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Alyse et Chloé (1970)
Character: Le mage adepte du nombril
Alyse, a successful cover girl, has had an affair with Luc Bordier, an advertising photographer, for one year now. But although Luc loves her truly, he tends to neglect her as he is too busy with his work. Chloé, who runs an advertising agency, takes advantage of these off-days to seduce Alyse. Alyse tries to hide the situation from Luc but the latter realizes what is happening. He urges Alyse to go with him on a trip to the West Indies but she refuses and joins Chloé, not without suffering from being separated from Luc...
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Je vais te manquer (2009)
Character: Marcel Hanri
In an airport, six destinies, during a short moment, will change, separate and meet. And if these characters were going through, without knowing it, the most important moment of their lives? Olivier and Lila ... Will he miss his love or will she miss the plane? Julia and Marcel ... Will she avoid death or will he mess up his life? Fanny and Max ... Will she lack of courage or will he be out of luck?
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Pourquoi (pas) le Brésil (2004)
Character: le pédiatre
A film director, whose career is going downhill, reluctantly decides to adapt an inadaptable best selling novel. Will she succeed or will the book adapt her in the process?
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Le Dernier Saut (1970)
Character: N/A
A veteran paratrooper murders his Vietnamese wife when he finds her in the arms of a younger man. Garal (Maurice Ronet) makes it back to the army base where his drunken roommate provides him with an iron clad alibi. Jauran (Michel Bouquet) is the local police inspector who befriends the Garal, unaware he is the killer. The younger man is accused of the woman's murder, but the paratrooper begins to feel overwhelmed with guilt. The longer he remains silent about the crime, the more psychological torture he must endure.
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Natalia (1989)
Character: Paul Langlade
WW2: in an occupied France, a young Jewish girl wants to become a movie star.
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Le secret de monsieur L (1983)
Character: Patrick Gemet
Journalist and television presenter Patrick Gemet accepted the invitation of Victor Lumen to visit him in his old and strange Burgundian residence.
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Le dernier plan (2000)
Character: Ludovic
Virgil Ioan, a Romanian journalist, comes to Paris to find out what happened to Constantin Dolinescu, a renowned dissident writer, who disappeared after arriving in France in 1987.
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Duo (1990)
Character: Michel
A couple who appears to have the perfect relationship finds their future in jeopardy following a scorching night of lust and debauchery in this erotic drama adapted from the controversial novel by French author Colette.
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Les Oiseaux de la lune (1974)
Character: Inspector Grindot
Valentin, the general supervisor of a sub-prefecture cram school, has a strange power: all he has to do is wish for a certain person to turn into a bird, and the metamorphosis takes place and his victims grow wings. He's in love with Sylvie, the young lady coveted by all the local males. This is how an entire small population loses its human appearance.
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La Première Fois que j'ai eu 20 ans (2004)
Character: Oncle Jérémy
In 1960s France, 16-year-old Hannah Goldman is experiencing a painful adolescence. Her Jewish background and plain appearance make her an object of ridicule, but she has a talent for music and is determined to fulfil her ambition to play in the school jazz band.
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L'Éloignement (2009)
Character: Charles
A televised broadcast of a play: the anxieties of an author who, with each new play, thinks only through the prism of media coverage. Thus, each critical response turns into a veritable exaltation of moods.
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Le Tartuffe (2021)
Character: Tartuffe
A staging of Molière's play "Tartuffe" by Peter Stein.
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Strictement personnel (1985)
Character: Jean Cottard
The crimes and tragedies that tear apart one family seem overblown in the telling, yet this psychological drama about the miseries of one French policeman is compelling throughout. Jean (Pierre Arditi) is a cop and also a failed novelist who was abandoned by his father, brother, and sister after his mother died. The trio move to Paris where they set up an art scam that nets them considerable cash -- something Jean begins to figure out when he joins them for a family reunion. Little by little, he learns that his father is an expert forger, his stepmother's art gallery seems to be involved in the scam, his brother is a derelict and into drugs, his stepmother is a hooker in addition to all of this, and his sister runs an exercise gym for keeping prostitutes in shape. Things get worse -- just when everything seems bad enough, the stepmother is murdered and it is up to Jean to find the killer.
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La Traversée du désir (2009)
Character: Self
What was your first desire? What did you long for most? Arielle Dombasle put these questions to a wide circle of famous people.
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Le Carnaval des animaux (2003)
Character: Présentateur
The Carnival of the Animals (French: Le Carnaval des animaux) is a humorous musical suite of 14 movements, including "The Swan", by the French composer Camille Saint-Saëns. About 25 minutes in duration, it was written for private performance by two pianos and chamber ensemble; Saint-Saëns prohibited public performance of the work during his lifetime, feeling that its frivolity would damage his standing as a serious composer. The suite was published in 1922, the year after his death. A public performance in the same year was greeted with enthusiasm, and it has remained among his most popular. It is less frequently performed with a full orchestral complement of strings.
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Pattes de Velours (1987)
Character: Poltergeist
Bernadette Lafont and Michel Bouquet reteam with Kaplan as, respectively, a clairvoyant and a criminologist drawn into the orbit of widow Caroline Sihol; when the latter’s late husband Pierre Arditi turns out to yet have surprises up his sleeve for all of them, Kaplan hones in on the women’s by-necessity connection. The director foregoes her own cameo in favor of ones for colleagues Jean Chapot and Claude Makovski, both as nurses.
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L'État de grâce (1986)
Character: Jean-Marc Vannier-Buchet
She is Florence Vannier-Buchet. Married to Protestant banker Jean-Marc Buchet. Florence leads a major sporting goods company with happiness and firmness. He is Antoine Lombard, Professor, son of a teacher, he is Secretary of State at the Universities. He divides his time between his ministerial activity and his riding in the working class suburb of Chartres. An elected member of the "pink wave". They met during a stormy assembly of the CNPF. The action takes place in 1983. Florence is engaged in a daring industrial and financial operation, while Antoine is putting the finishing touches to a bill for the renovation of Higher Education. Everything separates them and yet they do not manage to live separated from each other ...
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Je ne vous oublierai jamais (2010)
Character: Armand de La Frémerie
Marseille, 1941. Despite the war, young Levilé still hopes to save his mother and sisters in Poland and organize their departure for Argentina.
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De guerre lasse (1987)
Character: Jérôme
Alice is the widow of a Jewish surgeon who helps the former diplomat Jerome smuggle Jews out of Austria to save them from the Nazis. The duo recruits Charles, a shoe manufacturer whose uncle is a Nazi sympathizer in the Vichy government. Charles and Alice become lovers when they are picked up in Paris by Nazi soldiers on a curfew violation.
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Les Secrets de la princesse de Cadignan (1982)
Character: Emile Blondet
At 36, despite all the lovers she has had, amiable Diane de Maufrigneuse, Princess of Cadignan, has never found true love. She confides this to the Marquise d'Espard who offers to introduce her to a kind of man she does not suspect exists.
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Les Aventures de Zadig (1970)
Character: N/A
In the time of King Moabdar, in ancient Babylon, the young philosopher, Zadig, undergoes many misadventures.
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Un couple modèle (2001)
Character: Thomas
Two men on the brink of divorce are thrown together, yet everything opposes them: their tastes, habits, personalities. They have only one thing in common: their desire to get their wives back.
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Rêver peut-être (2000)
Character: N/A
A staging of Jean-Claude Grumberg's play "Rêver peut-être" by Jean-Michel Ribes.
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On n'est pas là pour s'aimer (2000)
Character: Maxime Vergnaud
Frédérique Letheil, who heads the research department of the Emmerson oil group, has sacrificed her private and sentimental life to her experiments. The management, which sees her work as a financial drain, has her unjustly dismissed by the group's general manager, Maxime Vergnaud. When the company realizes its mistake and the economic and ecological potential of Frédérique's research, it asks Maxime to bring her back at all costs.
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Une villa pour deux (2003)
Character: François
After the death of his father Daniel Tessard has convinced his mother Marion to come to live with him in his apartment in Paris.One year has passed and Marion is still living in the apartment.Daniel is now convincing his mother to go to live in a nice villa (that exists only in the pictures) and has contracted François Ferardini, a real estate entrepreneur for the last construction works.When he goes to see the villa,nothing has be done, it's a real disaster.Besides François tells him a lot of stories about the delay of the construction.What will Daniel do ?
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Chacun chez soi (2000)
Character: Pierre Bazeilles
Pierre Bazeille, a writer seeking a quiet place to work, sublets Félice's home, artist / sculptor in the Lot. While he is manic, meticulous and discreet, she is messy, cyclothymic and unpredictable. Living together will not go peacefully.
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Poker (1988)
Character: Duke
Helene loves to play poker for big money in men's company. But one day she looses big time against bar manager Antonio. He grants her 24 hours to come up with the 50,000 Francs. She asks all of her friends, but nobody will help her. When she finally steals the money from her brother Stephane, she gets them into serious trouble -- she didn't know where he got it.
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La 99ème Minute (1966)
Character: N/A
Death live! In the middle of filming a detective drama, the main actor Gérard Gérard dies from a gunshot. This returning star was hated by her partners... So, suicide, accident or crime? The investigation takes place before our eyes until the 99th minute. Let the masks fall!
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Mitterrand à Vichy (2008)
Character: Narrator (voice)
The dark years, those of war. This film, which combines fiction and archives, tells the story of the unusual trajectory of a young man from the provinces. Prisoner of war, escaped at the age of 24, he found himself in Vichy, capital of the French state. A convinced Pétainist, he will become a leading resistance fighter.
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Dans la peau de Fidel Castro (2010)
Character: Récitant / Narrator (voice)
Through the voice of an impersonator, the cuban hero will recount with us his political career. This tender, caustic yet authentic portrait will take us through his life from euphoria to revolt, from hollow laugh to genuine cheerfulness. Here comes... "En la Piel de Fidel".
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Un amour de cousine (1998)
Character: Pierre
Cheated on and fired from her job, Lucille leaves her suburb and moves to Paris with little hope of finding anything better. Shortly after arriving, she saves a desperate man from drowning. Pierre is also cheated on, but in terms of work, he is better off than Lucille: co-president of a large company, he lives in a luxurious apartment overlooking the Seine. To thank his benefactor, he offers her a place to stay for the night... This situation suits Lucille just fine, and she decides to stick around. Pierre is not at all pleased, as he finds the young woman to be a disaster, with manners that are too "common" for his taste, and who never misses an opportunity to put her foot in her mouth... The beginning of a turbulent and conflictual relationship. Will love conquer social differences?
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La passion du docteur Bergh (1998)
Character: Bernard Letechin
A respected German doctor, head surgeon of a hospital, sees his career jeopardized when a childhood love reappears.
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La Séparation (2005)
Character: Aristide Briand
On March 21, 1905, the hemicycle of the Palais-Bourbon resounded with the first session of a crucial and animated parliamentary debate, which was to last nearly ten months and occupy 48 sessions in the Chamber of Deputies. They have to study the bill of separation of the Churches and the State. This law, which founded laicity in France, was adopted on December 9, 1905.
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Couchettes express (1994)
Character: Jack London (voice)
Antoine steward on the night train Paris-Venice. He must cards and identity documents of travelers in 'his' pick wagon. One day, a passenger, Jean-Bernard, for protection. He suffers from an unknown illness and he is not alone on the run for scholars who want to use him as a guinea pig, but also for Brandeburg, a trader in human organs.
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Maudits (2025)
Character: Jacques
In the eighth month of her pregnancy, which she is struggling to fully accept, Lucile discovers that her paternal grandmother is not dead, as she had always been told, but is alive and well in a small village in the Morvan region. Does this secret hide a terrible curse that would strike all the boys in the family and threaten Lucile's child? Or does it hide other family secrets? Against the advice of her loved ones, Lucile leaves for Morvan, determined to face the ghosts of her past...
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La revanche de Vermeer (2017)
Character: Narrator (voice)
Narrator Steve Martin explains Vermeer's fall into obscurity and rebound into worldwide sensation, all while examining themes in his paintings, comparisons to Renaissance masters, and relevant history of Europe's politics and art market.
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Tout va bien c'est Noël! (2001)
Character: Joachim
Christmas? The joy of rejoining the family and spending the most anticipated holiday of the whole year. Seeing family members you haven't seen for a long time and spending the holidays together like when the children were little. But the children have grown up and have new things to tell. This news will turn the traditional family reunion into a hurricane. The coming out of the homosexual son is almost an outing, but one that testifies to the love that binds the two gay lovers together.
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Le Mystère de la chambre jaune (2003)
Character: Inspecteur Frédéric Larsan
Joseph Rouletabille, a reporter for a local newspaper, investigates the attempted killing of Mathilde Stangerson, who uses the yellow room of the title as her bedroom. At the time of the revolver shots her room was locked and the windows were barred, but when her father enters after having forced the door, there is no-one there except for Mathilde. So who did it and how did he get away?
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Radio corbeau (1989)
Character: Duval, l'inspecteur
This fast-paced mystery is in part based on a novel by Yves Ellena and is at least equally based on the 1943 classic Le Corbeau, which in 1951 was produced in English by Otto Preminger as The Thirteenth Letter. In this movie, someone is using a pirate radio broadcast to dish the dirt on the lives of the elite of a small French town.
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Julie, chevalier de Maupin (2005)
Character: Charles de Florensac
Agnès Dormes, a famous opera singer, saves Julie, a baby girl who was about to be sacrificed during a black mass. Twenty years later, the baby has turned into a beautiful energetic twenty-year-old young lady determined to find out about her origins. In Avignon, Julie manages to meet Agnès and discovers on the occasion she is not her real mother. A series of adventures will ensue and at a time Julie is nearly burned on the stake. But she eventually achieves her end and can marry, a street performer close to her heart.
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La Passerelle (1988)
Character: Jean Nevers
Neighbors overcome, Cora and John meet in the favor of an accident - a fall from the balcony of the family apartment - which has suffered the son of Cora. Taking the man responsible for the state of her child, the mother yet close to John. A strange relationship develops between them.
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Pas sur la bouche (2003)
Character: Georges Valandray
A musical drawing room farce set in Paris in October, 1925. Gilberte, in middle-age, flirts with men but loves her husband Georges, wishing he were more demonstrative. He's negotiating a deal with an American, Eric Thomson, who turns out to be Gilberte's first husband from an annulled and secret stateside marriage. Along with her sister Arlette, Gilberte begs Eric not to tell Georges about the marriage. Meanwhile, a young artist, Charly, pursues Gilberte while Arlette tries to match him with the young Huguette, who loves him. Will Eric play along or try to re-win Gilberte's affection? Can Gilberte play one off against another? And who will manage to kiss whom on the lips?
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Comme un avion (2015)
Character: Fisherman who looks like Pierre Arditi
Michel, a fifty year old man, graphic designer, decides to change the urban lifestyle and go on an adventure. Fascinated by airmail, he dreams at Jean Mermoz when he's on scooter. One day, Michel sees a picture of a kayak.
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Les Clefs de bagnole (2003)
Character: Actor who refuses to film with Laurent
Who would think losing car keys could lead us that far ? Be careful, adventure is on every street corner...
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Le Hussard sur le toit (1995)
Character: Monsieur Peyrolle
In a time of war and disease, a young officer gallantly tries to help a young woman find her husband.
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Smoking / No Smoking (1993)
Character: Toby Teasdale / Miles Coombes / Lionel Hepplewick / Joe Hepplewick
"Smoking" and "No Smoking" are two segments of the film which are based on closely connected plays. The original plays covered eight separate stories, which have been pared down to three each for these movies. At a certain point in the story of each segment, the five female characters (all played by Sabine Azema) and the four male characters (all played by Pierre Arditi) have their lives skillfully recapped in terms of "what might have happened" if they had made or failed to make certain choices. For example, "No Smoking" focuses chiefly on the relationship between the mild-mannered Miles Coombes and his infinitely more aggressive and ambitious wife, Rowena.
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Nos amis les Terriens (2007)
Character: Le narrateur (voix)
What on earth would extraterrestrials think if they could observe us? This is the movie they made.
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Maestro(s) (2022)
Character: François Dumar
The Dunars are conductors from father to son. François' long and brilliant international career come to an end, whereas Denis has just won an umpteenth classical music award. When François is chosen to be the head of the Scala, his ultimate dream, he can't believe it. Happy at first for his father, Denis quickly become disillusioned when he discovers that he was, in fact, chosen to go to Milan.
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La Petite Allumeuse (1987)
Character: Armand
Fifteen-year-old Camille is a vulnerable and a strong-willed seductress- she chooses, she takes, she leaves; she can go very far in her desire for freedom. She is the daughter of disunited parents, Armand, a professor and Colette, an intellectual bourgeois. She manages to seduce Jean-Louis, a professor of letters of thirty-seven years, friend and colleague of her father. She makes him commit a lot of extravagance - he even dyed blond. Later she had a passion for Samuel, a former student of Jean-Louis, lout and trafficker. She is not easy, men learn at their expense, either sentimentally, as with the teacher, or that the first sexual experience come to ignite the relationship with Samuel.
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Batailles (2008)
Character: N/A
"Resumption of a play created in 1983. Two shipwrecked people on a makeshift raft in the middle of a social conflict, a mountaineering fight on Mount Paterhorn, improbable friction between two men and a woman in the Yvelines ... The places, the situations change, but each time there is a confrontation. The question is not so much who will win, but to take pleasure in the arguments provided by the opponents. Cunning, bad faith, all blows are allowed in what is primarily a fight of words. "
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L'Amour à mort (1984)
Character: Simon Roche
A man is haunted after waking up from his sleep, during which he was pronounced dead by his doctor.
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Blaise Pascal (1972)
Character: Blaise Pascal
In this evocative, atmospheric biography, Roberto Rossellini brings to life philosopher and mathematician Blaise Pascal, who, amid religious persecution and ignorance, believed in a harmony between God and science.
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Mitterrand, président culturel (2021)
Character: Self (archive footage)
On the occasion of the fourty years anniversary of François Mitterand's election, a look back to the relationship between the President and artists, from admiration to manipulation.
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Ils s'aiment… enfin presque ! (2022)
Character: Martin
Follows the intertwined stories of five couples and their entourage, living in the same opulent Parisian building, over the four seasons of the year.
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Le Courage d'aimer (2005)
Character: Pierre
A picture of humankind in Paris: singers, shows, social gatherings, businessmen, nightclub barmen, bums, shoppers.
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Vous n'avez encore rien vu (2012)
Character: Orphée #1
From beyond the grave, celebrated playwright Antoine d'Anthac gathers together all his friends who have appeared over the years in his play "Eurydice." These actors watch a recording of the work performed by a young acting company, La Compagnie de la Colombe. Do love, life, death and love after death still have any place on a theater stage? It's up to them to decide. And the surprises have only just begun...
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Plaisir d'amour (1991)
Character: Guillaume de Burlador
Guillaume de Burlador is a private tutor who hits a low point sufficiently severe for him to contemplate a somewhat theatrical suicide. Instead he is taken off by flying boat to a mad French colonial possession bedecked by mad servants and crazy decor. Three educated and rather gorgeous women live there, and they hire him to tutor a young teenager, but more with plans to seduce him in mind.
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Bonjour l'angoisse (1988)
Character: Jean-Hugues Aymeric
Anxious and shy, Michaud works for a company that specializes in alarms, safes and other security devices.
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Le Trésor du Petit Nicolas (2021)
Character: M. Moucheboume
In the peaceful world of Little Nicholas, there is Daddy, Mommy, the school, but above all, his band of friends. They are called The Invincibles, but above all they are inseparable. At least they think so. But when Dad gets a promotion and announces that the family is moving to the south of France, Nicolas' world falls apart. How can he imagine life without his best friends?
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Adieu Blaireau (1985)
Character: La Grenouille
Fred is a gambler and deep in debt. He owes crime boss Victor a lot of money and the time to pay has come. He decides to take a massive risk to refund his debts and agrees to kill a man. Fred knows he has to pay his debt and that the only way to do it is to carry out the hit arranged by Victor.
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Bacri, comme un air de famille (2022)
Character: Self
Jean-Pierre Bacri was never happy about anything. But beyond the caricature of the grumpy man, from his apprenticeship years to his death in January 2021, this film tells the story of this quintessential Frenchman: a man turned towards others, an actor by accident, a moralist by vocation, who was left unaffected by flattery and false honors by success, and ready for all kinds of anger when it was necessary to speak out against injustice and stupidity. The film tells the story of how Jean-Pierre Bacri's life changed several times: from Algeria to France when he was eleven years old in 1962; from bank clerk to apprentice theater actor; from Pieds-noirs film star to screenwriter for Alain Resnais; and from Cannes playboy to Agnès Jaoui's mad lover, the most decisive encounter for his life as well as for his work
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On connaît la chanson (1997)
Character: Claude
Odile is a business executive looking for a new, bigger apartment. Her younger sister Camille has just completed her doctoral thesis in history and is a Paris tour guide. Simon is a regular on Camille's tours because he's attracted to her. Camille has fallen for Marc, and they begin an affair. Nicolas is also looking for an apartment, since he hopes to eventually have his family join him in Paris.
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Vanille fraise (1989)
Character: Antoine Boulanger
Husband finds out that his wife is a secret agent and that she has a handsome partner.
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Sentiments provisoires (2010)
Character: Marc
A young woman announces to the man she has lived with for ten years that she is leaving him ... and that she is leaving him for his best friend.
But is it so easy to break up a couple and lose a friend? ... "
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Mémoire trouble (2022)
Character: Pierre Garlat
Garlat, a former cop, agrees with Voltaire's maxim, but when confronted with evidence manipulation in one of his former investigations, he is forced to ask himself other questions. Is memory selective? Did he really fabricate evidence? So who is he? And is this man in prison guilty? With his son, Nicolas, a cop like him, Garlat returns to Paris and takes up the investigation again.
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Cœurs (2006)
Character: Lionel
In Paris, six people all look for love, despite typically having their romantic aspirations dashed at every turn.
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Tailleur pour dames (2008)
Character: Moulineaux
Doctor Moulineaux, "serious and established" after a dissipated youth, lives a bourgeois life with his wife Yvonne and his servant Étienne. But he has gone to the Opera ball to win the heart of the elegant Suzanne Aubin. He arranges to meet her in a mezzanine that belonged to a seamstress. Impromptu visits from his acquaintances force him to pretend to be a tailor.
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La Fausse Suivante (2000)
Character: Trivelin
A young woman disguises herself as a knight to expose a gold-digging man divided between her and a Countess.
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Les Enfants (1985)
Character: Le journaliste
Ernesto, a seven-year-old boy who has the body of a thirty-year-old man, decides, upon attending his first day of school, that he no longer wishes to attend, because he does not wish to be taught matters that he does not know.
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La Fleur de l'âge (2013)
Character: Gaspard Dassonville
Gaspard Dassonville may be 63 but he stubbornly refuses to show his age. A well-known television producer, he amuses himself with women who are half his age, and life has never felt so good. Then, one day, his age catches up with him with a vengeance, when he is forced to take care of his elderly father Hubert. An indomitable oldster, Hubert soon manages to unsettle his son’s illusory youth, but things take an unexpected turn when a care assistant with a colorful imagination comes between them...
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Le Parfum de la dame en noir (2005)
Character: Frédéric Larsan
Newly married, Mathilde and Robert are honeymooning at a resort owned by their friends Edith and Arthur, the Chateau d'Hercule. But an unpleasant shock is in store for them.
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Musée haut, musée bas (2008)
Character: Henri Province
Un conservateur terrorisé par les plantes vertes, une mère plastifiée pour être exposée, un ballet de Saintes Vierges, des gardiens épuisés par Rodin, un ministre perdu dans une exposition de sexes, une voiture disparue au parking Rembrandt, des provinciaux amoureux des Impressionnistes, touristes galopins galopant d'une salle à l'autre, passager clandestin dans l'art premier, Picasso, Gauguin, Warhol, ils sont tous là dans ce petit monde qui ressemble au grand, dans ce musée pas si imaginaire que ça, valsant la comédie humaine jusqu'au burlesque.
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Le Grand Restaurant : Réouverture après travaux (2021)
Character: The actor who rehearses
He had opened his Great Restaurant twice, in 2010 and 2011, as part of an entertainment broadcast on France 2. Pierre Palmade “reopens it after work” in the form of a fiction offered by M6. Exit the brewery. The artist has chosen to shoot his film at the Froufrou, the restaurant at the Théâtre Édouard-VII, in Paris, a chic establishment with rococo decor, more solemn and therefore more appropriate to important moments in life, to his big announcements that make the subject of a series of sketches. They are interpreted by a cast of stars just as prestigious as that of his comrade Muriel Robin a few weeks ago in I Love you coiffure , on TF1. As a common thread, Pierre Palmade in the role of the host busy satisfying his customers, while ensuring that his mother (Marthe Villalonga), his competitor (Florence Foresti) and her cook husband (Jean Leduc) do not transform the evening in disaster.
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Victoire (2004)
Character: le père
Victoire is sweet, sensitive, nice and understanding. She leads an existence which doesn't leave her much time to wonder.
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Mélo (1986)
Character: Pierre Belcroix
Pierre Belcroix and Marcel Blanc are violinists and lifelong friends living in Paris in the 1920s. While Marcel has become famous and Pierre has not, both are happy with their lives. Pierre is happily married to Romaine, a stylish young flapper. However, Marcel meets and falls in love with her, which Marcel little suspects.
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Le Grand Appartement (2006)
Character: Adrien
Francesca and her husband, Martin, are dreamers. They live a carefree existence oblivious to the increasingly hostile world closing in on them. Their huge Parisian apartment is a refuge for an array of colorful characters in need of a roof over their heads and in particular for Adrien, a filmmaker who turns their home into his office, studio and love-nest. When their mean landlady tries to evict them all and Martin succumbs to the charms of a beautiful vamp, Francesca comes up with some original and entertaining solutions in the defense of her and everybody else's happiness.
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Les clés du Paradis (1991)
Character: Gaspard Cavaillac
Two brothers, one very successful and the other not, switch places with each other, exchanging jobs and wives.
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Les Acteurs (2000)
Character: Pierre Arditi
Les Acteurs is the absurd story of Jean-Pierre Marielle desperately waiting for a cup of hot water, the story of a conspiracy against actors, the story of aging actors whose careers are slowly less active than they used to be, but a stunning tribute to French actors and their cinema.
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La Petite Apocalypse (1993)
Character: Henri
An unknown Polish writer can't publish his novels, so his ex-wife decides to help him and get some of the profit for herself. She finally finds a publisher, but there's a strange single condition that could cost the writer his life.
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Bancs publics (Versailles rive droite) (2009)
Character: Mr. Borelly
As she does every morning, Lucie takes advantage of her journey to work to lose herself for a while in the pages of a good book. And as she does every morning, she joins her colleagues at the office with a smile. It's a working day just like any other. Then suddenly all activity in the office stops. All attention is turned towards the window of the opposite building opposite and abanner reading: Man Alone. Is it a hoax? A cry for help? Everyone has his own interpretation, and will try, by any means possible, to discover what lies behind this mysterious message.
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Smoking (1993)
Character: Toby Teasdale / Miles Coombes / Lionel Hepplewick / Joe Hepplewick
"Smoking" and "No Smoking" are two segments of the film which are based on closely connected plays. The original plays covered eight separate stories, which have been pared down to three each for these movies. At a certain point in the story of each segment, the five female characters (all played by Sabine Azema) and the four male characters (all played by Pierre Arditi) have their lives skillfully recapped in terms of "what might have happened" if they had made or failed to make certain choices. For example, "No Smoking" focuses chiefly on the relationship between the mild-mannered Miles Coombes and his infinitely more aggressive and ambitious wife, Rowena.
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Messieurs les enfants (1997)
Character: Joseph / Pope
To punish three troublemakers, Albert Castraing, their French teacher, gives them an essay to do, in which they must imagine what their lives would be if they were suddenly transformed into adults. The next morning, the three twelve-year-old boys realize to their amazement that...they HAVE BEEN transformed into adults! As for they parents they have become...KIDS! It is the beginning of a series of mishaps for Joseph, a Jew, Igor, a catholic and Nourdine, an Arab...
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Mon oncle d'Amérique (1980)
Character: Zambeaux, le représentant de la direction générale à Paris
Prof. Henri Laborit uses the stories of the lives of three people to discuss behaviorist theories of survival, combat, rewards and punishment, and anxiety. René is a technical manager at a textile factory and must face the anxiety caused by corporate downsizing. Janine is a self-educated actress/stylist who learns that the wife of her lover is dying and must decide to let them reunite. Jean is a controversial career-climbing writer/politician at a crossroads in life.
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Vivace (2011)
Character: Gilles Vasseur
A young couple, Pauline and Alex, moves from Paris to a quiet neighbourhood in the French countryside. Pauline loves to take care of her garden and the plants. She is also fascinated with her older neighbour Gilles who lives alone. They spend much time together and he helps her with her garden. Finally, he gives her a special plant from Brasil as a gift. The plant needs a lot of attention and is sensitive to the mood around it. As the plant grows, it takes up all of Paulines time which endangeres her relationship with Alex.
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Suivez mon regard (1986)
Character: The publicist
A long parade of actors and actresses pop up in an unconnected series of skits, vignettes, and sight gags in this comedy anthology by Jean Curtelin. Among the sketches performed is one with Jean Carmet playing a man from the sticks woefully burdened with the challenge of getting through a dog food commercial on less than one tank of intelligible French. Another skit shows a silent duel between an airport custodian and an automatic door, while another with the renowned Michel Galabru sets up a strange teacher-student exchange.
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Coup de cœur (2015)
Character: Jean-Pierre Berthelot
Jean-Pierre is a brilliant surgeon. The problems of his nearest and dearest don't interest him. But when he discovers that he too has a serious heart disease which needs operating on, Jean-Pierre finds out what it is to be a patient.
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Beaumarchais, l'insolent (1996)
Character: Narrateur (non crédité)
Beaumarchais the Scoundrel is a biopic film based on the life of the French playwright, financier and spy Pierre Beaumarchais depicting his activities during the American War of Independence and his authorship of the Figaro trilogy of plays.
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Le Voyage en pyjama (2024)
Character: Jules César
40-something Victor, humanities professor and amateur meteorologist, is a madcap, a friendly dabbler, who lives day by day, alongside is wife Anne.
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No Smoking (1993)
Character: Toby Teasdale / Miles Coombes / Lionel Hepplewick / Joe Hepplewick
"Smoking" and "No Smoking" are two segments of the film which are based on closely connected plays. The original plays covered eight separate stories, which have been pared down to three each for these movies. At a certain point in the story of each segment, the five female characters (all played by Sabine Azema) and the four male characters (all played by Pierre Arditi) have their lives skillfully recapped in terms of "what might have happened" if they had made or failed to make certain choices. For example, "No Smoking" focuses chiefly on the relationship between the mild-mannered Miles Coombes and his infinitely more aggressive and ambitious wife, Rowena.
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Quelque chose a changé (2018)
Character: Louis-Régis Dupont-Moreau
Outvoted by his board of directors and hounded by the press, the Parisian CEO of a large company finds refuge for the weekend in a country inn run by his ex-wife.
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Hommes, femmes : Mode d'emploi (1996)
Character: Professeur Lerner
Benoit Blanc loves living, he loves women, he loves daring. He is a famous businessman who suffers from stomach-ache. Fabiolini, a would-be actor, is a policeman and he too suffers from the same sickness. The two man face suffering in opposite ways: Benoit Blanc is optimistic while Fabiolini, always unsure of himself, is persuaded he is seriously ill. The two men meet by chance while doing a gastroscopy and become friends. After having known their real different conditions, they will change and will understand better their lives. Around them, other people, women and men, will see their lives changed, by chance, by love or solely by the life stream.
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La vie est un roman (1983)
Character: Robert Dufresne
In this whimsical fable, Resnais deftly interweaves three story lines: the creation of an early-20th-century utopia; romantic high jinks at a school conference; and a fantasy sparked by F/X pioneer Georges Méliès.
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Les Estivants (2018)
Character: Jean
A large and beautiful property on the French Riviera. A place that seems out of time and sheltered from the rest of the world. Anna goes there with her daughter for a few days of vacation. Amidst her family, friends and the house staff, Anna has to handle her fresh break-up with her partner and the writing of her next film.
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Le Code a changé (2009)
Character: Henri
So called friends at a dinner party end up acting like a dysfunctional family.
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Ensemble c'est trop (2010)
Character: Henri
Imagine, if you will, a somewhat contented married woman finding out her husband's infidelity during the celebration of a birthday party. That is what happens to Marie-France, when her husband, Henri, pulls out panties from his pocket to be used as a handkerchief. Marie-France becomes furious, storming out of the house. His son, Sebastian and his wife, Clementine, a struggling couple, decide to take Marie-France to their tiny apartment, something they feel it is a temporary arrangement. Little did they know what they were getting into...
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Le château des singes (1999)
Character: Le Roi (Voice)
Kom is from a tribe of monkeys who live in a canopy. He rejects elders' authority as well as the superstition that the lower world would be inhabited by demons. But he accidentally falls from the trees…
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Bambou (2009)
Character: Reynald Van Nuyten
Alain hopes to have a baby with his wife Anna. However, Anna believes she is destined to become a famous pianist rather than a housewife and mother. Everything changes when they adopt a female puppy named Bambou. After successfully passing an audition, Anna leaves on a concert tour with a world famous conductor. Being apart takes its toll on the couple and they decide to break up. Alain finds himself alone, without a wife or a baby--just a dog, that he is not sure he wants to keep.
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Compromis (2020)
Character: Denis
2 thirty year old friends in an empty apartment. One is a mediocre comedian, the other a failed playwright. The former sold his apartment and asked the latter to be present when the compromise was signed, to reassure the buyer. Because if he writes very bad plays, he still has a reassuring face. It’s its great quality. We're waiting for the buyer. Besides, buyer or pigeon?
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Adieu Berthe ou l'enterrement de mémé (2012)
Character: Le père d'Armand
A provincial chemist in the throes of a mid-life crisis must choose between burying his dearly departed grandmother and cremating her in this quirky comedy of manners starring Valerie Lemercier, Denis Podalydes, and Isabelle Candelier.
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Flag (1987)
Character: Commissaire Pierre Tramoni
A repentant gambler, Simon is a senior inspector in the banditry repression brigade headed by his friend Pierre Tramoni. Pierre is brilliant and wants to go far. Simon has no ambition and only one passion: gambling. For several months, Simon has been trying to catch the Djian brothers, young and dangerous bank robbers, in the act. He fails but discovers, through an informer, strange links between Pierre and the Djians, during his investigation which leads him back to the gambling halls. When the Djians finally fall, the treachery of Commissioner Tramoni is revealed.
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La Belle Époque (2019)
Character: Pierre
Victor, a disillusioned 60-something whose marriage is on the rocks, opts to relive the week of his life when, 40 years earlier, he met his true love through a company that allows customers to return to the time period of their choosing.
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Alain Resnais, l'audacieux (2022)
Character: Self
A genius inventor of forms, Alain Resnais is one of the fathers of cinematic modernity. This portrait, rich in archives, looks back on the career of a discreet non-conformist, in perpetual search of renewal to fight against anxiety.
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L'Affaire Dreyfus (1995)
Character: Col. Esterhazy
In 1894, the French Army discovered the existence of a traitor Alsatian and Jewish, the French officer Alfred Dreyfus makes an ideal culprit. For lack of evidence, the War Ministry creates a damning document Dreyfus overwhelming. Judged and sentenced, Dreyfus is deported to Devil's Island. In 1896, the Army flushed out the real culprit. The truth broke out in 1898 thanks to the mobilization of intellectuals shaken by Zola's "J'accuse!"
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Roses à crédit (2010)
Character: M. Georges
A young couple marry in France in the 1940s and the film follows the arc of their marriage over the next decade. As France recovers from the trauma of the war, the wife finds herself increasingly caught up in acquiring material possessions while the husband prefers a more traditional lifestyle.
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Hasards ou coïncidences (1998)
Character: Pierre Turi
Once a successful dancer, Miriam has abandoned her career to bring up her son, Serge, after her boyfriend walked out of her.
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Une Ferrari pour deux (2002)
Character: Vincent Saulnier
A boss decide to bring a Ferrari to a footballer and meet on the trip an ex-employee he fired few months ago. Since the boss get stopped by the police because he drove to fast, they have got no choice except to help each other.
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Le Grand Alibi (2008)
Character: Henri Pages
Like every weekend senator Henri Pagès and his wife entertain guests at their beautiful mansion in a peaceful village near Paris. But this time around, things go awry: Pierre Collier, a psychoanalyst and consummate womanizer, is brutally murdered. Claire, his wife, dazed and confused by his corpse, with a smoking gun still in her hand, seems to be the ideal culprit...
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Pile ou face (1980)
Character: Pierre Larrieu
Since his wife died, Inspector Louis Baroni (Philippe Noiret) has become a virtual recluse, preferring the solitude of his quiet house to the company of others. His period of mournful contemplation is broken when he is called out to look into the suspicious death of Madame Morlaix who, according to her husband Edouard (Michel Serrault), fell from an upstairs window. Curious to find out more, Baroni begins his inquiry.
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Agent Trouble (1987)
Character: Stanislas
Amanda Weber is a museum employee. Her nephew, Victorien, who feels that wild animals should not be kept in zoos, while hitchhiking saw a mysterious bus with 50 dead tourists that later was found by autorities at the bottom of a lake. When Victorien gets in very serious problems due to what he saw Amanda seeks to find out what happened and soon also becomes a target.
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Mr & Mme Adelman (2017)
Character: Claude de Richemont
How did Sarah and Victor get along for more than 45 years? Who was this enigmatic woman living in the shadow of her husband? Love, ambition, betrayals and secrets feed the story of this extraordinary couple, as they experience both the large and small moments of the last century's history.
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On a volé ma VF (2024)
Character: Self (archive footage)
Documentary on the French dubbing industry. A journey through pop culture, the power of voice, artificial intelligence...
French dubbing actors of stars like Brad Pitt, Tobey Maguire, Daniel Craig, Woopy Goldberg or Morgane Freeman, the most talented and known in France tell the story of French dubbing through the strike that immobilized the country's industry and the breaking point between art and business. They also testify to the importance that dubbing has had, its scope and the future it will face with the evolution of artificial intelligence.
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I Love You Coiffure (2020)
Character: François Fleury (segment "Le Psychanalyste")
Liliane and Maud are twin sisters. The first is a modest provincial hairdresser while the second leads the great life in Paris. They both fight over their mother's custody.
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L'Île bleue (2001)
Character: Alexandre, Mellie's father
France, 1940. German troops have just invaded the country, but in the rural idyll of the family chateau inhabited by 20-year-old Mellie with her impoverished aristocrat father Alexandre and adolescent cousin Robinson, the war still seems far away, apart from the fact that Mellie's rich and unpopular fiancé André has been drafted into the army. For Robinson and his friends the same age, including the temperamental Bertrand, the war is merely a game they play in the remoteness of the blue island in the lake.
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L'Amour violé (1978)
Character: Julien
Nicole, nurse in Grenoble, is raped one night by four men. Deeply scarred, emotionally and physically, she thinks she will never recover from the trauma. Following a friend's advice, she decides to file a lawsuit.
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La Femme et le Pantin (1990)
Character: Mathieu
Matthieu, a mature and wealthy French businessman, meets Estrella in Barcelona, a teenager with a humble family, who is subjugated by his youth, spontaneity, candor and mischief.
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Quand sort la recluse (2019)
Character: le docteur Cauvert
After three elderly men are bitten by spiders, everyone assumes that their deaths are tragic accidents. But at police headquarters in Paris, Inspector Adamsberg begins to suspect that the case is far more complex than first appears.
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Les Choses humaines (2021)
Character: Jean Farel
The Farels are a power couple: Jean is a prominent French pundit and his wife Claire an essayist known for her radical feminism. Together they have a model son, Alexandre, who is a student at a prestigious American university. During a brief visit to Paris, Alexandre meets Mila, the daughter of his mother’s new partner, and invites her to a party. The next day, Mila files a complaint against Alexandre for rape, destroying family harmony and setting in motion an inextricable media-judicial machine that posits opposing truths.
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Adieu Paris (2022)
Character: Jacques
An old Parisian bistro with eternal charm. Eight gentlemen at the table, eight great figures. They were the “kings of Paris”… National treasures, masterpieces in peril. A well-honed ritual ... A sense of humor and self-deprecation intact. Tenderness and cruelty. Eight old friends who hate and love each other. And suddenly an intruder ...
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L'un reste, l'autre part (2005)
Character: Alain
A story about two couples, longtime friends in which both husbands engage in long-term affairs and, as the title says, ultimately one remains with his wife and one makes a new life with another woman.
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