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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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Alexandre Trannoy - L’Œuvre invisible (2026)
Character: Self (archive footage)
This profile of director Alexandre Trannoy is profoundly moving. But you would be forgiven for asking 'Alexandre who?' because Trannoy never completed a single film in his 30-year career, despite working on multiple projects and with illustrious names like Jean Rochefort, Anouk Aimée, Lino Ventura and Marlene Dietrich. A fascinating study of a noble dreamer.
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Les Vacances de Noël (2005)
Character: Edouard Baer
Two men, fifty years young, seduce younger women at the Cannes Film Festival and are quite successful as long as there are no youngsters among them.
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À voix haute (2017)
Character: Guest of Honour
Raise the voice, speak eloquently, construct and argue a discourse. Tools so necessary in life as exciting to build. In Paris, the date of Eloquentia, an oratory contest where young people —not exactly privileged— will measure their strength, is approaching.
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Black Snake, la légende du serpent noir (2019)
Character: Henry Thouvenel
After years spent in Paris, Clotaire Sangala returns to his native country, Africa. Raised by a Chinese martial arts grandfather, convinced to have been found in a garbage can, Clotaire knows nothing of the glorious past of his parents. He will become "Black Snake", the masked and ultra-sapped superhero, liberator of the people against the dictator Hezekiah.
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Raï (1995)
Character: N/A
Raï is about a gang of youths in a Parisian suburb.This is the multicultural environment in which Mezz, Aziz, Laurent, Nordine, Poisson and the others have grown up. There is no future in Garges-les-Gonesses. Unemployment is high, drugs and violence are a part of everyday life. The opportunity to escape seems nonexistent.
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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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Les Barons (2009)
Character: Jacques
The Barons have a motto: "slack off more to live longer." Every human being is born with a credit of steps. Every step you take brings you closer to death. We Barons know this from the start.
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La Bonne Épouse (2020)
Character: André Grunvald
Paulette Van Der Beck and her husband have been running the housekeeping school of Bitche in Alsace for many years. Their mission is to train teenage girls to become the perfect housewives at a time when women were expected to be subservient to their husband. After the sudden death of her husband, Paulette discovers that the school is on the verge of bankruptcy and has to take her responsibilities. But while preparations are underway for the best housekeeping competition TV show, she and her lively students start questioning their beliefs as the nation-wide protests of May 1968 transform society around them. Reunited with her first love, André, and with the help of her eccentric stepsister Gilberte and strict nun Marie-Therese, Paulette joins forces with the schoolgirls to overcome their suppressed status and become liberated women.
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Une Exécution ordinaire (2010)
Character: Vassilli
During the last days of Stalin's reign, a doctor (Marina Hands) tries to go unnoticed in a society of mutual dread where a neighbour or colleague might "denounce" you to the authorities at any moment.But tales of her healing touch have spread and one night she is taken away, not to the infamous Lubyanka prison, but to the Kremlin to attend the ailing Comrade Stalin himself. Uncle Joe (André Dussollier), an old man racked with pain but still as watchful and deadly as a snake.
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Les invincibles (2013)
Character: Stéphane Darcy
Momo has one dream buried for years: become a petanque champion. When an international tournament is announced, he drops his ordinary life to win the first prize and fulfill his dreams.
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Je pense à vous (2006)
Character: Hermann
Diane lives with publisher Hermann but everything is spoiled when Worms, Hermann’s loyal author and friend, reveals in his new book the affair he once had with Diane, in a highly subjective manner. She soon discovers the contents of the work, which Hermann tries to hide from her, and takes on a lawyer to defend her privacy. But this is only the beginning of a mess that simply gets worse and worse, leading to an unexpected, brutal ending.
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La Chambre des magiciennes (2000)
Character: Simon
Claire Weygand, a thirty-year-old young woman who is about to defend her anthropology thesis, unfortunately not only feels bad but even worse and worse with each passing day. The migraine attacks she suffers from indeed keep her from working as hard as she should and in despair she decides to consult Doctor Fish. When the medicine the physician prescribes for her fails, Claire, who can't take it any more, asks him to hospitalize her. In hospital, Claire shares her room with Odette, a young woman who has lost the use of her legs and Eléonore, a frightening old woman. The third episode from "The Blindfold" by Siri Hustvedt.
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Molière (2007)
Character: Dorante
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.
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Combien tu m'aimes ? (2005)
Character: Edouard
After winning the lottery, François goes to a bar in Pigalle and offers one hundred thousand Euros per month to a prostitute named Daniela to live with him as his wife until his money runs out.
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J'ai toujours rêvé d'être un gangster (2008)
Character: Gino - le braqueur
Told in four vignettes, this existential comedy relates the exploits of four aspiring criminals who hope to improve their lot, but find that they might not have what it takes for a life of crime.
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Daaaaaalí ! (2024)
Character: Dalí
A young French journalist repeatedly meets iconic surrealist artist Salvador Dalí for a documentary project that never came to be.
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Rien sur Robert (1999)
Character: Alain de Xantras
Didier never knew that a wrong film review of a film which he did not bother to watch would land him in numerous troubles.
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Mensonges et trahisons et plus si affinités… (2004)
Character: Raphaël Jullian
Raphael is a ghostwriter who takes a job writing for famous footy player Kevin. To his delight and his girlfriend, Murials horror, Kevins current girlfriend is an old (easily rekindled) flame of Raphaels. A freak accident leaves a close friend dead and Raphael is forced to reconsider his priorities.
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La Fille coupée en deux (2007)
Character: Self
A TV weather girl is torn between an older man, a famous married author whom she loves but who won't leave his wife, and a semi-deranged young heir to an industrial fortune who loves her.
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Milady (2004)
Character: le vicomte de Wardes (not credited)
Milady De Winter, a beautiful femme fatale without scruples, plays with the feelings of her suitors. And sometimes very dangerously.
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Betty Fisher et autres histoires (2001)
Character: Alex Basato
When bestselling novelist Betty Fisher loses her young son in a tragic accident, her unstable mother resorts to unusual actions to alleviate Betty's grief, actions which set off a chain reaction among a promiscuous waitress and her criminal associates.
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Mademoiselle de Joncquières (2018)
Character: Marquis des Arcis
When a romance between a widow and a notorious libertine takes an unexpected turn, Mademoiselle de Joncquières becomes instrumental to one lover’s plans for revenge.
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Les Brigades du Tigre (2006)
Character: Inspector Pujol
The film, set in 1912, is about the exploits of France's first motorized police brigade.
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Le Bison (et sa voisine Dorine) (2003)
Character: Louis Le Bison
Isabelle Nanty is a Paris concierge, four children to look after and a fifth in gestation with a loutish and uncaring husband who runs off with the girlfried of one of the lodgers in her building. This same lodger called Le Bison has rather strange hours and both he and Dorine ( the concierge ) get on each other's nerves because each makes noise at the "wrong" time for the other ! The fact that their respective mates have run off together nevertheless bring the two together and with Dorine's children getting very attached to Le Bison, there are the makings of an "idylle" between the two of them which the return of the two offending mates fails to break
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Poulet aux Prunes (2011)
Character: Azraël
Since his beloved violin was broken, Nasser-Ali Khan, one of the most renowned musicians of his day, has lost all taste for life. Finding no instrument worthy of replacing it, he decides to confine himself to bed to await death.
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Mon pote (2010)
Character: Victor Gallien, boss of a car magazine
The story of a friendship between Victor, owner of a magazine, and Bruno, a car thief.
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Seuls Two (2008)
Character: Le prêtre
A bumbling Paris policeman is doggedly determined to capture the master thief that repeatedly eludes him, even when they're the last two men on Earth.
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Jean Rochefort, l'irrésistible (2020)
Character: Self (archive footage)
If Jean Rochefort remains so dear to our hearts, it is because this extraordinary actor alone embodies a cinema and a France imbued with freedom and carelessness. Through his films, archives and the testimony of those close to him, we discover a complex man, a sad clown saved by his taste for words and for fun.
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Terra Willy, planète inconnue (2019)
Character: Buck (voice)
Terra Willy: Unexplored Planet — Upon the destruction of their ship, Willy is separated from his parents. He lands on a wild and unexplored planet and with the help of Buck, a survival robot, he will have to hold until the arrival of a rescue mission.
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Un Monde à nous (2008)
Character: Marc
Noé comes into sixth grade at the same time he discovers a new city and a new house where he has just moved with his father, Marc. Coached by him, Noé takes intensive training of combat sport. And Mark does not hesitate to put him in a situation of attack. They are in danger, he must be prepared to respond to any aggression. While keeping the secret of his "double" life, Noé has to learn how to find a place in his new college. He becomes friend with Marine, a young girl full of energy. Noé discovers a world whose vision was shaped by his father so far. A father so near and yet so mysterious. Between them there is a history of complicity and confrontation.
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Поліна і таємниця кіностудії (2019)
Character: Chemist
11-year-old Polina, who knows nothing about her past and parents, lives with her spiteful aunt and wicked cousin. They secretly plan to get rid of the girl at the day of her birthday, all to get their hands on her mysterious inheritance. Chased by the villains, Polina manages to escape on a magical quest to discover the secret about her family. But she only has until midnight to achieve this goal.
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Le Grand Restaurant (2010)
Character: Un client du restaurant
Fragments of the lives of the customers of a great restaurant and the inconvenience of its manager.
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Les Frères Sœur (2000)
Character: Blaise
The Soeur brothers would like to work in the film making business. They wrote a complex story that doesn't make any sense, and nobody wants to produce it. They're willing to do anything in order to make their film come to life.
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Phantom Boy (2015)
Character: Alex Tanguy (voice)
At a hospital in New York, Alex, a police officer, meets Leo, a boy who has the ability to get out of his body and pass through the walls like a ghost. Both team up with Mary, an intrepid journalist, to capture a disfigured villain who terrorizes the city.
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Cravate Club (2002)
Character: Adrien
Two architects and best friends have a difficult time sharing an office and their troubled private lives.
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Akoibon (2005)
Character: Daniel Stain
A disparate group of people meet at a hotel on a gorgeous and isolated Mediterranean island. Meanwhile, a woman schemes to get even with its owner.
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Turf (2013)
Character: Freddy
This is the story of four French friends: the Greek (an osteopath), Fifi (who lives with his mother), Fortuné (a West Indian) and Freddy (a gambler). They meet up regularly at a Parisian bookmakers’, their favourite haunt. Tired of frittering away the little spare cash they have, they agree to give up gambling. But no sooner have they taken this pledge than Fate intervenes, in the guise of the turf king, Monsieur Paul. The latter persuades the four friends to buy a champion racehorse, not knowing that it is in fact an old nag…
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Raoul Taburin (2019)
Character: Hervé Figougne
If anyone knows anything about bikes, it’s Raoul Taburin, official bicycle dealer of Saint Céron, a lovely village in the South of France. But Raoul has a terrible secret: he has never been able to keep his balance on a bike without using stabilisers. His childhood and teenage years were spent trying to overcome his flaw - in vain. All attempts to tell his secret have also failed. Nobody believes him. When photographer Hervé Figougne moves to Saint Céron, the two men become fast friends. And when Figougne offers to photograph Raoul riding a racing bike along a mountain precipice, the moment of truth has arrived. He does all he can to avoid the photo shoot. But everything goes against him and he finally has to accept his destiny. “At least”, he thinks, “people will have to believe me”. But for Raoul Taburin, things are never that simple...
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Alain Souchon - Un jour, un destin (2022)
Character: Self
Alain Souchon has never been able to be as it should be and that has long saddened him. His failures in the baccalaureate and in the competitions to become a steward or postman opened up another path for him. Inspired by the music of Laurent Voulzy, he used the words that floated in his head and became the poet of life. This mixture of sweet melancholy and humor, his imagination and his sense of observation, this strong bond with the public have given him, in fifty years of career, a special place in the French musical landscape. It is his story and his repertoire filled with hits that his relatives, friends and musicians reveal here, including his sons Pierre and Charles, Laurent Voulzy, Michel Jonasz, Louis Chedid, Thierry Lhermitte, but also Jane Birkin, Vincent Delerm and Edward Baer.
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Dieu est grand, je suis toute petite (2001)
Character: François
Michèle, 20 years old, feels terrible after having broken up with her boy-friend. She meets Francois, who's a veterinarian and jewish. Michèle decides to convert into Judaism because she has to believe in something, if not in someone.
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Ouvert la nuit (2017)
Character: Luigi
One night to change everything. One night to save a theater, one night to change one's perspective about life. Luigi will push and pull Faeza with him everywhere around Paris an entire night to save his theater.
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Terror Firmer (1999)
Character: French Cool Cat
A low-budget film crew working in New York City find themselves being preyed upon by a sexually conflicted serial killer.
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Textiles (2001)
Character: Radio Voice (voice)
Michel is a funny boy, a kind of intellectual. With Pauline, a very beautiful girl he met on the beach, they are going to get naked and discuss surrealism, sincerely and without trickery. But who are they really?
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Les Herbes folles (2009)
Character: Narrateur
Marguerite loses her wallet, and it's found by Georges, a seemingly happy head of family. As he looks through the wallet and examines the photos of Marguerite, he finds he's fascinated with her and her life, and soon his curiosity about her becomes an obsession.
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בננות (2013)
Character: Édouard
A group of friends in a Tel Aviv suburb get together to watch Universong, a Eurovision-like television song contest. They gather to watch and are depressed by the lifelessness of the Israeli entry, a parody of many recent offerings, a flashy, grating song about "amour." Realizing that Anat is distraught over the crisis in her marriage, they decide to compose a song to cheer her up. As a lark, they enters their cellphone video of it in next year's contest, and it becomes Israel's entry.
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La bostella (2000)
Character: Edouard
Taking its title from a popular 1960s dance craze, this digital video comedy concerns the exploits of a particularly odd fictional talk-show host, portrayed by real-life French talk-show sensation Edouard Baer. Baer -- who also directed and co-wrote the film -- plays a sarcastic TV personality who decides to gather together the panel members from his live show before they shoot the program so that they have a chance to rehearse. To this end, the absurd group -- including a lawyer, a transvestite, and a grown woman who acts like a child -- rents a villa for a month. It doesn't take long for resentment to fester among the motley crew.
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Passe passe (2008)
Character: Darry Marzouki
A missed highway exit leads Darry Marzouki, an unemployed magician, to cross paths with Irène Montier Duval, a wealthy woman carrying a Hermès bag full of cash. Out of love, she acted as an intermediary in an arms deal between a French minister and Korea. When the deal was exposed, the minister tried to pin the blame on her. On the run, she offers to pay Darry to drive her to Geneva in his BMW. The problem? The BMW isn’t his—he impulsively stole it from his hot-tempered brother-in-law, who’s out for blood. Unable to accept Irène’s offer, Darry pretends to be an activist heading to a summit in Locarno. Irène, eager for a change, plays along. They have little in common but spend three unforgettable days together—while being chased by Koreans, French intelligence, a minister, and the furious brother-in-law. In the end, one finds love, the other freedom.
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La folie douce (1994)
Character: Edouard
Edouard gives pieces of advice on a radio station, but when he tries to use them in real life with his friends, his skills are dubious.
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Encore heureux (2016)
Character: Sam
Okay, Marie is a little tired of the insouciance of her husband Sam, framework sup unemployed for 2 years. Agree, it is very tempted to be seduced by this beautiful stranger who made him the Court. Okay, there is also the daughter piano competition... If this balance light and crazy about standing, an unexpected event throws the family on an even crazier way.
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Double zéro (2004)
Character: le Mâle
Ben and Bill are the two worst, completely useless agents - real losers. But who else would you send on a super-difficult top-secret mission? The French have just sold a new high-power M51 rocket to the Russians for crazy money. Unfortunately for them, the rocket was hijacked before they could get it of their hands. However, not just any fool is up to neutralizing this threat, but only the craziest and most stupid of them can cope with such a task.
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Tous toqués ! (2024)
Character: Victor
A French chef in search of fame tries to help the young Lili-Beth win a culinary competition. But to do so he must contend with the hostility of an entire village towards Sonia, the intransigent local customs officer.
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Poumon Vert et Tapis Rouge (2021)
Character: Self
To help Francis Hallé in his fight to save the last tropical forests, a documentary filmmaker with a passion for nature decides to make his first film: "The Botanist", an ecological thriller with Leonardo DiCaprio. He traces his path with malice, obstinacy, and discovers, with candor, the arcana of the seventh art. Even if he never gives up, will his film ever exist?
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Caméléone (1996)
Character: Art critic
After fatally shooting a stalker, Parisian bar-maid Lea must live the life of the title reptile. At the time of the killing she was living with Francis, a much older American ex-con. After committing the murder, the fleeing and frightened Lea is saved by Paris paper boys Jean and Luc. Later she tells her sad story to hard-drinking Moskowitz, a middle-aged cop who secretly desires her. His unrequited love leads to tragedy. Meanwhile, Lea continues living with Francis, but also shacks up with Luc while trying to avoid the jealous cop.
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Adieu Paris (2022)
Character: Édouard
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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La porte à côté (2014)
Character: Him
She is a psychiatrist. He sells yogurts. They are neighbors of level, they hate each other cordially, and like millions of singles lost in the city, they furtively explore the dating sites in search of love - someone who would be just at the antipodes of this infernal character who saw the door next to it. And when, at the end of the day, they find their soul mates, they do not resist the pleasure of announcing it. History of bowing again ... The last?
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La Lutte des classes (2019)
Character: Paul
As everyone knows, children make no difference between social classes, skin colors or religions. But then why does Corentin, Paul and Sofia's nine-year-old son, only have friends like him at Bagnolet's school? And when his friends all leave for a private school in Paris, his parents are frightened. From now on, Corentin is the only one in his class. But the only what?
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À boire (2004)
Character: Pierre-Marie Archambault
Three disparate people meet in a bizarre skiing accident: an alcoholic doctor who has just been left by his wife, a beautiful but directionless woman, and the bumbling Algerian man who caused the accident. They become fond of each other, and of liquor.
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