Aïssa Maïga

Aïssa Maïga

Born: May 25, 1975
in Dakar, Sénégal
Aïssa Maïga is a Senegal-born French actress, director, writer, producer, and activist. Maïga has worked with major auteurs like Michael Haneke, Abderrahmane Sissako and Michel Gondry, and recently starred in Chiwetel Ejiofor’s directorial debut.

Movies for Aïssa Maïga...

Big Kids
Title: Big Kids
Character: Aude
Released: April 26, 2023
Type: Movie
Yannick is a caregiver in a retirement home. Between permanent pressure and budget restrictions, he faces the lack of means with a contagious good mood. But when he is forced to share the dining room with a class of children, the situation becomes complicated. Their arrival, as well as that of his hostess, Aude, will shake up the daily life of everyone, especially the residents.
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Le Marchand de sable
Title: Le Marchand de sable
Character: Félicité
Released: February 15, 2023
Type: Movie
Marked by years of prison, Djo, a parcel delivery man in the Paris suburbs, lives modestly with his mother and daughter. One day, an aunt who has just fled the Ivorian conflict arrives at their home with her three children. In a hurry, Djo manages to find them a place to live. But faced with the growing demand and with the prospect of offering a decent life to his daughter, Djo switches and becomes a sleep merchant.
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Neneh Superstar
Title: Neneh Superstar
Character: Martine
Released: January 25, 2023
Type: Movie
Born to dance, Neneh is a 12-year-old black girl who dreams of entering the Paris Opera Ballet School. Despite her enthusiasm, she will have to redouble her efforts to escape from her condition and be accepted by the director of the school, Marianne Bellage, the guarantor of traditions and the bearer of a secret that links her to the little ballerina.
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Title: Cherchez la femme !
Character: (voice)
Released: December 5, 2022
Type: TV
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The Black Pharaoh, the Savage and the Princess
Title: The Black Pharaoh, the Savage and the Princess
Character: La conteuse (voice)
Released: October 19, 2022
Type: Movie
Three tales, three ages, three worlds. At the time of Ancient Egypt, a young king becomes the first black pharaoh to deserve the hand of his loved one. During the French Middle Ages, a mysterious wild boy steals from the rich to give to the poor. In 18th-century Turkey, a prince of pastries and a princess of roses escape the palace to live their love.
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Maria Schneider, 1983
Title: Maria Schneider, 1983
Character: Maria Schneider
Released: May 26, 2022
Type: Movie
In 1983, French actress Maria Schneider gives an interview for the TV show Cinéma Cinémas. The conversation takes an unexpected turn when she challenges film industry practices and is asked to talk about the controversial film Last Tango in Paris (1972).
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Title: The Fear Index
Character: Marieme Sagnane
Released: February 10, 2022
Type: TV
Dr. Alex Hoffman, an American ex-pat physicist, creates an AI-driven system that exploits fear in the financial markets and operates at lightning speed to make big returns. But on the day of launch, Alex’s sanity is shaken after he is viciously attacked at his home by a man who knows all of his security codes. After more unexplained occurrences, Alex becomes convinced he’s being framed.
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Title: Exterminate All the Brutes
Released: April 7, 2021
Type: TV
Hybrid docuseries offering an expansive exploration of the exploitative and genocidal aspects of European colonialism, from America to Africa, and its impact on society today.
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Title: Neuf Meufs
Character: Sylvia
Released: February 15, 2021
Type: TV
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Pop féminisme : des militantes aux icônes pop
Title: Pop féminisme : des militantes aux icônes pop
Character: Narrator
Released: November 6, 2020
Type: Movie
An overview of 21st-century feminism through the lens of pop culture.
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Title: Piquantes !
Character: Self - Guest
Released: October 16, 2020
Type: TV
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Neuf meufs - Le film
Title: Neuf meufs - Le film
Character: Sylvia
Released: October 7, 2020
Type: Movie
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Above the Sky
Title: Above the Sky
Character: Marion
Released: October 4, 2020
Type: Movie
After losing the use of her legs in an plane crash at 18, Dorine earns her pilot's license and dedicates herself to advocating for disability rights.
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Où sont les noirs ?
Title: Où sont les noirs ?
Character: Self
Released: March 18, 2020
Type: Movie
French actors Lucien Jean-Baptiste, Aïssa Maïga, Sonia Rolland, Deborah Lukumuena, Marie-France Malonga, Gary Dourdan and others speak up on the reality of black actors in the French movie industry.
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Title: He Even Has Your Eyes
Character: Salimata Aloka
Released: February 12, 2020
Type: TV
When Sali and Paul Aloka, a Black couple, adopted Benjamin, their white son, they knew they were heading into unchartered territory, right until the day Benjamin announces he wants to meet his birth parents.
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Pygmalionnes
Title: Pygmalionnes
Character: Self - Actrice
Released: January 22, 2020
Type: Movie
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Brother
Title: Brother
Character: Claude
Released: July 31, 2019
Type: Movie
Because he wanted to protect his little brother, Teddy, a young man without a history, is accused of the murder of his father and sent to a closed educational center, waiting for his trial for parricide. He then plunges into a brutal universe of which he does not know the rules.
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The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind
Title: The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind
Character: Agnes Kamkwamba
Released: February 14, 2019
Type: Movie
Against all the odds, a thirteen year old boy in Malawi invents an unconventional way to save his family and village from famine.
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The Tower
Title: The Tower
Character: Tante Hannan (voice)
Released: November 30, 2018
Type: Movie
Eleven-year-old Wardi’s great-grandfather leaves behind a will suggesting looking to the past to find the future. Searching the house, Wardi finds out about her Palestinian homeland from family memories.
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Title: Taken Down
Character: Abeni Bankole
Released: November 4, 2018
Type: TV
Taken Down is a crime drama series set in Dublin. The first series investigates the violent death of a young Nigerian migrant found abandoned close to a Direct Provision Centre, where refugees await the hope of asylum. The investigation brings us into a twilight world of the new Ireland where slum landlords and criminals prey on the vulnerable.
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Title: Le rêve français
Character: Doris Trésor
Released: March 21, 2018
Type: TV
In the 60s, the Government encourages Islanders to leave the French West Indies to escape poverty that results from the closure of sugar mills. Lured by the idea of a "dream country", they find life in Europe is not what they had imagined.
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Corniche Kennedy
Title: Corniche Kennedy
Character: Awa
Released: January 18, 2017
Type: Movie
Corniche Kennedy. In the blue of the Mediterranean, at the foot of luxurious villas, the young kids of Marseille defy the laws of gravity. Marco, Mehdi, Franck, Mélissa, Hamza, Mamaa, Julie : girls and boys dive, take flight, take risks to experience life to the fullest. Suzanne devours them with her eyes from inside her chic villa. Their free bodies, their excess. She wants to be part of them. She will be part of them.
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He Even Has Your Eyes
Title: He Even Has Your Eyes
Character: Salimata 'Sali' Aloka
Released: January 18, 2017
Type: Movie
Paul is married to Sali. Everything would be fine if they could get a child. Until the day when Sali receives the call that they have been waiting for so long: their adoption file is approved. He is adorable, he is 6 months old, his name is Benjamin. He is blond with blue eyes and white. They - are black.
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Love Is Dead
Title: Love Is Dead
Character: Léane Marciano, conseillère conjugale
Released: November 23, 2016
Type: Movie
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The African Doctor
Title: The African Doctor
Character: Anne Zantoko
Released: June 8, 2016
Type: Movie
1975. When Seyolo Zantoko, a doctor from the Congo who has managed, along with his family, to flee tyranny, is hired by the mayor of a small town in northern France, he begins a struggle to adapt to a new life and gain the trust of the prejudiced villagers.
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The Eiffel Tower Mystery
Title: The Eiffel Tower Mystery
Character: Henriette
Released: April 19, 2016
Type: Movie
The daughter of one of the architects who built the Eiffel Tower gets framed for a murder that has taken place there, so she and her girlfriend embark on a quest across Paris to solve the mystery.
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Anything for Alice
Title: Anything for Alice
Character: Alice
Released: January 21, 2014
Type: Movie
Slacker Max fell so hard for single mother Alice in college that he developed a website aimed at winning her heart. Years later, after his venture has earned him millions of dollars, Max risks his entire fortune performing an ever more complicated series of social contortions to get close to Alice, now a politically motivated factory worker.
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Aya of Yop City
Title: Aya of Yop City
Character: Aya
Released: July 17, 2013
Type: Movie
While Aya has dreams of becoming a doctor, her two best friends, Adjoua and Bintou, just like to hang out and spend their evenings dancing, drinking and flirting with boys. Their ambition is to follow Plan C: Combs, Clothes and Chasing Men! But big trouble comes to town when Adjoua realizes she’s pregnant, and the baby’s father is the spoiled son of one of the richest and most feared men in the whole country.
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Deadly Summer
Title: Deadly Summer
Character: Julie
Released: June 19, 2013
Type: Movie
A woman's plans to leave her husband and follow her lover abroad are thrown into turmoil when murder strikes.
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Mood Indigo
Title: Mood Indigo
Character: Alise
Released: January 10, 2013
Type: Movie
A woman suffers from an unusual illness caused by a flower growing in her lungs.
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Today
Title: Today
Character: Nella
Released: January 9, 2013
Type: Movie
Satché is about to die. He decides to make his last day on this world the day of his life.
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HOUBA! On the Trail of the Marsupilami
Title: HOUBA! On the Trail of the Marsupilami
Character: Clarisse Iris
Released: April 3, 2012
Type: Movie
When reporter Dan Geraldo (Alain Chabat) arrives in Palombia to hunt for a scoop, he never suspects that he is about to make an incredible discovery... With his resourceful local guide Pablito (Jamel Debbouze), D an has one surprise after another during a thrilling adventure that allows him to bring the world some spectacular news: the Marsupilami, a mythical and mischievous animal, really does exist! You too will believe in furry tails!
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Title: Toussaint Louverture
Character: Suzanne
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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Toussaint Louverture
Title: Toussaint Louverture
Character: Suzanne
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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One Man's Show
Title: One Man's Show
Character: Elisa
Released: January 2, 2012
Type: Movie
On the eve of his fiftieth birthday, an actor discovers that he's got stomach cancer. He must now face his shattered life.
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Title: Mystère à Paris
Character: Henriette
Released: June 10, 2011
Type: TV
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Pas de toit sans moi
Title: Pas de toit sans moi
Character: Ashanti
Released: June 1, 2011
Type: Movie
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The Counsel
Title: The Counsel
Character: Eve
Released: August 9, 2010
Type: Movie
A new lawyer, looking to establish himself, wins a difficult case and deals with the unforeseen consequences that may destroy him.
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Le temps de la kermesse est terminé
Title: Le temps de la kermesse est terminé
Character: Martina
Released: March 17, 2010
Type: Movie
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Together Is Too Much
Title: Together Is Too Much
Character: Clémentine
Released: February 17, 2010
Type: Movie
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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Title: Suite noire
Character: Sara
Released: July 5, 2009
Type: TV
Step into a world of seedy seduction, sinister plots, bloody murder, and hard vengeance: the pulp-fueled realm of "Suite Noire."
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Diamond 13
Title: Diamond 13
Character: Farida
Released: June 21, 2009
Type: Movie
A cop goes up against his lifelong friend, who has become one of the city's biggest drug traffickers.
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Quand la ville mord
Title: Quand la ville mord
Character: Sara
Released: January 1, 2009
Type: Movie
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L'Aide Au Retour
Title: L'Aide Au Retour
Character: La fonctionnaire
Released: January 1, 2009
Type: Movie
Sofija and Miroslav are two immigrants who live in France without papers with their two sons. To avoid being evicted, the State proposes them a grant if they go back to their country of orgine, the one from which fled.
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Sex, Okra & Salted Butter
Title: Sex, Okra & Salted Butter
Character: Amina
Released: July 18, 2008
Type: Movie
An extramarital affair leads to Hortense’s separation from her very traditional African husband, who is in for a ride as he learns about her love affair, his eldest son’s secret love life, and the responsibilities of single parenthood.
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Crossfire
Title: Crossfire
Character: Kathia
Released: June 11, 2008
Type: Movie
A grizzled Parisian detective is sent to an outpost town in Southern France to dismantle a gang of killers which has freed a notorious criminal. The detective inherits a team of unmotivated and dishevelled detectives, and he makes connections nobody else ever saw because nobody else bothered to look. A mysterious, charismatic figure, he leads by example, and gradually his team begins to feel like cops again.
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Black and White
Title: Black and White
Character: Nadine
Released: January 11, 2008
Type: Movie
Racial integration is Elena's profession and passion, not only filling her working day as a cultural mediator assisting immigrants, but spilling over into her home life as well. All too often her husband Carlo must attend charity events where he feels distinctly out of place. During one of these evenings, Carlo meets Nadine, a beautiful black woman.
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The Age of Man
Title: The Age of Man
Character: Tina
Released: September 12, 2007
Type: Movie
Samuel is 30. Formerly a confirmed bachelor, he has been living with Tina – a photographer – for the past year but he gets scared when it’s time to commit. So he gives himself 24 hours to decide whether or not to break up with the woman he loves, convinced she will leave him sooner or later. By his side, Samuel can count on Jorge and Mounir, his usual confidants.
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I Do
Title: I Do
Character: Kirsten Hansen, l'assistante de la directrice
Released: November 1, 2006
Type: Movie
Life is easy for 43-year-old Luis, a happy single guy, fulfilled in his job of star nose with a perfume creation company, cosseted by his mother and five sisters. It could have lasted for a whole life, but fed up with mollycoddling and helping him, his mother and sisters decide it's time he got married, and the sooner the better!
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Une famille parfaite
Title: Une famille parfaite
Character: Martha
Released: October 17, 2006
Type: Movie
Martha is 30 years old in 2031. She spent a happy childhood in a family not quite like the others since she was adopted by two men. Now, one of them is dead and the other is losing his memory
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Don't Worry, I'm Fine
Title: Don't Worry, I'm Fine
Character: Léa
Released: September 6, 2006
Type: Movie
A 19-year-old searches for her twin brother after he runs away from home, following a fight with their father.
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Bamako
Title: Bamako
Character: Melé
Released: June 21, 2006
Type: Movie
Caught in the stranglehold of debt and structural adjustment, Africa is fighting for its survival. In the face of disaster, representatives of African society bring an action against international financial institutions. The trial takes place in Bamako, in the yard of a house, among its inhabitants.
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Paris Je T'aime
Title: Paris Je T'aime
Character: Sophie (Place des Fêtes)
Released: June 21, 2006
Type: Movie
Olivier Assayas, Gus Van Sant, Wes Craven and Alfonso Cuaron are among the 20 distinguished directors who contribute to this collection of 18 stories, each exploring a different aspect of Parisian life. The colourful characters in this drama include a pair of mimes, a husband trying to chose between his wife and his lover, and a married man who turns to a prostitute for advice.
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Caché
Title: Caché
Character: Chantal
Released: October 5, 2005
Type: Movie
A married couple is terrorized by a series of videotapes planted on their front porch.
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Russian Dolls
Title: Russian Dolls
Character: Kassia
Released: June 15, 2005
Type: Movie
Five years after their summer together in Barcelona, Xavier, William, Wendy, Martine and Isabelle reunite.
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One Stays, the Other Leaves
Title: One Stays, the Other Leaves
Character: Farida
Released: January 12, 2005
Type: Movie
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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Par accident
Title: Par accident
Character: Constance
Released: November 17, 2004
Type: Movie
Isabelle Blanc, a 30 years old biologist who works at the university, awakes in an hospital and doesn't remember why she is in the hospital.Little by little the doctor explains her that she had an accident driving by night under the rain and that accident provoked the death of a person.After her work Isabelle met her companion Vincent and then went alone by car: Vincent called her by cell phone, they spoke about their future and Vincent wanted that Isabelle listens to to a song; then came the crash.After going with Vincent to the place of the accident (where she saw a bouquet of flowers for the dead person) Isabelle reads in the newspaper the death notice of Marie Delhomme.
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My Children Are Different
Title: My Children Are Different
Character: Myriam
Released: July 23, 2003
Type: Movie
A classical musician demands that his beautiful daughter and his young son follow in his footsteps despite their personal wishes.
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Don't Worry, Be Happy
Title: Don't Worry, Be Happy
Character: Anna
Released: May 14, 2003
Type: Movie
With his vitriolic pen, Désiré Loncle, does not make the life of filmmakers easy. But chickens come home to roost, don't they? As a matter of fact, Désiré gets his due punishment when Manu, his girlfriend, kicks him out of home. At a loss, he finds refuge with Alex, a young actor. He is soon joined by Eduardo, an Italian producer, dumped like him by his wife. While Désiré tries to rebuild himself, the three men decide to write a film script that will be the basis of a vehicle for Alex.
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The Bathers
Title: The Bathers
Character: Rita's sister
Released: January 22, 2003
Type: Movie
Sexy, gritty and as provocative as a lap dance, The Bathers takes an insider's look at the lives of six women working as dancers at a seedy Parisian peep show. Governed by their overprotective boss, the girls' routine of glittery neon lights and lecherous customers is soon disrupted when an enigmatic stranger enters the scene. Now, drugs, sex and bickering all take a back seat as the girls unite to save this man haunted by a mysterious past and unforgiving demons. A fascinating glimpse into a world of back alleys and primal instincts, The Bathers transports us to a netherworld where the show always goes on.
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Title: Burger Quiz
Character: Self
Released: August 27, 2001
Type: TV
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Journey to Ouaga
Title: Journey to Ouaga
Character: Loutaya
Released: January 1, 2001
Type: Movie
Lionel, a young Frenchman, who has just arrived in Cotonou, Benin, loses his car, airplane ticket and passport and his hopes in riots in the city.
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Marie-Line
Title: Marie-Line
Character: Malika
Released: December 20, 2000
Type: Movie
A woman learns to care for others when she's forced to help people on the wrong side of the law in this drama. Marie-Line (Muriel Robin) is a single woman in her mid-forties who oversees the cleaning crew at a large office building. On the job, Marie-Line is all business, with no patience for laziness and no tolerance for employees who do less than a perfect job. But Marie-Line's bosses are in the midst of a money crunch and they've cut back on her budget, so when several of her employees quit, she has to find new cleaners willing to work for a lower wage. Marie-Line soon finds new workers willing to work hard for low pay, but there's a catch -- most of them are illegal aliens, smuggled into France from Africa, Albania, or the Middle East, and when police begin asking questions about Marie-Line's new cleaners, she has to scramble to cover for them.
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Lise and Andre
Title: Lise and Andre
Character: Esther
Released: November 29, 2000
Type: Movie
Lise is a Parisian prostitute who has a young son, Sebastien. Lise dotes on her boy, who has a gift for music and sings in a children's choir directed by aging parish priest Father Andre. Sebastien becomes involved in an auto accident that sends him into a coma; after he remains unconscious for three months, Lise begins to panic, desperate for a remedy that medical science can't provide. When she is told of a field in a village in rural France where a miracle is said to have occurred some years before -- an apparition of the Virgin Mary arrived to provide food for a group of starving children -- Lise wants to travel to the site of the miracle to pray for her son. She also insists that Father Andre come along, but the priest is not eager to go, due to his age, his health, and his increasing cynicism about religion. Lise is persistent, however, and before long the two are on the road in search of a much-needed miracle.
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Code Unknown
Title: Code Unknown
Character: Black Girl with Blonde Hair
Released: November 15, 2000
Type: Movie
A series of events unfold like a chain reaction, all stemming from a minor event that brings the film's five characters together. Set in Paris, France, Anne is an actress whose boyfriend Georges photographs the war in Kosovo. Georges' brother, Jean, is looking for the entry code to Georges' apartment. These characters' lives interconnect with a Romanian immigrant and a deaf teacher.
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Jonas and Lila, Til Tomorrow
Title: Jonas and Lila, Til Tomorrow
Character: Lila
Released: November 10, 1999
Type: Movie
It’s December 1999, and 25-year-old Jonah has just graduated from film school. As the new millennium begins, Jonah marries his longtime sweetheart Lila. Over the course of six months, the couple meet a number of interesting people, including Irina, an exiled Russian actress, as well as spending their time with Jonah’s sister Cecile and his filmmaking mentor Anziano. The discussions Jonah has with these friends and strangers help him to gain some perspective on his life and the new millennium.
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Lucy's Revenge
Title: Lucy's Revenge
Character: Lucy
Released: June 17, 1998
Type: Movie
After Polish-born writer-director Janusz Mrozowski, a French resident for the past 30 years, made a series of 30-minute films based on African writings, he was approached by Africans to do a cinematic survey of past events in African history. Filming in Burkina Faso, Mrozowski responded with this comedy about a dictator kidnapped from the present-day and taken back through the mists of time. There he meets the mother of humanity, Lucy, who teaches him the basics of sexual equality. By the time he returns to the present, he's also received an education in 16th-century slave-trading and European influences on Africa.
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Title: Les Cordier, juge et flic
Character: Aline
Released: February 24, 1994
Type: TV
The Cordier fight in family against the crime: the father is police captain, the son, investigating judge and the girl, a journalist.
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Title: Victoires de la musique
Character: Self
Released: November 23, 1985
Type: TV
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Title: Police Commissioner Moulin
Character: Dolly
Released: August 4, 1976
Type: TV
The series follows the adventures of lighthearted Jean-Paul Moulin, a police Commissaire, and his team as they solve crimes.
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Impatientes
Title: Impatientes
Character: Dr Milleux
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
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The Man Who Saved Paris
Title: The Man Who Saved Paris
Character: Desiree
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
The most successful brothel owner in Paris during the 1940s is asked by the government to restore the city's image (City of Love, Romance, Light) after the Nazi Occupation and falls in love when he least expects it.
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Un château en Espagne
Title: Un château en Espagne
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
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Les Saigneurs
Title: Les Saigneurs
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie