Birthday:
11-14-1958
(66 years)
Birthplace:
Talence, Gironde, France
Biography
Olivier Marchal (b. November 14, 1958 in Talence, France) is a French actor, director, screenwriter, and a former policeman. In 2005, he was nominated for three César Awards (best director, best film, and best writing), for his film 36 Quai des Orfèvres.
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Tell No One
Act like Bernard Valenti
event2006 star_border 7.2
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A man receives a mysterious e-mail appearing to be from his wife, who was murdered years earlier. As he frantically tries to find out whether she's alive, he finds himself being implicated in her death.
36th Precinct
Act like Christo
event2004 star_border 6.9
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The film takes place in Paris, where two cops are competing for the vacant seat of chief of police while in the middle of a search for a gang of violent thieves. The movie is directed by Olivier Marchal, a former police officer who spent 12 years with the French police before creating this story, which is taken in part from real facts that happened during the 1980s in France.
Diamond 13
Act like Franck
event2009 star_border 5.4
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A cop goes up against his lifelong friend, who has become one of the city's biggest drug traffickers.
Crime Insiders
Act like Jean-Guy
event2007 star_border 5.8
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A Parisian criminal gang fall apart after challenges to the gang's leader lessen his influence.
Anything for Her
Act like Henri Pasquet
event2008 star_border 6.9
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Lisa and Julien are married and lead a happy uneventful life with their son Oscar. But their life radically changes one morning, when the police comes to arrest Lisa on murder charges. She's sentenced to 20 years of prison. Convinced of his wife's innocence, Julien decides to act. How far will he be willing to go for her?
Blame It on Mum
Act like Jacques de Parentis
event2009 star_border 5.8
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An upper-class family's dysfunctional harmony collapses when their daughter begins an affair with a cynical cop who unearths a long-buried secret.
Jo's Boy
Act like Robert Cahuzac, aka 'le Chinois'
event2010 star_border 6
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Grandson of a legendary rugby player, son of a legendary rugby player, and he himself a legendary rugby player, Jo Canavero raises his only son, Tom, in a small village in the Tarn region. To the great displeasure of Jo, thirteen-year-old Tom is as good at math as he is useless on the rugby field. For a Canavero, the legend can't stop there, even if it means setting up a rugby team specifically for Tom, despite the wishes of the whole village and of Tom himself.
Scorpion
Act like De Boers
event2007 star_border 5.4
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Featuring a mix of Thai Boxing and Ultimate Fighting, SCORPION has been dubbed The French Fight Club. It stars Jerome Le Banner, who is also known as Hyper Battle Cyborg and The Bulldog of Paris, a true kickboxer, famous for his aggressive style - 43 of his 57 wins have come by knockout.
Low Profile
Act like Inspecteur Petrini
event1993 star_border 5.1
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A disillusioned police detective, used as a scapegoat by his corrupted superior, fights back by becoming a competent criminal.
Mort sur la piste
Act like Antoine Palestro
event2023 star_border 5.7
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As the first test drives begin for the 24 Hours of Le Mans, the body of a pilot is discovered on the track. It was carefully dragged there. Captain Sabrina Nedjard is in charge of the investigation, followed by an American observer from LAPD as part of an international exchange. Their inquiries will lead them to the paddocks and the workshops of a well-known amateur racing team where high stakes disrupt the relationships between an authoritarian father and his children.
Sunny Spells
Act like Henri
event2008 star_border 5.5
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This is not a chorus film. Well maybe just a little…
Avignon Festival - Summer. First, there’s Maud and Alex, who have just broken up but need to pretend to be two love birds on stage. Then there’s the playwright of their play, Richard, who could start to fall in love with Léna, but is still grieving his lost wife. Léna is also grieving her ex but can’t remember why she dumped him. So she sings her blues, on stage, with Louise, who might have a little crush on her sound engineer. Then there’s the famous dancer Kate who sleeps with her assistant Marko, who’s always prefered men. Oh, did we tell you that Kate the dancer and Maud the actress are friends and would love to invite everyone to a party?
Paris Countdown
Act like Milan
event2013 star_border 5.1
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Unable to repay their debts, Milan and Victor, best friends and co-owners of a Paris nightclub, are lured into a drug deal that goes bad. Tortured by police, they negotiate their freedom against an overwhelming testimony that condemns their psychotic liaison to prison. Six years later, the men's nightmare begins again when the pyschopath is granted his freedom. Now, not having talked for years, the old friends are united again in order to survive.
La Puce
Act like Marc
event1999 star_border 5.4
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Marion is a 14-year-old girl who is on holiday with her family by the sea in Normandy. But she soon comes into conflict with her mother and siblings. There she also meets a man named Marc, to whom she feels attracted, who sees her and desires her. Back in Paris, she visits him again. For the first time in her life, she will make love to him.
Un p’tit gars de Ménilmontant
Act like Jo
event2013 star_border 5.5
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A man leaves prison after a 15-year sentence and returns to his home district to find that it has changed completely, almost beyond recognition. He will find it hard to adjust to a world that is governed by a totally different set of rules...
A Police Romance
Act like Viard
event2008 star_border 3
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In a small police station, Lieutenant Emilie Carange finds herself sexually attracted to Jamil Messaouden, a young rookie officer. When an old Algerian woman reports that she's seen drug dealers operating in the neighborhood, they find themselves in over their heads in an investigation. Night after night, Emilie's desire grows. The drug investigation gets out of hand and so does Emilie...
Serial Driver
Act like Jean-Claude Lallouette
event2023 star_border 6
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Pauline has her own way of doing road safety: as a trainer in a point recovery center during the day, she becomes a serial killer of drivers at night.
Meurtres à Blois
Act like Denis Frécant
event2022 star_border 5.3
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During a performance at the Château de Blois, an industrialist is murdered as he plays the role of Henri III. Arthur, the young actor playing the Duke of Guise, becomes prime suspect. Police Captain Alice Deschamps heads the investigation with her ex and Arthur's father, Detective Inspector Denis Frécant.
Darling Trap
Act like Gabriel
event2014 star_border 4.8
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Clémence is pathologically jealous. Gabriel has asked her to marry him. To test whether he is faithful, unbeknownst to him she arranges that he crosses paths with beautiful Olivia...
A Chance To Win
Act like Marco Bianchoni
event2023 star_border 6.3
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Two villages in the south of France have always been bitter rivals, but when a group of asylum seekers arrive in the community, the life of both villages is shaken up and age-old disagreements escalate. Their antagonism reaches its peak with the annual rugby derby played between the two village teams, but this time, with the new outsiders joining as unexpected recruits, the result of the 100th match will be more unpredictable than ever.
Fastlife
Act like Jeno
event2014 star_border 4.8
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Fastlife: always go further, faster, to shine in the eyes of others: this is the motto of Franklin. Franklin is a megalomaniac obsessed by the desire to shine at any price. He will have to choose between becoming a man or continue to live the Fastlife...
Almost Legal
Act like Didier
event2024 star_border 5.2
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Just out of their studies, Félix and Vincent are two young broken hands from the Atlantic coast who are struggling to find their place in the world of work... and in life in general. The two friends decide to clandestinely transform a small neighborhood grocery store into a nighttime business during the holidays. Helped by a team of specialists recruited for the occasion, they will keep the store running, until the real owner of the convenience store and the police start to smell something wrong...
La tresse d'Aminata
Act like Jean-Marc
event2004
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A child from Senegal is adopted by a French family in the Bretagne soon learns that she is not the only child.
Qui veut la peau d'Olivier Marchal ?
Act like Director
event2005
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A documentary that follows the pre-production and shooting of Olivier Marchal's film: "36, Quai des Orfèvres".
L'enfant d'une autre
Act like Jérôme
event2006
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A successful businesswoman thinks she has found her daughter, whom she lost when she was six months old...
Ibiza
Act like Pascalou
event2019 star_border 5.2
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A mature podiatrist, his girlfriend and her teenage children travel Ibiza to live a crazy holidays.
Jacqueline Sauvage: It Was Him or Me
Act like Norbert Marot
event2018 star_border 7.7
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On Monday, September 10, 2012, Jacqueline Sauvage shot her husband the back three times. She then learned that their son had just committed suicide. And so the most publicized trial in recent years commenced.
Papi Sitter
Act like Teddy Bardolino, Camille's maternal grandfather
event2020 star_border 6
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Franck and Karine are offered a job on a cruise ship they can’t refuse. The only problem: their daughter Camille has to study for her finals but has other ideas of fun in mind instead… No problem! To straighten his daughter out and set her to work, Franck calls on his father André, a retired captain from the national police, hopelessly uptight and rigid. With military discipline, Camille’s finals will be a success! But this is the moment when the second grandfather Teddy, an eccentric and wild former nightclub manager and the total opposite of the strict André, chooses to return after many years abroad... Living together promises to be complicated…
Les robinsonnes
Act like Fred
event2004 star_border 6
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Four women ,who have lost their husbands because of a shipwreck, decide to remain on her island and to rehabilitate a fishing boat.They are looking for four mariners ready to work in the island.
L'Extraterrestre
Act like Jean-Claude
event1999 star_border 3.7
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Chased by two androids programmed to kill him, Zerph puts down his flying saucer in Auvergne while waiting for help.
Murders in...
Act like Paul Ventura (1 ep.)
event2013 star_border 7.2
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Murders in... is a collection of French-Belgian police TV movies taking place each time in a different French city and region.
Eyewitness
Act like Milo Ubieta (6 ep.)
event2018 star_border 6.4
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Two teenagers secretly meet up in the forest, only to witness a blood bath. They are seen, but escape trying to keep this as a secret, both in fear of the perpetrator and that their secret is revealed.
The Crimson Rivers
Act like Pierre Niemans (32 ep.)
event2018 star_border 6.7
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Old-school police detective Pierre Niemans and his former student Camille Delaunay tackle complex, brutal murder cases.
La Petite Histoire de France
Act like Le père d'Ysabeau (1 ep.)
event2015 star_border 8.3
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**1810:** Renata Plancher, cousin of Napoleon, Jean Plancher, and their son Baptiste run an inn, "Chez Bonaparte," in Paris, Faubourg Saint-Honoré. Jean complains that the Emperor has shown them no regard since coming to power.
**1695:** Count Philippe Honoré de Roche Saint-Pierre, cousin of Louis XIV, was dismissed from Versailles by the king. He lives with his wife Marie-Louise at the Château de La Croûtinière, 250 kilometers from Versailles.
**1430:** François d'Arc is the cousin of Joan of Arc. He lives in Domrémy, Joan's birthplace, with his wife Ysabeau and Gaspard, a sheep breeder. François tries by all means to free his cousin, who is imprisoned by the Burgundians.
**1:** Yorik is the cousin of Vercingetorix. He lives at the salt mine of Marsal, in Gallo-Roman Moselle, with his wife Maëlle, his son Briac, his daughter Gwénola, Burgal, Maëlle's brother, and Lena, Yorik's mother.
Crimes parfaits
Act like Mathieu (2 ep.)
event2017 star_border 5.1
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Murderers think they have committed the perfect crime. But the investigators will do everything to find the flaw in the Machiavellian plan devised by each killer.
Highlander: The Series
Act like Philippe (1 ep.)
event1992 star_border 7.4
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Duncan MacLeod cannot die -- he is a 400-year-old immortal, who has seen his share of humanity's history. Still, he risks his life in battle against other immortals and tries to save people from harm.
Police Commissioner Moulin
Act like Inspecteur Mary (1 ep.)
event1976 star_border 5.8
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The series follows the adventures of lighthearted Jean-Paul Moulin, a police Commissaire, and his team as they solve crimes.
Jacqueline Sauvage: It Was Him or Me
Act like Norbert Marot (2 ep.)
event2018 star_border 7.5
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On Monday, September 10, 2012, Jacqueline Sauvage shot her husband the back three times. She then learned that their son had just committed suicide. And so the most publicized trial in recent years commenced.
The Promise
Act like Pierre Castaing (6 ep.)
event2021 star_border 6.7
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What's the worst that can happen to a police officer? Definitely an unresolved investigation. This is what happens on Boxing Day 1999. Charlotte Meyer, an 11-year-old girl, disappears without a trace. Captain Pierre Castaing, in charge of the investigation, fails to find her. Where did she go? The mystery remains intact ... A few hundred kilometers away, a young investigator finds herself confronted with a similar disappearance ...
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