
Birthday:
05-16-1952
(72 years)
Birthplace:
Geneva, Switzerland
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Le Divorce
Act like Antoine de Persand
event2003 star_border 5
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While visiting her sister in Paris, a young woman finds romance and learns her brother-in-law is a philanderer.
Love Me No More
Act like Etienne
event2008 star_border 7.1
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Antoine Méliot is around 40 years old and has everything he needs to be happy: a beautiful wife, two adorable children, friends he can count on, a pretty house in the Yvelines and money. But one day he decides to ruin everything in one weekend.
The Accompanist
Act like Jacques Fabert
event1992 star_border 6.9
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In Nazi-occupied Paris, a young accompanist named Sophie Vasseur gets a job with famed singer Irene Brice. As Irene's husband Charles, a businessman collaborating with the Nazis, wrestles with his conscience, Sophie becomes obsessed with Irene, taking on the role of maid as well as accompanist, living life vicariously through Irene's triumphs and affairs.
Strayed
Act like Robert
event2003 star_border 6
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Fleeing the June 1940 arrival of Hitler's army in Paris, a young war widow and her two children are rescued from dive-bombing German fighters by a cocky, reckless teenager. He finds them refuge in an abandoned house, but despite the fact that the family quickly comes to be depending much on his cunning and survival abilities, their cohabitation proves uneasy.
Priez pour nous
Act like Raoul Guidon de Repeygnac
event1994 star_border 5.5
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The Guidon de Repeygnac, a family of aristocrats ruined by the Stock Exchange, leave their mansion in Neuilly for two F4s in the red suburbs.
The Conquest
Act like Dominique de Villepin
event2011 star_border 5.8
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A look at French president Nicolas Sarkozy's rise to power.
Season's Beatings
Act like Pierre
event1999 star_border 5.9
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Christmas, family, and infidelity. Yvette's husband has died, and her grown daughters join her at the grave: Sonia, wealthy, bourgeois, and generous; Louba, living with their dad Stanislas, singing at a Russian restaurant, penniless, the mistress for the past 12 years of a man who will never leave his wife; Milla, the youngest, acerbic, lonesome. Christmas was when they learned their parents were divorcing 25 years ago. Over the next few days, yuletide depression, Louba's pregnancy, Sonia's crumbling marriage, Stanislas's overtures to Yvette, and Milla's attraction to the man who's her father's rent-free lodger lead each one to re-examine self, family, and hopes. Is renewal possible?
And Now... Ladies and Gentlemen...
Act like le trompettiste
event2002 star_border 5.6
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A jazz singer and a British jewel thief are brought together by their mutual desire to forget the past.
Sagan
Act like René Julliard
event2008 star_border 6.2
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France, 1950s. From the Quartier Latin to Saint-Tropez via New York, a young Parisienne becomes the icon of a whole generation. In 1954, 19-year-old Francoise Sagan shot to fame with her first novel, Bonjour Tristesse. Flamboyant, scandalous and underrated, Sagan lived her life at the furthest edge of excess. She won and lost fortunes at the roulette table, bought and crashed superb sports cars, drank, danced and partied, leaving a trail of lovers in her wake.
What War May Bring
Act like Horst
event2010 star_border 6.3
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A theater projectionist's daughter is involved in the Resistance in WWII, but she doesn’t share his political involvement & only believes in passion. She follows the men she loves unconditionally, suffering betrayal and hardship.
Notre-Dame on Fire
Act like General Gontier
event2022 star_border 6.6
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A film relating from the inside the Notre-Dame de Paris fire of April 2019.
J'ai faim !!!
Act like le kiné de Lily
event2001 star_border 4.9
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A chubby forty-ish florist is dumped for a gorgeous young woman. She decides to lose weight and to ruin her rival's life in order to win her handsome lover back.
Life's Little Treasures
Act like Pickpocket
event1994 star_border 5.1
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This movie is about love affairs, simple pleasures of a few men and women who will gather for a few days in a villa, around a piano and the music of Gottschalk who is perhaps the main actor.
Charming Fellow
Act like Hypolite
event2001 star_border 4
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Octave and his friends, Achille and Hector, wander around at night in the grocery stores, the regulars' restaurants and the creepy bars. Octave meets Esther by chance. These two people have diametrically opposed characters. She is beautiful, cultured, free, creative, while he is rude, violent and whiny. The latter falls in love with her. The game is going to be difficult.
Marie-Octobre
Act like Robert Cabris
event2008 star_border 6
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After the Liberation of France during the World War II, ten former Resistant fighters meet again during a dinner organized by Marie-Octobre...
Trois couples en quête d'orages
Act like Olivier
event2005 star_border 5.3
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Olivier, Rémi and Pascale are three friends who have known each other since childhood. As they approach middle age, they each experience something of a crisis in their lives. Olivier, a doctor before becoming wheelchair bound, faces a bleak future after the break up of two relationships. The fact that Rémi and his wife Estelle are unable to have children puts an increasing strain on their marriage. And Pascale, a filmmaker, is on the point of leaving her husband to pursue an affair with an opportunistic career politician.
Le Zèbre
Act like Nogaret
event1992 star_border 5.5
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Hippolyte, the titular oddball, is a far from typical country lawyer. He has been happily married to the woman of his dreams for 15 years, but has an incurable penchant for practical (or rather impractical) jokes.
Tales from the Zoo
Act like Armand
event1994
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In Paris, near the end of World War II, crotchety professor Fernand Bonnard maintains a zoo and continues his research. He's a coward, as is his debonair son, Armand, who has one daughter, Philippine. On her eighth birthday, Armand picks her up from her repressive boarding school and takes her to Fernand's to celebrate. Father and son quarrel, and Armand leaves, only to be arrested and shot for violating curfew. In grief, the curmudgeonly Fernand does not tell Philippine, but invents a life for Armand as a captain of the Resistance. Fernand takes her from school to live with him and his sensible wife. Along the way, Philippine finds out the truth and Fernand discovers courage.
A Crucial Test
Act like The publisher
event1996
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The tumultuous relationship between a publisher battling breast cancer and her teenage daughter who refuses to feel sorry for herself.
In case of Bad Luck
Act like Sam
event2009 star_border 6.4
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Lucie was supposed to sleep with the jeweler but hadn’t foreseen the alarm. The jeweler noticed the scheme and attacked Lucie’s accomplice Noémie. Lucie defended her, pushed her and the jeweler fell , stunned. Thinking to have killed her, Lucie goes to see a lawyer, who will take her under her wing.
Un pique-nique chez Osiris
Act like Ariel Cohen
event2001 star_border 5
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The year is 1898. Héloïse, 9 years old, comes from a family belonging to the anti-Dreyfus and anti-Semitic Parisian high bourgeoisie. In a spirit of revolt, she begins a love affair with Maxime, a young Jewish journalist. During a terrible quarrel with her father, the latter suffers a stroke and dies. To get her away from Maxime, her mother Mathilde and her cousin Olympe take Héloïse on a trip to the Orient. After Cairo and the Pyramids, they go up the Nile and cross the desert in a caravan.
Another World
Act like Gabriel de Kerdiguen
event2011 star_border 3.2
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1915. Louis, aged 17, arrives on Reunion Island to find his father, Count Kerdiguen. He has built himself a new family with Salima, his native partner, and their daughter Sita. Between the white and native communities, tensions are increasingly mounting...
Le grand Batre
Act like Arnaut
event1997
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The story of a family and a tradition that remain the same despite the time going by, in a land that has existed for centuries. In La Camarga, one of the last natural sanctuaries that still exist, the Azéracs, landowners and aristocrats, work as wild bulls breeders. Shaken by passion and revenge, the family will have to face the adversities of a fate marked by the events that define the 20th century. In spite of this, the family will struggle to survive in an environment strongly bound to traditions and land.
Les belles-sœurs
Act like David
event2011 star_border 4.8
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Nicole invites her husband's two brothers and their wives for their housewarming party. Except that she also asked the assistant of one of them, the mysterious Talia, to come. This does not seem to please the other guests.
Winter Cherry 3
event1995 star_border 3.8
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The main character, whose life seemed to have lost all meaning, suddenly receives an inheritance abroad. This leads to the most unexpected consequences, the most important of which is a new, this time happy, meeting with your beloved.
Petits arrangements avec ma mère
Act like Fabien
event2012 star_border 6
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Fabien has been a manager for years. Overnight, this 40 year old man is unemployed. His wife Daniela pushes him to recover an apartment he had made available to his mother, Marie-Louise. But the woman is not at all ready to leave the apartment, especially not since she now has a new boyfriend, André.
L'amour est un jeu d'enfant
Act like Cyril Fournet
event1994
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Benjamin lives with his widowed father, a designer and a bohemian artist. Olivia, his best friend, lives with his divorced mother, a lawyer who lives only for his work. Children decide to organize a meeting between the two parents, but unfortunately, neither seems interested in the other. Still, the two friends did not give up and seek new ways for the emergence of love between their parents.
Murder In Aigues-Mortes
Act like Charles de Fontbrune
event2015 star_border 6.6
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A young lawyer's murder rocks Aigues-Mortes and triggers the re-opening of a cold case.
Same Sex Parents
Act like Antoine
event2001 star_border 5.2
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A jealous classmate exposes the fact that Olympe has 2 gay parents. Feeling ostracized and humiliated, Olympe lashes out at her closeted mother. Life unravels so that the truth can set them free.
Moka
Act like Simon
event2016 star_border 6
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Diane Kramer is led by one obsession: to find the driver of the mocha color Mercedes which hit her son and devastated her life. With a few belongings, some money and a gun, she goes to Evian, where she's learned the driver lives.
À demain sans faute
Act like Thibaut
event2012 star_border 6
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A housewife, wife of an influential businessman, vanishes. Her neighbor decides to investigate.
Nailcruncher
Act like Solal
event1988 star_border 5.2
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Adapation of the fanciful comic novel by Albert Cohen.
Being George Clooney
Act like Self
event2016 star_border 6.1
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A documentary that delves into the creative, often humorous world of audio dubbing a Hollywood motion picture for the international market.
The Elegant Criminal
Act like The abbot of Lusignan
event1990 star_border 5.2
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On 9 January 1836, Pierre Lacenaire goes to the guillotine, a murderer and a thief. He gives Allard, a police inspector, his life story, written while awaiting execution. He also asks Allard to care for Hermine, a lass to whom he has been guardian for more than ten years. In flashbacks, from the prison as Lacenaire writes, from Allard's study as he and Hermine read, and from other readers' memory after the book is published, we see Lacenaire's childhood as he stands up to bullies, including priests, his youthful thieving, his first murder, his brief army career, his seduction of a princess, and his affair with Avril, a young man who dies beside him.
Un si joli bouquet
Act like Luc
event1995
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A young investigative journalist is about to publish a book with revelations about power and corruption. Three days before her television appearance, her apartment is devastated by an explosion. Forced into exile, she goes to the countryside where she meets a particularly endearing person.
De Gaulle, the Last King of France
Act like Narrator (voice)
event2017 star_border 8
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Charles de Gaulle, the first president (1958-1969) of the Vth Republic, France’s current system of government, left his mark on the country . He was statesman of action and has been compared to a monarch. This film depicts the general’s personality through the great events of his presidential term, at a time when the world was undergoing considerable changes.
Flairs ennemis
Act like Mathias
event1996 star_border 4
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By becoming attached to animals, one can learn to love humans. This is what Mathias Lefort, a thirty-five year old photographer, will discover. Mathias has a feeling of disgust towards dogs, all dogs, coupled with an irrepressible terror. This very special phobia will change Mathias' life the day he witnesses an attempted murder.
The Happiest Place on Earth
Act like Rudiger
event1999 star_border 1
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The story of Robert Hughes-Lambert, who was captured by Nazis when his active homosexuality was discovered during the filming of Mermoz (1943).
Arthur Rimbaud, l'homme aux semelles de vent
Act like Édouard-Henri Lucereau
event1995
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After abandoning his poetry, from 1880 until his death in 1891, Arthur Rimbaud drifts between Yemen and Abyssinia as a shopkeeper, trader, explorer, and arms trafficker.
Murders in...
Act like Alexandre (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 Art of Crime
Act like André Jaumard (1 ep.)
event2017 star_border 6.4
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Fired for insubordination, PJ Antoine Verlay, good cop but a blood strand and having difficulty working as a team, is attached to the OCBC (Central Office for the fight against Traffic in Cultural Goods) thanks to the intervention of the commander Pardo, his friend who becomes, therefore, his new superior. A clever investigator, but a stranger to everything related to culture, Antoine will have to work with Florence Chassagne, renowned art historian, who lives, speaks and breathes culture, to the point that - fruit of her great imagination - it happens to her in the midst of daydreams, to see and talk to the great artists who have disappeared as if they were familiar to her.
The Little Murders of Agatha Christie
Act like Swan Laurence (27 ep.)
event2009 star_border 7.4
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French adaptations of the stories by Agatha Christie.
The Forest
Act like Gaspard Decker (6 ep.)
event2017 star_border 6.8
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In a small quiet village in the Ardennes, a sixteen-year-old girl disappears into the forest after calling her teacher in the middle of the night. Captain Gaspard Deker, a former soldier and newly arrived single father is conducting the investigation with Virginie Musso, the local cop. Also helping is the teacher, Eve Mendel, a solitary young woman with a mysterious past: she was found as a child by the villiage doctor wandering silently in the same forest.
L'Allée du roi
Act like Louis de Mornay, marquis de Villarceaux (2 ep.)
event1996 star_border 6
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The life of the Marquise de Maintenon, who was the wife of the poet Scarron before becoming, under the seal of a secret marriage, the wife of King Louis XIV.
The King’s Favorite
Act like François 1er (2 ep.)
event2022 star_border 5.2
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It follows Diane de Poitiers, an emeritus huntress whose unalterable beauty fuels rumors and legends during her lifetime - and even in her death.
Off Track
Act like Bernard Duvack (6 ep.)
event2023 star_border 6
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Elsa and Laurent, happy parents of Lucie, have lived a perfect love affair for twenty years. Until one morning, Elsa disappears without trace. Laurent's world collapses when the police inform him that Elsa was in fact a very different person from the one she pretended to be.
Service volé
Act like Franck Maraval (2 ep.)
event2021
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For twenty years, she said nothing. Isabelle Demongeot, the former French women's tennis champion, had been sexually abused by her trainer from the age of 13 to 22. It shattered her career and ruined her private life. How could she have let it happen? How did no one see? Was she the only victim? Now, after years of silence, Isabelle is stepping up to the net, ready to tell the story of how she took on a courageous, extraordinary battle to bring down her abuser.
Dead Beautiful
Act like Le préfet (1 ep.)
event2011 star_border 7.2
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As group leader of the Judicial Police in Paris, Martin is responsible for investigating the most atrocious and misogynistic crimes committed against society. Distrustful of everyone, he bears the marks of both his past successes and failures. Luckily, the ladies in his life are on hand to assist him.
De Gaulle, l'éclat et le secret
Act like Charles de Gaulle (6 ep.)
event2020 star_border 7.5
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Explores the life of General De Gaulle, from the Appeal of June 18, 1940, to his departure from power in 1969. A dive into the military and political career of De Gaulle and an inside portrait of his private life.
The Wagner Method
Act like Christian Haas (1 ep.)
event2020 star_border 6.7
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Police Captain César Wagner is a compulsive hypochondriac, obsessed with his work. His singular, distinctive style unsettles not only his suspects but also the members of his squad.
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