Birthday:
05-06-1959
(65 years)
Birthplace:
Paris, France
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The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc
Act like Dijon
event1999 star_border 6.4
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In 1429, a French teenager stood before her King with a message she claimed came from God; that she would defeat the world's greatest army and liberate her country from its political and religious turmoil. As she reclaims God's diminished kingdom, this courageous young woman has various amazing victories until her violent and untimely death.
Empire of the Wolves
Act like Coroner
event2005 star_border 5.7
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When the young detective Paul Nerteaux finds the third slashed female corpse of illegal Turkish immigrants, he decides to ask for support to the experienced dark retired detective Jean-Louis Schiffer to chase the serial killer. Together, they infiltrate in the Turkish mafia trying to find the answer to the crimes. Meanwhile, the worker Anna Heymes is being submitted to a brain treatment and has severe headaches and glimpses of memories and visions. When these two parallel events collide, disclose that the Turkish organization "The Wolves" is behind them.
La Femme Nikita
Act like The Ambassador / Jules, his double
event1990 star_border 7.1
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A beautiful felon, sentenced to life in prison for the murder of a policeman, is given a second chance – as a secret political assassin controlled by the government.
Le Horla
Act like Attal
event2023 star_border 5.9
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Damien and Nadia, 34, leave Paris with Chloé, their 8-year-old daughter, to settle in the provinces. Graphic designer for an events company, the first negotiated a full-time telework to follow his partner who has just been offered a position at the Rivière Research Institute where her friend and colleague Marion already works. The couple are expecting a child. But behind this new beginning hides a deaf threat that will soon implode the happiness of this seemingly perfect family.
Tomorrow's Another Day
Act like Patient 1
event2000 star_border 4.8
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A group of Parisians frets over the minutiae of life in the course of one week.
Moliere
Act like Bonnefoy
event2007 star_border 6.4
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Molière, a down-and-out actor-cum-playwright up to his ears in debt. When the wealthy Jourdain offers to cover that debt so that Molière's theatrical talents might help Jourdain win the heart of a certain widowed marquise, hilarity ensues.
My Friends
Act like Serveur Café
event2006 star_border 4.5
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Manon, Aurore and Marie would like to represent their school at the Youth Challenge “Dance Special” organized by Paris’s city hall. If they win, they could have a month’s vacation in a country of their dreams, free from all constraints.
The Widow of Saint-Pierre
Act like le chef douanier
event2000 star_border 6.6
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In 1850, on the isolated French island of Saint-Pierre, a murder shocks the natives. Two fishermen are arrested. One of them, Louis Ollivier, dies in custody. The other, Neel Auguste, is sentenced to death by the guillotine. The island is so small that it has neither a guillotine nor an executioner. While those are sent for Auguste is placed under the supervision of an army Captain.
The Landlords
Act like M. Marigot
event2002 star_border 5.5
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Directed by Rémi Waterhouse, Mille Millièmes is centered around an eccentric ensemble of apartment residents. Kindness is noticeably absent among their quarters, as demonstrated by a dating pair of neighbors whose request to have their apartments connected was flatly denied. To make matters worse, beggars gathering at a charity event are cruelly tormented by various tenants during the Christmas season. Last but not least is the Portuguese concierge whose services are in danger of being replaced by a more cost-effective alternative, and a widow whose recent loss earns her no sympathy from the rent-demanding landlords.
Felix and Lola
Act like l'homme en gris
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...
Maigret
Act like The judge
event2022 star_border 5.8
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In Paris, a young girl is found dead in a Parisian square, wearing an evening dress. Commissioner Maigret will try to identify her and then understand what happened to the victim.
Loser Takes All!
Act like Vaugris - le chef du laboratoire
event2004 star_border 5.4
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Serge Vaudier, a mathematics teacher, wins the lotto twice and claims he can do it again, thanks to an infallible system he has designed. Is a he genius or a con man? Angèle, the head of the the government's bureau, is determined to entrap him. She asks her secret lover, Jacques Loriot, an expert player in the casinos, for help.
Melody for a Hustler
Act like Inspecteur
event1998 star_border 2.6
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French novelist Vincent Ravalec made his directorial debut with this French drama about small-time crook Gaston (Yvan Attal) who poses as a millionaire after he picks up hitchhiking 16-year-old Marie-Pierre (Virginie Lanoue). Actually living in a seedy apartment, Gaston deals in stolen goods, but he soon climbs to bigger heists, including car thefts. Concealing his illegal activities, Gaston operates his company, Extramill, out of upscale, posh offices, while he and Marie-Pierre move into a sedate upper-middle-class neighborhood. Life is sweet, but the onset of paranoia, kinky sex activities, and police probes eventually culminate in violence.
Tonka
Act like The race commissioner
event1997 star_border 5
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A famous sprinter considers quitting competition, when he gets to meet Tonka, an Indian woman living in a big advertising coke can near Roissy Charles De Gaulle airport. She is naturally talented for running, and the sprinter decides to train her to become a sprinter like him. As they fall in love, Tonka cheers him up, and then tries to pursue him to take over competition.
La queue de la comète
Act like Paul Matalon
event1988
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Octave and Alice are in love. Theo, rejected by Alice, whom he also loves, works as an informer for a hospital that sells women's wombs. He makes Alice fall and Octave will not be able to get the young woman out of her situation. But he still loves Alice and will continue to sing for her.
Just Retired
Act like Jean-Louis the Thanatopractitioner
event2019 star_border 5.5
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Marilou and Philippe prepare for their future retirement in Portugal. But their daughter separates and a whole procession of solicitations falls on them.
Goal of the Dead
Act like Dr. Belvaux
event2014 star_border 5.4
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For the Olympique de Paris soccer team, this away match scheduled against Caplongue was merely supposed to be one last chore before the end of the professional season. Yet no one could ever have imagined that an unknown rabies-like infection was going to spread like wildfire, turning this small town’s inhabitants into ultra-violent and highly contagious creatures.
The Chorus
Act like Mr. Langlois
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.
Justice de flic
Act like Sartori
event1986
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A gangster, whose younger brother has been forced into prostitution by a rival gang, tracks down the criminals with the help of his girlfriend. Bloody accounts will be settled under the eye of a sadistic commissioner.
Heat of Desire
Act like Le guichetier de la SNCF
event1981 star_border 5.9
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In France in the near future, revolt and chaos erupt. A right-wing politician, Philippe Muphand, is set to take control when his lady friend Caroline walks out, announcing she will take up with the first fool she sees. The fool is Serge Laine, a professor and author of the prize-winning "Le voyage qui ne finit pas," headed to the train station for tickets to Barcelona where he and his wife will enjoy a second honeymoon and he will lecture at the university. Caroline seduces Serge, and he soon abandons wife, family, job, and honesty to embrace Caroline, the romanticism of Jack London, and murder.
Monsieur Batignole
Act like Administrateur
event2002 star_border 7
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In 1942, in an occupied Paris, the apolitical grocer Edmond Batignole lives with his wife and daughter in a small apartment in the building of his grocery. When his future son-in-law and collaborator of the German Pierre-Jean Lamour calls the Nazis to arrest the Jewish Bernstein family, they move to the confiscated apartment. Some days later, the young Simon Bernstein escapes from the Germans and comes to his former home. When Batignole finds him, he feels sorry for the boy and lodges him, hiding Simon from Pierre-Jean and also from his wife. Later, two cousins of Simon meet him in the cellar of the grocery. When Pierre-Jean finds the children, Batignole decides to travel with the children to Switzerland.
Harkis
Act like Préfet
event2022 star_border 5.9
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During the Algerian War (1954-1962), many impoverished young Algerian men, known as "Harkis", volunteered to join the French Army. Salah and Kaddour find themselves under the orders of Lieutenant Pascal. But as the conflict draws to an end, the prospect of independence looms. The outlook for Harkis seems bleak. Lieutenant Pascal confronts his superiors, insisting that every single man in his platoon must be evacuated to France.
Made in France
Act like Customer
event2001 star_border 9
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Patrick Morel has his limits tested when he's thrown in jail after a misunderstanding with the lovely Sonia and the brash Youssef, all three of them bound for deportation until a last-ditch escape frees them in more ways than one.
The Right Person for the Job
Act like Jean
event2015 star_border 7.2
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Jean is waiting a interview for a job with Remi.
Manipulations
event1984
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Julien, an honest policeman, is asked to infiltrate a terrorist organization. He soon meets the charming Brigitte. But soon, manipulated by his superior, Julien finds himself involved in a dangerous affair: a gigantic campaign of intoxication.
My Best Friend
Act like Luc Lebinet
event2006 star_border 6.1
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Catherine refuses to believe that her business partner, the unlikeable François, has a best friend, so she challenges him to set up an introduction. Scrambling to find someone willing to pose as his best pal, François enlists the services of a charming taxi driver to play the part.
Rituels meurtriers
Act like Robert
event2011
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Three cops of different hierarchy are shattered by the tragic death of their beloved sister. They come across three murder cases and all murders follow a similar pattern like that of Masonic rituals.
À bicyclette
Act like Monsieur Richard
event2001
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During the winter of 1995, while a transport strike paralyses the Ile de France, Anne and Patrice go to work by bicycle. Their meeting at a traffic light will change their lives.
Taxi
Act like Passenger to Airport
event1998 star_border 6.7
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In Marseilles (France), skilled pizza delivery boy Daniel who drives a scooter finally has his dreams come true. He gets a taxi license. Caught by the police for a huge speed infraction, he will help Emilien, a loser inspector who can't drive, on the track of German bank robbers, so he doesn't lose his license and his dream job.
Nuit féline
event1978
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A César award nominated short feature.
Le rat noir d'amérique
Act like Painter
event1981
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A César award nominated short drama.
Lucie sur Seine
Act like Chabrier
event1982
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Louis is a delivery boy, his wife Chantal is a supermarket salesgirl. Louis is bored, and decides to buy a truck and go to the Lebanon, but he has no money. He tries to rob the supermarket where Chantal works, but it goes wrong and he kills the cashier and watchman...
My First Analyst
Act like Shrink
event2016 star_border 6
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Ivan has an appointment with a psychologist for his first session.
Transit
Act like Inspector Lo Piero
event1982
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François Cremer is a truck driver who gets out of prison after having served a sentence of several months for a traffic of which he has always proclaimed himself innocent. He soon realizes that he is being followed and threatened by former acquaintances. Alone against all, he has no other recourse than to ask for help to a radio hostess, who had orchestrated a campaign for his release. She becomes frightened and refuses to help him, but he forces her to follow him in his escape. Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)
Casting
Act like Man of the cast
event1983
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A famous director wants to make a film about true love, the kind his grandparents experienced when they lived together for 60 years. For this project, he holds auditions in a commercial real estate office. He asks the actors and actresses he meets to tell him about their conception of Love, with results that differ from those he expected...
Taxi 2
Act like Passenger
event2000 star_border 6.2
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A cabdriver and a cop race to Paris to rescue a love interest and the Japanese minister of defense from kidnappers.
Le grand moment de solitude
Act like Alain
event2010
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Today it is the father's birthday. All the family are gathered around the cake. Between revelations, quiproquos and dressing-downs, a dinner in family which turns up numerous surprises.
Mon p'tit Bernard
Act like Bernard Bouchard
event2020
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Freshly retired, Bernard now has only one obsession: to win the next regional athletic walking race!
The Chameleon Slayer
Act like Lazare
event2015 star_border 5
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Pattern never changes. She finds lonely, anonymous, almost invisible women doing menial jobs, becomes their friend and confidante and then kills them and takes their identity, their job and their apartment. Police investigator Judith Corel serves as bait in an attempt to trap the chameleon killer.
Dead Tired
Act like The Inspector
event1994 star_border 6
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Stressed and overworked, famous French movie star Michel Blanc is beginning to wear down, physically and mentally, from the pressure and demands of fame. Already in a fragile state of mind, strange events start to transpire all around him, and he gradually loses his grip. Taking the advice of a psychiatrist, Blanc retreats to the countryside with his friend Carole Bouquet, but Blanc still has not managed to escape all of his problems.
The Eyes of the Birds
Act like Victor Benavente
event1983
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A Red Cross inspection team visits a prison and holds interviews with a range of inmates.
One for the Road
Act like Docteur Marcus
event2009 star_border 6.2
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Herve, the head of a press agency, is traveling fast down a road headed in only one direction: self-destruction. He is an alcoholic, and his drinking is wrecking his marriage, family and career. In desperation and still in denial, he checks into a detox clinic in Geneva, his last-chance saloon. There he meets a group of fellow sufferers and one person in particular, a young woman named Magali, who help him to see life other than through the bottom of an empty bottle.
J'ai perdu Albert
Act like Roland Buech
event2018 star_border 4.1
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Chloe has been living a successful life thanks to one trick: Albert Einstein is in her mind. But one day, he decides to move and chooses another body: Zac, a depressive beekeeper.
Cycling with Molière
Act like Director of the theater
event2013 star_border 6.5
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Serge Tanneur is at the pinnacle of his acting career when he decides to turn his back on show business and become a hermit living off of France’s Atlantic coast. Three years later, Gauthier Valence, a beloved TV actor, shows up on the island to offer Serge a role in his directorial debut – a rendition of Molière’s classic play, “The Misanthrope”. Serge refuses at first, but then suggests that they rehearse the first scene and after five days he’ll decide if he wants to dothe play or not. What ensues is a battle of brawn and wits and peculiar encounters with a hotel maid who longs to be a pornstar and an Italian divorcée.
The Women on the 6th Floor
Act like Piquer
event2011 star_border 6.8
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Paris, in the early 1960s. Jean-Louis Joubert is a serious but uptight stockbroker, married to Suzanne, a starchy class-conscious woman and father of two arrogant teenage boys, currently in a boarding school. The affluent man lives a steady yet boring life. At least until, due to fortuitous circumstances, Maria, the charming new maid at the service of Jean-Louis' family, makes him discover the servants' quarter on the sixth floor of the luxury building he owns and lives in. There live a crowd of lively Spanish maids who will help Jean-Louis to open to a new civilization and a new approach of life. In their company - and more precisely in the company of beautiful Maria - Jean-Louis will gradually become another man, a better man.
The Suicide Shop
Act like Feverish Man / Husband (voice)
event2012 star_border 6.4
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In a cold French city where suicide is a common urge, there is a colorful shop, managed for many years by the Tuvache family, where it is very easy to obtain the necessary tools to satisfy the sinister desires of so many depressed citizens.
Happy End
Act like Maître Barin
event2017 star_border 6.2
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A well-to-do French family living in Calais deal with a series of setbacks and crises while paying little attention to the grim conditions in the refugee camps within a few miles of their home.
Boudu
Act like L'amateur à la galerie d'art
event2005 star_border 4.7
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A modern remake of Renoir's classic film. Aix-en-Provence, a spring night. Christian Lespinglet, an over-indebted gallery owner, rescues a homeless man, Boudu, from the waters of a canal who was trying to drown himself. Heroic to his detriment, he brings him home, for a few hours only... The incongruous arrival of Boudu will act like a mad dog in the game of skittles that is Christian's life...
Ridicule
Act like Le généalogiste
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.
Rendez-vous manqués
Act like Jacques
event1986
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To relieve her boredom, a lonely woman embarks on adventures that turn out to be disappointing.
Eugénie Grandet
Act like Abbé Cruchot
event2021 star_border 6
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Felix Grandet reigns supreme in his modest house in Saumur where his wife and daughter Eugenie lead a distraction-free existence. Extremely avaricious, he does not take a favorable view of the beautiful parties who rush to ask for his daughter's hand. Nothing should damage the colossal fortune he hides from everyone. The sudden arrival of Grandet's nephew, an orphaned and ruined Parisian dandy, turns the young girl's life upside down.
The Minister
Act like Man of networks
event2011 star_border 6.4
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Transport Minister Bertrand Saint-Jean is awoken in the middle of the night by his head of staff. A bus has gone off the road into a gully. He has no choice but to go to the scene of the accident. Thus begins the odyssey of a politician in a world that is increasingly more complex and hostile.
Paris 36
Act like Triquet, Galapiat's henchman
event2008 star_border 6.2
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A star is born in a time of both celebration and instability in this historical drama with music from director Christophe Barratier. In the spring of 1936, Paris is in a state of uncertainty; while the rise of the Third Reich in Germany worries many, a leftist union-oriented candidate, Léon Blum, has been voted into power, and organized labor is feeling its new power by standing up to management.
Quidam
Act like Merlin
event1984
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In a small, gloomy town, a killer is on the prowl, forcing the residents to shut themselves away in their homes. Despite this oppressive climate, Wendy continues to receive her lover in her home and to revel in an impossible love. But one night, the dangerous criminal sees the young widow at her window and decides to knock on her door.
The Pact of Silence
Act like Chaumelle, le scientifique
event2003 star_border 5.9
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Everyone has a secret. Twins Sarah and Gaëlle near 25; for ten years, Sarah has been a fundamentalist Carmelite in a Brazilian convent, and Gaëlle has been in prison for a heinous crime. Sarah comes to the attention of Fr. Joachim, a priest and physician; he can find no cause for her debilitating abdominal pain. When Sarah and he are transferred to Paris, Joachim looks for Gaëlle, now on probation and finding no respite from society's approbation. An enterprising reporter is digging into Gaëlle's life, the mother superior of Sarah's convent hovers over her, and Joachim investigates the phenomenon of twin's symmetry. Is there any release from the past?
A Day to Remember
Act like Franck
event1991
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Bertille is an old woman who lives in the countryside. Her relatives reunite there with her as she is about selling the property. They don't take long to out their true intentions which are merely material on her estate. Also, Bertille is afflicted by her youngest son who has been in prison for a decade. Decades of fighting over Einstein's stick of truth has made Bertille very frail and easy to come down on.
The Poisoner
Act like President Guirec
event2006 star_border 7.6
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Loudun, October 1947. Leon Besnard and Marie celebrate their eighteenth wedding anniversary with friends and Ady, a former German prisoner they have "adopted". A few days later, Leon dies. Louise, a friend of the couple's and probably Leon's mistress claims that, on his deathbed, the deceased told her that Marie was poisoning him. The whole town soon condemns Marie and she is arrested and sent to jail. Did she really kill Léon as well as twelve other members of her family as she finds herself charged with?
His Name Was Vian
Act like Marcel Arland
event2011
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In a cinema, the day of the premiere of J'irai cracher sur vos tombes (adapted from his novel), Boris Vian has a heart attack. During his discomfort, he relives the major stages of his life: the meeting with Raymond Queneau, the nights of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, the scandal of J'irai cracher sur vos tombes, his love stories with Michelle Léglise then Ursula Kubler or his relationship with Jean-Paul Sartre. Through his memories, Boris Vian relives all his “parallel lives”.
Joséphine, Guardian Angel
Act like Fergus (1 ep.)
event1997 star_border 5.7
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Josephine Delamarre is a guardian angel that Heaven sends to earth. With her psychological insight, ability of persuasion and magical powers, she manages to help people who have problems. She appears at the beginning of each mission; when the mission is completed, she disappears with a click of her fingers.
Tony's Revenge
Act like Charley (8 ep.)
event2011 star_border 6.2
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Tony Roucas, a long-term convicted criminal, escapes from prison with Kenz, a small-town big shot. Their run reveals a generational conflict of a new genre. Tony’s quest for truth and desire for vengeance take you to the heart of great French organized crime, from the 50s to today.
Nina
Act like Edouard Barzigues (1 ep.)
event2015 star_border 5.8
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At the age of 39, Nina finds herself a trainee nurse under the orders of Léo, a 15-year-younger "girl" with a difficult temperament, and Dr. Proust, who likes to scare her ... Not easy ! Especially for all, Nina is the wife of the boss, Costa Antonakis, his ex with whom nothing is really settled despite their divorce. But after healing Lily, their daughter, for ten years, nothing scares Nina! With years spent in hospitals in contact with doctors such as nurses and health-care aides, Nina, the daughter of a great internist and a renowned obstetrician, runs the risk of disappointing them to trace her own path in the hospital universe to which she can not really escape ... Listening and care as a profession of faith, the desire to live and love as a prescription ...
Capitaine Marleau
Act like M. Girardin (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.
Murders in...
Act like Olivier Surreau (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.
The Traveller
Act like Claudel (1 ep.)
event2019 star_border 7
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Hunting down killers to help bereaved families get justice is more than just a job; it’s a duty for Thomas Bareski, a retired, hotshot police detective eager to reopen unsolved murder cases in a mission to find the culprits.
Police Commissioner Moulin
Act like Le directeur de la banque (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.
La Dame d'Izieu
Act like Senior Vichy official (2 ep.)
event2007 star_border 6
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When on April 6, 1983, just a few months after the arrest and extradition of Klaus Barbie on French soil, Sabine Zlatin found herself alone in Izieu to commemorate the roundup of April 6, 1944, only one question arose: after her, who will maintain the flame of the memory of the 44 Jewish children arrested and deported that day? Sabine's concern is all the more acute when she learns that the Izieu roundup cannot be included in the trial of the former Nazi, for lack of evidence. Sabine fights so that the children of Izieu are not permanently forgotten by history.
Les Cinq Dernières Minutes
Act like Roger (1 ep.)
event1958
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Les Cinq Dernieres Minutes is a crime based French television series
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