that ended with great sadness and sorrow.
Fait d'hiver
Act like Louis Riquier
event1999 star_border 5
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This is a psychological drama about Louis Riquier, a veteran of the Algerian war and a divorced father whose wife has custody of their children and who barricades himself with the kids in his country house. The police and the press surround the house, but he does not want to surrender. Instead, he gets more and more violent. Manipulated by their father, the kids go along with the scenario, taking it as a game.
The Bridge
Act like Matthias
event1999 star_border 5.6
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Mina is a movie buff with a husband, Georges, who's out of work, and a 15-year-old son, Tommy. While Mina works part-time as a domestic for Claire Daboval, the family is terribly short on money, so when Georges is offered construction work on a massive bridge project, he immediately accepts, even though the job site is far away. One day, while taking in a matinee screening of West Side Story, Mina meets a man named Matthias, an engineer associated with the bridge project. It's love at first sight for the both of them, and while Mina has no desire to hurt Georges, who is a good and decent man, she has found another good and decent man whom she loves even more. Tommy, on the other hand, has to deal with this crisis in his parents' marriage while he's sorting out his own infatuation with Ms. Daboval's daughter, Lisbeth.
Bad Seeds
Act like Pierre Verdier
event2012 star_border 5.2
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Quiet 16-year-old Louis, the high school headmaster’s son, has never been in trouble. His best friend, 18-year-old Greg, however, is his polar opposite: provocative, angry, violent, he has been kicked out of school for physically threatening young English teacher Camille. When Greg asks Louis to help him take revenge on Camille, Louis accepts, fascinated...
Flo
Act like Jacques Arthaud
event2023 star_border 6.2
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World premiering on the Plage, it tells the story of « the little fiancée of the Atlantic », who’s career reached its peak with her victory of the Route du Rhum in 1990.
Dalida
Act like Lucien Morisse
event2005 star_border 7.2
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The life story of famous singer and actress of Egiptian and Italian ancestry Iolanda Gigliotti known by her stage name Dalida.
It Boy
Act like Luc Apfel
event2013 star_border 6.4
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38-year-old Alice has everything to become the next editor-in-chief of Rebelle magazine except for her uptight image. But when the young and charming Balthazar, barely 20, crosses Alice's path, she realizes that he holds the key to her promotion.
Love, etc.
Act like Pierre
event1996 star_border 5.6
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A triangle: love, obsession, and choice. Pierre, a ladies' man who has little cash and no fixed residence, describes his best friend Benoît as the world's oldest 32-year-old. The shy, well-employed Benoît's life changes when he answers the personal ad of Marie, a 25-year-old who restores paintings. He's attracted to her and she likes his steady calm and his honest attention. They're soon a couple, and they include Pierre in their dinners, outings, and trips. What will happen when Pierre realizes that he too is in love with Marie?
Pullman paradis
Act like Lucien Génin
event1995
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“Traveling is not just going places, but meeting people, remarks a character in Michèle Rosier's refreshing human comedy. 18 people board a tour bus to Mont-Saint-Michel, eager and jittery — cameras aimed, desires out of focus. The motley crew includes a maturing maid mad to marry, a discreet Irishman, a pompous bourgeois, and a mysterious lady in Renaissance attire who looks as though she's lost her castle.No matches made in heaven here; in fact, the characters seem bent on driving each other crazy before the tour's end.When the bus is attacked by highway thieves, and its occupants divested of jewels and money, the misadventure makes them accomplice ... a kind of spell is cast on these mere mortals, shaken from their moorings, who quit their banality and take off from the big bus into another space, outward bound.” — Joan Dupont
I Saw Ben Barka Get Killed
Act like Georges Figon
event2005 star_border 5.3
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January 1966. In a Paris apartment, police discovers the corpse of Georges Figon, the man who broke the scandal of the Ben Barka affair and undermined Gaullist power.
The French Trilogy
Act like Self
event2013
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The French Trilogy showcases a series of 62 photographs taken by Philippe Terrier-Hermann with 25 actors in 6 French regions echoing his previous project, The American Tetralogy. Questioning the relationship between cinema, landscapes and representations, this project features a song by Edward Barrow and was visible in public space in France during the summer of 2013, through a distribution system borrowing from advertising strategies.
Félix et moi, sur les traces du chanteur de Viens Poupoule !
event2024
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Félix Mayol was a very famous singer, one of the biggest stars of the early 20th century. Nowadays, his name sink into oblivion. In Toulon, a stadium and a mall are named after him, but nobody knows how much this city owes to this man.
The Clearstream Affair
Act like Judge Renaud Van Ruymbeke
event2015 star_border 6.3
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Journalist Denis Robert sparked a storm in the world of European finance by denouncing the murky operations of banking firm Clearstream. His quest to reveal the truth behind a secret world of shadowy multinational banking puts him in contact with an ever-expanding anti-corruption investigation carried out by Judge Renaud Van Ruymbeke. Their paths will lead them to the heart of a political/financial intrigue, which will rock the foundations of Europe and the French government itself.
Tu es mon fils
Act like Paul
event2015 star_border 6.2
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The discovery of a lifeless body triggers a mother’s murder investigation in this gripping French thriller. Directed by Didier Le Pecheur.
Elle
Act like Richard
event2016 star_border 6.7
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When Michèle, the CEO of a gaming software company, is attacked in her home by an unknown assailant, she refuses to let it alter her precisely ordered life. She manages crises involving family, all the while becoming engaged in a game of cat and mouse with her stalker.
The Woman I'm Watching
Act like Eddy
event1998
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The unpredictable destiny of a woman abandoned by the man she loves. Who could have predicted that the simple address of a private detective agency, found by chance in the yellow pages of the directory, would throw her into a strange adventure and lead her to another existence?
We Were Young
Act like Bilou
event2015 star_border 5.7
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Five long-term pals confront ageing and mortality as they enjoy their last weeks together before taking different paths.
Permis d'aimer
event2005
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A cafeteria worker of Arab origin falls in love with a French co-worker, much to everyone else's chagrin.
L'Inconnu de Strasbourg
Act like Jean-Paul
event1998 star_border 5
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Madeleine is with her lover, Jean-Paul, when her husband arrives home and catches the two together. Madeleine kills her husband and tells Jean-Paul to flee before the police arrive. After Jean-Paul drives away, he picks up a hitchhiker. When the car, stolen by the hitchhiker, explodes, police believe the dead hitchhiker is Jean-Paul. Madeleine takes up with Jean-Paul's brother, Bastien, while Jean-Paul, arriving in Strasbourg, is mistaken for the heir to a fortune. The detective on the case spends more time writing crime novels than investigating real-life crimes.
Nina's House
Act like Maurice Gutman
event2005 star_border 5.4
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Starting in 1944 in the wake of the Liberation and continuing into the '60s, 'houses of hope' were established to lend a semblance of continuity to youngsters orpahaned by the war. Nina's Home takes place between September 1944 and January 1946 in an orphanage housed in a chateau outside Paris. At the outset, the country residence is run by Nina who has a core population of French Jewish children whose parents are probably dead. Food is scarce. News of the Concentration Camps hasn't hit yet, but some months later, a contingent of youths arrive form the liberated camps. The children are a disparate, wild, damaged group and conflicts ensue. Nina's challenge is to help them make their first delicate moves toward the future and in the process restore all of them, including herself, to life.
Meurtres A Domicile
Act like Inspector Focard
event1982 star_border 5
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A murder is committed in the building where Aurélia Maudru, inspector of the judicial police in charge of the investigation, lives.
Sida, des années sombres aux premières victoires
event2023
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The poignant story of the fight against AIDS in France, from the discovery of the virus in 1983 by a team of researchers at the Pasteur Institute, led by Luc Montagnier and Françoise Barré-Sinoussi, to today's treatments, and the late or overly timid prevention campaigns by public authorities.
Heartstrings
Act like Le père de Marie
event2016 star_border 6.4
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Marie is a violent cello and very talented teenager in school. Victor is a friendly boy, dynamic, but who knows some academic difficulties. Ignoring that Mary is losing sight, Victor falls in love with her. And little by little, to his great surprise, Marie starts to help her ... When Marie reveals her secret, a pact is concluded between the two teenagers: Victor helps her to hide her condition so that she can pass The entrance examination to the conservatory. An unfailing friendship will emerge from this unlikely duo, ready to do anything to face the rest of the world.
The Exchange Student
Act like Frank
event2016 star_border 5.4
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Malo and Stéphane are two students who are kind of losers and have just started high school. Their plan to become popular: to host a German exchange student with a lot of style. Too bad for Malo, who gets stuck with a Goth who will make his life hell.
L'Âge des possibles
Act like Man at phone
event1996 star_border 6.6
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Ten young people ( boys and girls) at the age at which all is possible. They meet, they love, they choose. The film comes and goes between all those people, revealing their anguish, their dreams, depicting the portrait of a generation of the '90s which has both the fury and the fear of life.
Black Tide
Act like Marc
event2018 star_border 5.8
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When a teenager suddenly disappears without a trace, the case is assigned to an alcoholic police officer who maintains a complicated relationship with his own troubled teenage son, suspected of drug trafficking.
Reinventing Marvin
Act like Roland
event2017 star_border 6.7
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Telling the true story of Marvin Bijou, a young boy from a working-class family in a small village, who suffers constant bullying at school and home for being ‘different’ – too sensitive and too feminine. A chance encounter with a drama teacher opens the doors to a world that offers him the chance to escape his situation.
Marie Curie
Act like Pierre Curie
event2016 star_border 5.1
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The most turbulent five years in the life of a genius woman: Between 1905, where Marie Curie comes with Pierre Curie to Stockholm to be awarded the Nobel Prize for the discovery of the radioactivity, and 1911, where she receives her second Nobel Prize, after challenging France's male-dominated academic establishment both as a scientist and a woman.
White as Snow
Act like Bernard
event2019 star_border 5.1
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Claire is a beautiful young woman who works at her late father’s hotel, that is now managed by her evil stepmother Maud. Claire unwittingly sparks uncontrollable jealousy in Maud, whose young lover has fallen in love with Claire. Maud decides to get rid of Claire who finds shelter in a farm where she’s allowed to break free from her strict upbringing through encounters with seven “princes.”
The Rest of the World
Act like L'avocat
event2012 star_border 2
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A family drama. A deceased mother and a father with a new wife. Three sisters; the middle one has lost her lover by whom she is pregnant. During a family dinner an old secret emerges. A search for identity and primarily a story about human relationships.
Who You Think I Am
Act like Gilles
event2019 star_border 6.5
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Claire, a 50-year-old divorced teacher, creates a fake Facebook profile of a 24-year-old woman to catfish Alex, the roommate of her former lover, Ludo.
A Clever Crook
Act like Commissioner Marc Beffrois
event2019 star_border 4.9
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Commissioner Beffrois waits for retirement with mixed enthusiasm when a theft of paintings catches his attention.
Escape from Raqqa
Act like Patrice
event2019 star_border 6
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Paris, spring 2015. Faustine travels to Syria with her little son to join ISIS; but, once in Raqqa, she soon realizes the hell she is gotten herself into. Her husband Sylvain quickly understands that the French government is powerless to help him, so he plans with some friends a high-risk extraction operation to get his family back.
Mutual Consent
Act like Laurent
event1994 star_border 2
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There is a lot of tension and resentment in Romain's and Jeanne's marriage, but their divorce is amicable. They seem to agree on how to raise their daughter, Madeleine - she will live with her mother and spend every other week-end with her father. But Romain is very controlling and manipulative and is poisoning the arrangement. At first, Jeanne seems to cope with being a single parent, but when she has to put up with Romain's tactics she starts to fall apart.
Poseur
Act like Jean
event2019 star_border 2
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Jean poses naked for the first time. The poses are more and more difficult to hold, Jean faints...
Three Days and a Life
Act like Michel Desmedt
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.
More Than Honey
Act like Narrator (french voice)
event2012 star_border 7.2
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With dazzling nature photography, Academy Award®–nominated director Markus Imhoof (The Boat Is Full) takes a global examination of endangered honeybees — spanning California, Switzerland, China and Australia — more ambitious than any previous work on the topic.
Orient-Express: A Legendary Journey
Act like Narrator (voice)
event2019 star_border 6.9
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A symbol of luxury and adventure, the Orient Express opened a new path between the West and the East. Mata Hari, Josephine Baker and Agatha Christie, who dedicated a novel to it, contributed to its legend. Delve into the secrets of a legendary train.
Salt on Our Skin
Act like Roger
event1992 star_border 4.8
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A Scottish woman who attends school in Paris comes home for the summer and helps take in the straw, where she meets an attractive and simple man. They begin a torrid affair despite the differences in their lifestyles. He asks her to marry him but she refuses, and they continue their separate lives but also continue their affair through the years, loving each other despite their differences.
A Species Odyssey
Act like Narrator (voice)
event2003 star_border 7.5
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"A Species Odyssey" portrays the origins of Mankind from the moment the first primate stood up on their hind legs and set off to conquer the African Savanna, to modern Man, setting off to conquer space. 7 million years of triumph fraught with difficulties and extraordinary events that make Man what he is today.
Making of 'Demonlover'
Act like Self
event2003
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Twenty years after David Cronenberg prophesied the dark side of the Internet age in Videodrome, acclaimed French filmmaker Olivier Assayas updated it for the New Millennium in his startlingly prescient Demonlover, a chilling exploration of the nexus between sex and violence available at the click of a button.
Claude Sautet: A Subtle Director
Act like Self - Narrator (voice)
event2021 star_border 8
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Claude Sautet (1924-2000), the filmmaker of human emotions, portrayed everyday life in France in the 1970s and 1980s in a unique way, thanks to the creation of very real characters and plausible situations, thus becoming one of the most beloved French directors of his time.
The Damned of the Comnune
Act like Gustave Courbet (voice)
event2021 star_border 7
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Exclusively created with period engravings, this animated feature explores the Franco-Prussian War of 1870 and the ensuing Paris Commune revolution in 1871.
Un dimanche à Paris
Act like Romaric
event1994
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Alain finds Marie, whom he still loves, but he is embarrassed by the presence, to say the least, of Nina, who keeps asking him for services. Marie gradually becomes aware of the strong bond that unites Alain and Nina, who has never counted in his eyes.
L'Abolition
Act like Robert Badinter
event2009 star_border 5.7
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The story of Robert Badinter who was the major architect of the abolition of the death penalty in France .
A Day in the Life of French Cinema
Act like Self
event2002
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Documentary showing one day of work of over 90 actors and filmmakers from French cinema on the same day. On 27 March 2002, 27 teams filmed actors, directors, producers and technicians at work, from Hawaii to Paris and from New York to Lisbon.
Trepalium
Act like Bartholomé (6 ep.)
event2016 star_border 6
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The economic situation is a nightmare: only 20% of the population is employed. The Actives live inside the city. On the fringes, in the Zone, live the Jobless. Separating them is a wall.
The Island of Thirty Coffins
Act like Raphaël Vorski (6 ep.)
event2022 star_border 7.3
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Christine lost her son at birth 15 years ago. Or so she believes, until she receives a video suggesting he might not be dead. That sends her hurrying back to the island of her childhood in Brittany to discover the truth in an investigation confronting multiple mysteries.
The Frozen Dead
Act like Capitaine Martin Servaz (6 ep.)
event2017 star_border 6.4
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A horrific discovery in a small town nestled high in the French Pyrenees begins to unravel a dark mystery that has been hidden for years. On an unforgiving winter morning, a group of workers discover the headless body of a horse, hanging suspended from the edge of a frozen cliff. Commandant Martin Servaz starts investigating and soon discovers a dark story of madness and revenge.
Capitaine Marleau
Act like Carlos Dos Santos (1 ep.)
event2015 star_border 5.8
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Beneath her eccentric appearance, Captain Marleau is a formidable detective. Her Sherlock Holmes deerstalker cap, her character, her unusual appearance, her humor, her unpredictable behavior--Captain Marleau is not your average gendarme. She never rushes an investigation; she becomes the investigation and relentlessly pursues the suspects.
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