Léa Seydoux

Léa Seydoux

Born: July 1, 1985
in Passy, Paris, France
Léa Hélène Seydoux-Fornier de Clausonne (born July 1, 1985) is a French actor. She began her acting career in French cinema, appearing in films such as The Last Mistress (2007) and On War (2008). Seydoux first came to attention after she won the Trophée Chopard and received her first César Award nomination, for her performance in The Beautiful Person (2008).

In the years that followed, Seydoux began appearing in minor roles in high-profile Hollywood films, including Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds (2009), Ridley Scott's Robin Hood (2010), Woody Allen's Midnight in Paris (2011) and the action film Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol (2011). In French cinema during this period, she was nominated for the César Award for Most Promising Actress for a second time for her role in Belle Épine (2010) and was nominated for the César Award for Best Actress for her role as a lady-in-waiting to Marie Antoinette in the film Farewell, My Queen (2012).

Seydoux came to widespread attention in 2013 when she was awarded the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival for her role as a lesbian art student in the critically acclaimed film Blue Is the Warmest Colour, along with its film director Abdellatif Kechiche and her co-star Adèle Exarchopoulos. That same year, she also received the Lumières Award for Best Actress for the film Grand Central and, in 2014, she was nominated for the BAFTA Rising Star Award and starred in the films Beauty and the Beast, Wes Anderson's The Grand Budapest Hotel and Saint Laurent. She gained further international attention for her appearance as Bond girl Madeleine Swann in Spectre (2015), a role which she reprised in No Time to Die (2021). Since then, she has continued to appear in major English-speaking roles in The Lobster (2015), in Wes Anderson's The French Dispatch (2021), and in the Hideo Kojima video game Death Stranding (2019).

Movies for Léa Seydoux...

The Second Act
Title: The Second Act
Character: Florence
Released: May 14, 2024
Type: Movie
Florence wants to introduce David, the man she’s madly in love with, to her father Guillaume. But David isn’t attracted to Florence and wants to throw her into the arms of his friend Willy. The four characters meet in a restaurant in the middle of nowhere.
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Dune: Part Two
Title: Dune: Part Two
Character: Lady Margot Fenring
Released: February 27, 2024
Type: Movie
Follow the mythic journey of Paul Atreides as he unites with Chani and the Fremen while on a path of revenge against the conspirators who destroyed his family. Facing a choice between the love of his life and the fate of the known universe, Paul endeavors to prevent a terrible future only he can foresee.
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The Beast
Title: The Beast
Character: Gabrielle
Released: February 7, 2024
Type: Movie
In a near future where artificial intelligence reigns supreme, human emotions have become a threat. To get rid of them, Gabrielle must purify her DNA by going back into her past lives. There, she reunites with Louis, her great love. But she’s overcome by fear, a premonition that catastrophe is on the way.
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Hideo Kojima: Connecting Worlds
Title: Hideo Kojima: Connecting Worlds
Character: Self
Released: June 17, 2023
Type: Movie
A journey into the creative mind of the most iconic video game designer in the world. Featuring appearances from visionary artists Guillermo del Toro, Nicholas Winding Refn, Grimes, George Miller, Norman Reedus, Woodkid, Chvrches, this visually captivating documentary gives a rare insight into Hideo Kojima’s creative process as he launches his own independent studio.
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Cannes Uncut
Title: Cannes Uncut
Character: Self
Released: June 12, 2023
Type: Movie
A luminary-packed tribute that lifts the curtain on the Cannes Film Festival in its 75th year – for as they say in France, ‘the story of Cannes is the story of cinema’.
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Title: Beau geste
Character: Self
Released: January 22, 2023
Type: TV
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One Fine Morning
Title: One Fine Morning
Character: Sandra Kienzler
Released: October 5, 2022
Type: Movie
With a father suffering from neurodegenerative disease, a young woman lives with her eight-year-old daughter. While struggling to secure a decent nursing home, she runs into an unavailable friend with whom she embarks on an affair.
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Crimes of the Future
Title: Crimes of the Future
Character: Caprice
Released: May 25, 2022
Type: Movie
With his partner Caprice, celebrity performance artist Saul Tenser publicly showcases the metamorphosis of his organs in avant-garde performances. Timlin, an investigator from the National Organ Registry, obsessively tracks their movements, which is when a mysterious group is revealed... Their mission -- to use Saul's notoriety to shed light on the next phase of human evolution.
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Designing Bond
Title: Designing Bond
Character: Self
Released: December 20, 2021
Type: Movie
Production designer Mark Tildesley and costume designer Suttirat Anne Larlarb, along with cast and other filmmakers, discuss the inspiration, challenges and trials of conceiving and making the remarkable sets and costumes for the iconic Bond franchise.
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The French Dispatch
Title: The French Dispatch
Character: Simone
Released: October 21, 2021
Type: Movie
The staff of an American magazine based in France puts out its last issue, with stories featuring an artist sentenced to life imprisonment, student riots, and a kidnapping resolved by a chef.
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No Time to Die
Title: No Time to Die
Character: Dr. Madeleine Swann
Released: September 29, 2021
Type: Movie
Bond has left active service and is enjoying a tranquil life in Jamaica. His peace is short-lived when his old friend Felix Leiter from the CIA turns up asking for help. The mission to rescue a kidnapped scientist turns out to be far more treacherous than expected, leading Bond onto the trail of a mysterious villain armed with dangerous new technology.
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Being James Bond
Title: Being James Bond
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: August 29, 2021
Type: Movie
Daniel Craig candidly reflects on his 15 year adventure as James Bond. Including never-before-seen archival footage from Casino Royale to the upcoming 25th film No Time To Die, Craig shares his personal memories in conversation with 007 producers, Michael G Wilson and Barbara Broccoli.
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France
Title: France
Character: France de Meurs
Released: August 25, 2021
Type: Movie
A celebrity journalist, juggling her busy career and personal life, has her life over-turned by a freak car accident.
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The Story of My Wife
Title: The Story of My Wife
Character: Lizzy
Released: August 12, 2021
Type: Movie
A sea captain makes a bet in a cafe with a friend that he will marry the first woman who walks in.
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Deception
Title: Deception
Character: The English Lover
Released: July 17, 2021
Type: Movie
An American writer living in exile in London, Philip listens to women. His English mistress, who visits him regularly in the studio that serves as their refuge. A student he loved in another life. A former lover confined to a hospital in New York.
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QT8: The First Eight
Title: QT8: The First Eight
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: October 21, 2019
Type: Movie
A detailed account of the life and artistic career of legendary filmmaker Quentin Tarantino, from his early days as a video club manager to the scandalous fall in disgrace of producer Harvey Weinstein. A story about how to shoot eight great movies and become an icon of modern pop culture.
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Oh Mercy
Title: Oh Mercy
Character: Claude
Released: August 21, 2019
Type: Movie
A police chief in northern France tries to solve a case where an old woman was brutally murdered on Christmas Eve. However, in a neighborhood rife with crime, everyone seems to be a suspect.
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Kursk
Title: Kursk
Character: Tanya Averina
Released: November 7, 2018
Type: Movie
Barents Sea, August 12th, 2000. During a Russian naval exercise, and after suffering a serious accident, the K-141 Kursk submarine sinks with 118 crew members on board. While the few sailors who are still alive barely manage to survive, their families push for accurate information and a British officer struggles to obtain from the Russian government a permit to attempt a rescue before it is late. But general incompetence are against all their efforts.
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Zoe
Title: Zoe
Character: Zoe
Released: July 19, 2018
Type: Movie
Two colleagues at a revolutionary research lab design technology to improve and perfect romantic relationships. As their work progresses, their discoveries become more profound.
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It's Only the End of the World
Title: It's Only the End of the World
Character: Suzanne Knipper
Released: August 26, 2016
Type: Movie
Louis, a terminally ill writer, returns home after a long absence to tell his family that he is dying.
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Spectre
Title: Spectre
Character: Dr. Madeleine Swann
Released: October 26, 2015
Type: Movie
A cryptic message from Bond’s past sends him on a trail to uncover a sinister organization. While M battles political forces to keep the secret service alive, Bond peels back the layers of deceit to reveal the terrible truth behind SPECTRE.
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The Lobster
Title: The Lobster
Character: Loner Leader
Released: October 15, 2015
Type: Movie
In a dystopian near future, single people, according to the laws of The City, are taken to The Hotel, where they are obliged to find a romantic partner in forty-five days or are transformed into animals and sent off into The Woods.
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Diary of a Chambermaid
Title: Diary of a Chambermaid
Character: Célestine
Released: April 1, 2015
Type: Movie
In the late 19th century, a chambermaid from Paris relocates to a remote household in Provence, engages in trysts and finds herself enraptured with a coach driver.
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Saint Laurent
Title: Saint Laurent
Character: Loulou de la Falaise
Released: September 23, 2014
Type: Movie
1967-1976. As one of history's greatest fashion designers entered a decade of freedom, neither came out of it in one piece.
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The Grand Budapest Hotel
Title: The Grand Budapest Hotel
Character: Clotilde
Released: February 26, 2014
Type: Movie
The Grand Budapest Hotel tells of a legendary concierge at a famous European hotel between the wars and his friendship with a young employee who becomes his trusted protégé. The story involves the theft and recovery of a priceless Renaissance painting, the battle for an enormous family fortune and the slow and then sudden upheavals that transformed Europe during the first half of the 20th century.
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Title: The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Character: Self
Released: February 17, 2014
Type: TV
After Jay Leno's second retirement from the program, Jimmy Fallon stepped in as his permanent replacement. After 42 years in Los Angeles the program was brought back to New York.
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Beauty and the Beast
Title: Beauty and the Beast
Character: Belle
Released: February 12, 2014
Type: Movie
Forced to face the cruel side of life, a devastated, bankrupt merchant chances upon the enchanted castle of a hideous creature, the mere sight of it chills the bone to the marrow. There, a fate worse than death awaits the poor father-of-six, who, after plucking a sweet-scented rose from the repulsive master's verdant garden, must do the impossible: permit his compassionate daughter, Belle, to take his place and pay for the sins of her parent. Now, an impenetrable mystery shrouds the haunted mansion, and, as repugnance gradually turns into affection, only true love could break the spell.
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Blue Is the Warmest Color
Title: Blue Is the Warmest Color
Character: Emma
Released: October 9, 2013
Type: Movie
Adèle's life is changed when she meets Emma, a young woman with blue hair, who will allow her to discover desire, to assert herself as a woman and as an adult. In front of others, Adele grows, seeks herself, loses herself, finds herself.
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Grand Central
Title: Grand Central
Character: Karole
Released: August 28, 2013
Type: Movie
A young unemployed man finds work at a nuclear power plant and begins an illicit affair with the fiancée of one of his senior workmates.
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Sister
Title: Sister
Character: Louise
Released: April 4, 2012
Type: Movie
A drama set at a Swiss ski resort and centered on a boy who supports his sister by stealing from wealthy guests.
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Farewell, My Queen
Title: Farewell, My Queen
Character: Agathe-Sidonie Laborde
Released: March 21, 2012
Type: Movie
A look at the relationship between Marie Antoinette and one of her readers during the final days of the French Revolution.
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Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol
Title: Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol
Character: Sabine Moreau
Released: December 7, 2011
Type: Movie
Ethan Hunt and his team are racing against time to track down a dangerous terrorist named Hendricks, who has gained access to Russian nuclear launch codes and is planning a strike on the United States. An attempt to stop him ends in an explosion causing severe destruction to the Kremlin and the IMF to be implicated in the bombing, forcing the President to disavow them. No longer being aided by the government, Ethan and his team chase Hendricks around the globe, although they might still be too late to stop a disaster.
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Time Doesn't Stand Still
Title: Time Doesn't Stand Still
Character: Elle
Released: June 10, 2011
Type: Movie
Director Asa Mader collaborated with Benjamin Millepied (Black Swan star and New York City Ballet principal) for this film featuring Millepied and French actress Lea Séydoux with wardrobe by Ralph Lauren.
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Midnight in Paris
Title: Midnight in Paris
Character: Gabrielle
Released: May 11, 2011
Type: Movie
A romantic comedy about a family traveling to the French capital for business. The party includes a young engaged couple forced to confront the illusion that a life different from their own is better.
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Title: Mysteries of Lisbon
Character: Blanche de Montfort
Released: May 1, 2011
Type: TV
The tragic story of the many lives of Father Dinis, his dark origins and his pious works, and the different fates of all those who, trapped in a sinister web of love, hate and crime, cross paths with him through years of adventure and misfortune in the convulsed Europe of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. (A longer television version of the film of the same name, released in 2010.)
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My Wife's Romance
Title: My Wife's Romance
Character: Ève
Released: March 2, 2011
Type: Movie
When Paul dies, he leaves his wife Eve with a mountain of debt. As the police begin their investigation into Paul’s death, Eve is supported by a lawyer named Chollet, a friend of her husband who generously helps her to clear the debts she has inherited. Eve and Chollet become close, perhaps too close, and their intimacy soon begins to arouse the suspicions of the police..
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The Revelations 2011
Title: The Revelations 2011
Released: January 6, 2011
Type: Movie
Every year, the family of cinema is growing by welcoming a young and new generation of actresses and actors, who loudly declare their passion for film.
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Belle épine
Title: Belle épine
Character: Prudence Friedmann
Released: November 10, 2010
Type: Movie
After the death of her mother, 17-year-old Prudence finds herself living alone in her Paris apartment. Then she meets Maryline, a rebel of her own age, who introduces her to the thrills of motorcycle racing on the biker circuit at Rungis. Prudence’s newfound lease of freedom becomes complicated when she falls for a boy Franck who wastes no time in taking advantage of her naivety...
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Mysteries of Lisbon
Title: Mysteries of Lisbon
Character: Blanche de Montfort
Released: October 20, 2010
Type: Movie
The tragic story of the many lives of Father Dinis, his dark origins and his pious works, and the different fates of all those who, trapped in a sinister web of love, hate and crime, cross paths with him through years of adventure and misfortune in the convulsed Europe of the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
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Roses on Credit
Title: Roses on Credit
Character: Marjoline
Released: September 9, 2010
Type: Movie
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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Little Tailor
Title: Little Tailor
Character: Marie-Julie
Released: May 20, 2010
Type: Movie
There’s Evelyne who loves Albert, who loves Arthur, who loves the girl who plays the actress, who loves the man driving the convertible. There’s the night which only loves itself and death which only loves once. It would take more breath to kiss everyone and more time not to displease anyone.
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Robin Hood
Title: Robin Hood
Character: Isabella of Angoulême
Released: May 12, 2010
Type: Movie
When soldier Robin happens upon the dying Robert of Loxley, he promises to return the man's sword to his family in Nottingham. There, he assumes Robert's identity; romances his widow, Marion; and draws the ire of the town's sheriff and King John's henchman, Godfrey.
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Rose, c'est Paris
Title: Rose, c'est Paris
Character: self
Released: May 5, 2010
Type: Movie
Bettina Rheims and Serge Bramly's Rose, c'est Paris is both a photographic monograph and a feature-length film. This extraordinary work of art, in two different but interlocking and complementary formats, defies easy categorization. For in this multi-layered opus of poetic symbolism, photographer Bettina Rheims and writer Serge Bramly evoke the City of Light in a completely novel way: this is a Paris of surrealist visions, confused identities, artistic phantoms, unseen manipulation, obsession, fetish, and seething desire.
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Traceless
Title: Traceless
Character: Fleur
Released: March 10, 2010
Type: Movie
Étienne Meunier (Benoît Magimel) is a young executive who has everything going for him. His career is skyrocketing and he is about to become #1 at work, he is married to a picture-perfect wife, has a dream home and money. To top it off, he's charming, healthy and everyone likes him and seems to consider him "a great guy". But beneath the surface, not everything is perfect. Meunier feels some pressure at work, knowing others eye his future position and he and his wife have been unable to have children so far. One day, Meunier bumps into a childhood friend, Patrick Chambon (François-Xavier Demaison) and the two resume their friendship, despite Chambon having struggled as a petty criminal.
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Plein sud
Title: Plein sud
Character: Léa
Released: December 30, 2009
Type: Movie
In the summer, 27 year-old Sam drives towards the south of France in his Ford. He meets Matthieu and his sister Léa and takes them along in his apparently aimless journey. Matthieu has a crush on Sam and tries to seduce him. Léa is a beautiful, young, provocative girl who likes men so much that she got pregnant. She soon brings along Jérémie with them. Throughout the trip, they learn to know, fight and love each other. In spite of a blooming relationship with Matthieu, Sam isolates himself because of his secret: he is headed for Spain to find his long-lost mother.
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Lourdes
Title: Lourdes
Character: Maria
Released: September 11, 2009
Type: Movie
In order to escape her isolation, wheelchair-bound Christine makes a life changing journey to Lourdes, the iconic site of pilgrimage in the Pyrenees Mountains.
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Inglourious Basterds
Title: Inglourious Basterds
Character: Charlotte LaPadite
Released: August 2, 2009
Type: Movie
In Nazi-occupied France during World War II, a group of Jewish-American soldiers known as "The Basterds" are chosen specifically to spread fear throughout the Third Reich by scalping and brutally killing Nazis. The Basterds, lead by Lt. Aldo Raine soon cross paths with a French-Jewish teenage girl who runs a movie theater in Paris which is targeted by the soldiers.
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The Illusions
Title: The Illusions
Character: La fille du métro
Released: February 4, 2009
Type: Movie
A popular young writer decides to write a novel on an island that was once a Mecca to the Hippie movement of the 1960s. As he tries to recapture a world that no longer exists, the writer meets an enigmatic young woman who agrees to help him in his research. But as he falls in love with this strange girl, he finds her increasingly remote and mysterious, until she finally seems to disappear for good...
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The Revelations 2009
Title: The Revelations 2009
Released: January 7, 2009
Type: Movie
Every year, the family of cinema is growing by welcoming a young and new generation of actresses and actors, who loudly declare their passion for film.
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On War
Title: On War
Character: Marie
Released: October 1, 2008
Type: Movie
After a freak accident changes his perspective on life, a Parisian filmmaker meets a stranger who brings him to a commune that's populated by free-spirited women.
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The Beautiful Person
Title: The Beautiful Person
Character: Junie
Released: September 17, 2008
Type: Movie
In the wake of her mother's tragic death, French teenager Junie transfers to a different high school. Though Junie lives mostly inside her own head, her beauty and stoicism win her the attention of the entire male student population. Junie begins dating the gentle Otto Cleves, but finds herself intensely drawn to her youthful Italian language teacher, Nemours. When Nemours begins to reciprocate, serious complications ensue.
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Dolls and Angels
Title: Dolls and Angels
Character: Gisèle
Released: June 25, 2008
Type: Movie
The father of a family of North African immigrants living on a Paris housing estate finds it hard to impose his will on his two teenage daughters. Lya, 17, and Chirine, 18, respond to their father’s bouts of violence by rebelling in the same way as most French adolescents. When Chirine is offered work as a model, she jumps at the chance, but soon realizes she may be about to fall into the prostitution racket...
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Les vacances de Clémence
Title: Les vacances de Clémence
Character: Jackie
Released: May 13, 2008
Type: Movie
In Saint-Nazaire in 1967, a hotbed of workers' struggles, Clémence, 26, is married to a young worker, Gérard. Like many women of her generation, she does not work and takes care of her two children. But she longs for a different life while Gérard confuses the happiness of his family with the acquisition of household appliances. Trained by an old friend, Agnès, in family planning meetings, Clémence will meet a young philosophy teacher, Jérôme. For him, she will abandon her husband and her children, and try to live the utopia of a life of total freedom. Blinded by his pain, a stranger to his wife's questioning, Gérard will have to become aware of the upheavals that will overwhelm society a few months later. Life will never be the same again.
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13 French Street
Title: 13 French Street
Character: Jenny
Released: November 28, 2007
Type: Movie
A neo-noir tale of a man who seeks out an old friend, only to succumb to the will of a beautiful, mysterious woman.
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The Last Mistress
Title: The Last Mistress
Character: Olivia
Released: May 30, 2007
Type: Movie
Secrets, rumors and betrayals surround the upcoming marriage between a young dissolute man and virtuous woman of the French aristocracy.
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Title: The Graham Norton Show
Character: Self
Released: February 22, 2007
Type: TV
Each week celebrity guests join Irish comedian Graham Norton to discuss what's being going on around the world that week. The guests poke fun and share their opinions on the main news stories. Graham is often joined by a band or artist to play the show out.
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My Friends
Title: My Friends
Character: Aurore
Released: June 21, 2006
Type: Movie
Manon, Aurore and Marie would like to represent their school at the Youth Challenge “Dance Special” organized by Paris’s city hall. If they win, they could have a month’s vacation in a country of their dreams, free from all constraints.
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Title: Père et Maire
Character: La lycéenne
Released: February 25, 2002
Type: TV
One is a priest, the other is the mayor of the city! It's not always easy for Erwan and Hugo to get along, especially for brothers-in-law. For the sake of their small town, they manage to cope with the problems.
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Untitled Arthur Harari Film
Title: Untitled Arthur Harari Film
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
Plot details unknown.
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The Thing That Hurts
Title: The Thing That Hurts
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
The patients of a recently deceased American psychotherapist remember her.
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Silent Friend
Title: Silent Friend
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
It is set in the botanical garden of Marburg, a medieval university town in Germany, and tells three stories connected to a tree over a period of more than 100 years.
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Separate Rooms
Title: Separate Rooms
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
Fleeing from the image of his boyfriend who recently committed suicide, Leo arrives in England in order to descend into anonymity. Yet even here his mind continually turns to the reality of his lover’s death and their experiences together.