Jimmy Jean-Louis

Jimmy Jean-Louis

Born: August 8, 1968
in Pétionville - Haiti
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Jimmy Jean-Louis (born August 8, 1968) is a Haitian actor and model best known for his role as The Haitian on the NBC television series Heroes. Born in Petionville, Haiti, he moved to Paris at a young age to pursue a modeling career. His early roles were in French musical theatre and television commercials. Eventually settling in Los Angeles in the late 1990s, he had small parts in The Bourne Identity and Arliss before breaking into larger parts in American television and film.

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The Goat Life
Title: The Goat Life
Character: Ibrahim
Released: March 28, 2024
Type: Movie
The real-life incident of an Indian migrant worker, Najeeb Muhammad, who goes to Saudi Arabia to earn money. However, in a twist of fate, he finds himself living a slave-like existence, herding goats in the middle of the desert.
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Jagged Mind
Title: Jagged Mind
Character: Papa Juste
Released: June 14, 2023
Type: Movie
When Billie finds herself reliving different versions of the same first date, she must break out of a series of loops created by her manipulative ex-girlfriend.
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Assassin Club
Title: Assassin Club
Character: Inspector Leon
Released: February 24, 2023
Type: Movie
In this world of contract killers, Morgan Gaines is the best of the best. When Morgan is hired to kill six people around the world, he soon discovers all the targets are also assassins unknowingly hired to kill each other.
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Detective Knight: Independence
Title: Detective Knight: Independence
Character: Det.Godwin Sango
Released: January 20, 2023
Type: Movie
Detective James Knight 's last-minute assignment to the Independence Day shift turns into a race to stop an unbalanced ambulance EMT from imperiling the city's festivities. The misguided vigilante, playing cop with a stolen gun and uniform, has a bank vault full of reasons to put on his own fireworks show... one that will strike dangerously close to Knight's home.
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Detective Knight: Rogue
Title: Detective Knight: Rogue
Character: Det.Godwin Sango
Released: October 21, 2022
Type: Movie
As Los Angeles prepares for Halloween, mask-wearing armed robbers critically wound detective James Knight’s partner in a shootout following a heist. With Knight in hot pursuit, the bandits flee L.A. for New York, where the detective’s dark past collides with his present case and threatens to tear his world apart…unless redemption can claim Knight first.
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The Gray Man
Title: The Gray Man
Character: Alex Dumas
Released: July 13, 2022
Type: Movie
When a shadowy CIA agent uncovers damning agency secrets, he's hunted across the globe by a sociopathic rogue operative who's put a bounty on his head.
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Title: Pam & Tommy
Character: Officer Jarvis
Released: February 2, 2022
Type: TV
This comedic series takes on the true story behind the release of the first ever viral video in history — the sex tape of Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee.
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Citation
Title: Citation
Character: Prof. Lucien N'Dyare
Released: November 5, 2020
Type: Movie
A bright student in Nigeria takes on the academic establishment when she reports a popular professor who tried to rape her. Based on real events.
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Jungle Jihad
Title: Jungle Jihad
Character: The negotiator
Released: June 17, 2020
Type: Movie
A cab driver takes a customer to the destination he indicates. During this journey, we discover through their conversation that the driver is an undercover policeman who lost his wife and daughter to a bombing, and that the customer is an extremist who is preparing to commit an attack... Both Muslims exchange views on the implications of their faith for the society around them... As tension mounts...
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Code_Switch
Title: Code_Switch
Character: Rodney Oliver
Released: December 13, 2019
Type: Movie
After tragedy strikes, a meek Ruby Oliver enters a broken VR game for a last chance to see the dead. Little does she know that this game treats all girls as a virus as she fights to save herself.
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Title: Deadly Tropics
Character: Clément Galpin
Released: November 22, 2019
Type: TV
On the Caribbean island of Martinique, in the middle of the tropics, several mysterious murders occur. Now it is up to the two investigators Mélissa Sainte-Rose and Gaëlle Crivelli to solve the case - even if the two women have very different views of law.
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Cargo
Title: Cargo
Released: May 10, 2019
Type: Movie
A Bahamian Fisherman with a gambling addiction in Nassau takes a job smuggling Haitians to Florida in a desperate ploy to support his family.
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Rattlesnakes
Title: Rattlesnakes
Character: Robert McQueen
Released: April 26, 2019
Type: Movie
Robert McQueen's day takes a turn for the worst when he is held hostage and accused by three vengeful husbands of sleeping with their wives.
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Desrances
Title: Desrances
Character: Francis Desrances
Released: February 23, 2019
Type: Movie
After the brutal massacre of his family in Haiti, Francis Desrances resettles in the Ivory Coast. Years later Francis, his wife Aissey and 12-year-old daughter Haila await the birth of a son, who to Francis' excitement and Haila's irritation is immediately regarded as the worthy heir to the Desrances name. As the birth looms, civil war erupts in Abidjan and amidst the melee Aissey goes missing. Haila courageously steps forward in ways that challenge her father's notion of what constitutes a rightful heir. Cementing her status as a bold voice in contemporary filmmaking, Apolline Traoré's domestic drama escalates into an intense thriller that mounts a passionate challenge to commonly-held gender roles, whilst also highlighting the human cost of civil strife.
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The Outer Wild
Title: The Outer Wild
Character: Ramson
Released: September 28, 2018
Type: Movie
After an unnatural event leaves mankind nearly extinct, a runaway girl and a rogue bounty hunter brave a dangerous wilderness to find a fabled sanctuary that can either save or destroy what's left of humanity.
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Title: La route de la soif
Character: Self
Released: January 23, 2018
Type: TV
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Title: SMILF
Character: Henri
Released: November 5, 2017
Type: TV
A raw and honest comedic look at a single, 20-something from Southie whose desires for relationships, sex, and a career collide with the realities of young, single motherhood.
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Catastrópico
Title: Catastrópico
Character: Damien
Released: August 11, 2017
Type: Movie
A spoiled Hollywood actress struggles back to civilization after the crash of her private jet botches a kidnap attempt, leaving her stranded in the jungle with her irritating assistant and her inept hijacker pilot.
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Title: Just One Look
Character: Eric Toussaint
Released: June 15, 2017
Type: TV
What if your whole life was just a lie? If the man you married fifteen years ago wasn't who you thought he was? For Eva Beaufils, it took just one look at an old photo to turn her whole world upside down. Suddenly, her husband Bastien disappears. Eva has only one thing left in mind: find him at all costs. Even if it reawakens old wounds and puts their children at risk, Eva knows that this is the only search that can give her the answer... Can love overcome distrust?
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The Empty Box
Title: The Empty Box
Character: Toussaint
Released: March 29, 2017
Type: Movie
Jazmín, a young woman living in Mexico City, is nonplussed when she receives a call informing her that her father Toussaint, an illegal Haitian immigrant, is ill. She hasn't seen him in years, and does not know why they are calling her. When she finally gets to the hospital and discovers that her father is suffering from vascular dementia, she finds herself faced with the task of caring for a man who is more a stranger than a father to her.
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Everything But a Man
Title: Everything But a Man
Character: Max
Released: June 15, 2016
Type: Movie
Comedic, dramatic and sexual tensions collide when a man and a woman from two different worlds meet, fall in love, and then discover they have totally opposite beliefs and ideas about life, love and what it takes to be happy.
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The CEO
Title: The CEO
Character: Jean-Marc
Released: May 4, 2016
Type: Movie
Five top level staff of a company are selected for a retreat where the new CEO of a global company will be chosen. What starts off as cordial soon goes sour as they attempt to outdo one another to be named The CEO.
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Joy
Title: Joy
Character: Toussaint
Released: December 24, 2015
Type: Movie
A story based on the life of a struggling Long Island single mom who became one of the country's most successful entrepreneurs.
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The Cursed Ones
Title: The Cursed Ones
Character: Paladin
Released: November 6, 2015
Type: Movie
The Cursed Ones tells the story of a disillusioned reporter and an idealistic young pastor, who fight to free a girl accused of witchcraft from the clutches of a system of corruption and superstition in the heart of West Africa.
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Title: Heroes Reborn
Character: The Haitian
Released: September 24, 2015
Type: TV
The supernatural phenomenon begins again with a fresh crop of inspiring heroes who take on the ultimate struggle between those with extraordinary abilities and those with nefarious motives to hunt and harness their powers. Epic adventures await these newly empowered allies as they cross paths with some of the original characters, unlocking the mysterious fate of the universe and their place within it.
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Jimmy Goes to Nollywood
Title: Jimmy Goes to Nollywood
Character: Himself
Released: February 6, 2015
Type: Movie
Actor Jimmy Jean-Louis offers a tour of the raucous and fast-growing Nigerian film scene as he arrives to host the Africa Movie Academy Awards.
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Yefon
Title: Yefon
Character: President Jean Pierre
Released: January 16, 2015
Type: Movie
An illiterate village girl defies the customs of her tribe, discriminatory to women, only to become the spark of a Literary Revolution.
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Title: Extant
Character: Pierre Lyon
Released: July 9, 2014
Type: TV
An astronaut returns home from a year long solo mission in space. She tries to reconnect with her husband and son in their everyday life. Her experiences in space and home lead to events that ultimately will change the course of human history.
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One Night in Vegas
Title: One Night in Vegas
Character: Nick
Released: December 20, 2013
Type: Movie
James and Genie an estranged couple must go all the way to Vegas to rekindle a lost sparkle in their relationship, only to find out what happens in Vegas, doesn't always stay in Vegas
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Miserere
Title: Miserere
Character: Puyferrat
Released: June 26, 2013
Type: Movie
Paris, December. A conductor of a choir is found mysteriously murdered, with burst eardrums. Lionel Kasdan, a police inspertor the verge of retirement, and Frank Salek, an official of Interpol, embark together on a hunt for the killer, and also to a secret organization specializing in kidnapping children.
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Five Thirteen
Title: Five Thirteen
Character: JJL
Released: June 11, 2013
Type: Movie
In this tension-packed thriller, brothers Mike and Tre set out in search of better lives, trying to leave their demons behind for good. After being released from prison for a crime he didn't commit, Mike's only care in the world is to protect his young daughter from an unforgiving ex. But the justice that awaits him on the streets is far worse than anything Mike had experienced in prison. His older brother Tre begrudgingly agrees to one last "delivery", attempting to free Mike and his new girlfriend from the grips of the criminal underworld. What transpires is a wild misadventure where multiple lives unknowingly intersect, and where decisions are made that will haunt everyone forever
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Doctor Bello
Title: Doctor Bello
Character: Doctor Bello
Released: February 22, 2013
Type: Movie
Cancer specialist Dr. Michael Durant forms an unlikely bond with seven year old Sam and becomes desperate, willing to risk anything to save the child’s life. A surreptitious Nigerian Nurse convinces him to seek the help of Dr. Bello, an uncertified Nigerian Doctor, known in the Brooklyn-African underground as a miracle worker.
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Title: Metal Hurlant Chronicles
Character: Norman
Released: October 27, 2012
Type: TV
Metal Hurlant Chronicles is inspired by the popular comics anthology Métal Hurlant, which in turn inspired the well known fantasy magazine Heavy Metal. Each episode takes place on a different planet - fantastical in its own way - with the common thread between stories being a traveling asteroid that impacts the lives of all it encounters.
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Title: Arrow
Character: The Captain
Released: October 10, 2012
Type: TV
Spoiled billionaire playboy Oliver Queen is missing and presumed dead when his yacht is lost at sea. He returns five years later a changed man, determined to clean up the city as a hooded vigilante armed with a bow.
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Toussaint Louverture
Title: Toussaint Louverture
Character: Toussaint Louverture
Released: February 14, 2012
Type: Movie
Toussaint opposes the Spanish army and joins the French troops. On Saint-Domingue he succeeds to push the English back. He proclames himself as the gouvernor of Saint-Domingue. To restore the economy he takes a bold descision. He calls for the workers to return to the plantages...
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Title: Toussaint Louverture
Character: Toussaint Louverture
Released: February 14, 2012
Type: TV
Toussaint opposes the Spanish army and joins the French troops. On Saint-Domingue he succeeds to push the English back. He proclames himself as the gouvernor of Saint-Domingue. To restore the economy he takes a bold descision. He calls for the workers to return to the plantages...
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A Butterfly Kiss
Title: A Butterfly Kiss
Released: June 1, 2011
Type: Movie
Billie and Louis have the good fortune of loving each other passionately and of having a family. But then one day terrible news turns their existence and that of their friends' upside down. Marie, a famous actress who is Billie's friend and confidant, redoubles her determination to give life, while Alice, her nurse, fighting for freedom, maintains that life 'is here and now and in the moment.' A film about love, hope, and the conviction that the force of life, despite the toughest tests, will always gain the upper hand.
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Sinking Sands
Title: Sinking Sands
Character: Jimah Sanson
Released: January 19, 2011
Type: Movie
The story of a couple, Jimah and Pabi, whose marriage turns into violence and abuse when Jimah becomes disfigured in a domestic accident.
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Relentless
Title: Relentless
Character: Candidate
Released: October 13, 2010
Type: Movie
Relentless tells the story of Obi (Gideon Okeke), a Nigerian peacekeeping soldier who has been deployed to war-torn Sierra Leone. Obi's world is crushed after Blessing, a Sierra Leonean woman whom Obi loves, is mutilated by a gang of child soldiers and he's forced to kill her in order to put her out of pain and misery. He eventually returns to Lagos after the war, and tries to reintegrate himself into his community; in the process, he finds solace in the arms of a prostitute, Honey (Nneka Egbuna) who may help him forget his haunting past and lead him to self-discovery.
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The Penthouse
Title: The Penthouse
Character: Buzz McManus
Released: March 2, 2010
Type: Movie
Girl trouble starts when a man and two good buddies becomes roommates.
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Paris Express
Title: Paris Express
Character: Steve Loki
Released: February 24, 2010
Type: Movie
From multicultural Paris to designer Paris, Montmartre to the Champs-Elysées, sleazy sidewalks to high-end galleries... Watch out! Sam the courier is a man on a mission! On his scooter, Sam breaks every rule of the road to make good on the "express delivery" promise of the courier service he works for. But however hard he tries, Sam never gets a bonus from his boss, never beats his slicker colleagues and never gets past his Dad, a cop who books him every time. All Sam has up is Nadia, and she will turn on him if he doesn't show up for her sister's wedding. Trouble is, Sam has one more delivery to make and his day has just gone from bad to worse...
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I Sing of a Well
Title: I Sing of a Well
Released: October 31, 2009
Type: Movie
A period drama set in the time of Mansa Musa, ruler of the Mali Empire in the early 1300s, and against the backdrop of the intra-African slave trade. The prince of a small kingdom makes potentially fatal decisions by stealing a poor man's bride-to-be and by forming an alliance with Mansa Musa, whose intentions may serve his own interests, but not those of the prince and his people
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Moloch Tropical
Title: Moloch Tropical
Character: Francis
Released: September 12, 2009
Type: Movie
In a fortress on a hill in Haiti a democratically elected president prepares himself for a state ceremony. On the day of the festivities the president finds his country in turmoil. The whole nation is in the grips of a riot that has broken out overnight. But nothing should stop the president’s ceremony.
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Orpailleur
Title: Orpailleur
Character: Myrtho
Released: March 12, 2009
Type: Movie
18 ans après avoir quitté sa terre natale, Rod, jeune Parisien d´origine guyanaise, rentre au pays suite à la disparition de son frère aîné. Gonz, son ami d´enfance des cités, fait partie du voyage. À Cayenne, la révélation d´un douloureux secret de famille pousse Rod dans une quête effrénée de vérité. Il fait la connaissance de Yann, une jeune guide de tourisme écologique très remontée contre les méfaits de l’orpaillage clandestin. Tous les trois seront dès lors pris dans un engrenage, entraînés au bout fleuve, au coeur de la forêt amazonienne, dans le milieu hostile et archaïque des orpailleurs clandestins...
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Diary of a Tired Black Man
Title: Diary of a Tired Black Man
Character: James
Released: January 1, 2009
Type: Movie
Diary of a Tired Black Man is a simple story about the complex relationships between black men and black women.
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Loaded
Title: Loaded
Character: Antonio
Released: March 25, 2008
Type: Movie
A young, wealthy club kid's life spirals downward into an out-of-control world of drugs, sex and violence.
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Adventures of Power
Title: Adventures of Power
Character: Aubelin
Released: January 20, 2008
Type: Movie
In his quest to become the world's greatest air-drummer, a small-town dreamer must overcome obstacles and ridicule to save the day.
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Title: Heroes
Character: The Haitian
Released: September 25, 2006
Type: TV
Common people discover that they have super powers. Their lives intertwine as a devastating event must be prevented.
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Cousines
Title: Cousines
Character: Ralph
Released: June 6, 2006
Type: Movie
Jessica is a young Haitian girl. Newly orphaned in Port-au-Prince, she finds herself at her "cousin" Johanne's. Johanne is a girl without resources who survives on the kindness of her many lovers. Will Jessica be able to resist the temptation to do the same? Will she resist the sincere love of the young Bobby, the sex appeal of the dangerous Ralph or the sexual appetite of the millionaire Félix?
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Phat Girlz
Title: Phat Girlz
Character: Dr. Tunde Jonathan
Released: April 7, 2006
Type: Movie
Two large women struggle to find love and acceptance in a culture where thin is in. Their lives take a dramatic turn when they meet the men of their dreams in completely unexpected ways.
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Monster-in-Law
Title: Monster-in-Law
Character: Prince Amir
Released: May 13, 2005
Type: Movie
Office temp Charlotte Cantilini thinks she's found Mr. Right when she starts dating gorgeous surgeon Dr. Kevin Fields. But there's a problem standing in the way of everlasting bliss: Kevin's overbearing and controlling mother, Viola. Fearing she'll lose her son's affections forever, Viola decides to break up the happy couple by becoming the world's worst mother-in-law.
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The Game of Their Lives
Title: The Game of Their Lives
Character: Joe Gaetjens
Released: April 22, 2005
Type: Movie
Based on a true story, this film tells the tale of the 1950 US soccer team who, against all odds, beat England 1 - 0 in the city of Belo Horizonte, Brazil. Although no US team has yet won a World Cup title, this story is about the family traditions and passions which shaped the lives of the players who made up this team of underdogs.
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Age of Kali
Title: Age of Kali
Character: Ferdinand
Released: January 1, 2005
Type: Movie
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Tears of the Sun
Title: Tears of the Sun
Character: Gideon
Released: March 7, 2003
Type: Movie
Navy SEAL Lieutenant A.K. Waters and his elite squadron of tactical specialists are forced to choose between their duty and their humanity, between following orders by ignoring the conflict that surrounds them, or finding the courage to follow their conscience and protect a group of innocent refugees. When the democratic government of Nigeria collapses and the country is taken over by a ruthless military dictator, Waters, a fiercely loyal and hardened veteran is dispatched on a routine mission to retrieve a Doctors Without Borders physician.
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Title: Fastlane
Character: Haitian #1
Released: September 18, 2002
Type: TV
Fastlane is an American action/crime drama series that was broadcast on Fox from September 18, 2002 to April 25, 2003.
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Derailed
Title: Derailed
Character: Henry
Released: May 19, 2002
Type: Movie
NATO operative Jacques Kristoff (Jean-Claude Van Damme) is summoned into action—on his birthday, no less—to track down Galina Konstantin (Laura Harring), who has stolen an extremely valuable and dangerous top-secret container from the Slovakian Government. Finding Galina doesn't take long, and Jacques must wrap up the mission by returning Galina and the contraband to his superiors by train. Things seem to be going smoothly as Jacques and Galina board the train posing as a couple, but soon all hell breaks loose.
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Title: The Shield
Character: Ididsa Okoye
Released: March 12, 2002
Type: TV
The story of an inner-city Los Angeles police precinct where some of the cops aren't above breaking the rules or working against their associates to both keep the streets safe and their self-interests intact.
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Title: The District
Character: Jean-Paul Bertrand
Released: October 7, 2000
Type: TV
The District is a television police drama which aired on CBS from October 7, 2000 to May 1, 2004. The show followed the work and personal life of the chief of Washington, D.C.'s Police Department.
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Un coq sur un escalier de secours
Title: Un coq sur un escalier de secours
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie