Manuel Blanc

Manuel Blanc

Born: June 12, 1968

Movies for Manuel Blanc...

Down in Paris
Title: Down in Paris
Character: Mathias
Released: March 2, 2022
Type: Movie
Richard, a 40-year-old filmmaker conquered by an unexplained anxiety attack, lets go of his current shoot and wanders through nocturnal Paris, in search of answers, solace and inspiration. During this sleepless night, at random encounters, sometimes warm, sometimes disturbing, crossing foreign figures, unknown bodies or familiar faces, Richard will face his fears and question his deep desires... until dawn.
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The French Boys 3
Title: The French Boys 3
Character: Jean-Christophe Lebeau
Released: February 4, 2022
Type: Movie
Through the unlikely mediums of dance, graffiti, and elementary school dress-up, these French boys young and old show that whether it's about coming out or getting the guy - you had better do it in style. The short films are: Fairyocious [Féeroce] (2019); The Graffiti [Le graffiti] (2019); Eva (2016); A New Breath [Second souffle] (2021); Masculine (2018); The Tightrope Walkers [Les équilibristes] (2017).
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Des traîtres dans la Résistance
Title: Des traîtres dans la Résistance
Character: Jean-Paul Lien (voice)
Released: November 18, 2021
Type: Movie
In May 1943, Ernst Kaltenbrunner, the new head of the Reich Central Security Office, gave Hitler a report describing in detail the organization of the French Resistance. Indeed, during the Second World War, most of the Resistance networks had been infiltrated by traitors, the "V Man" (trusted men) in the service of the occupier. The Germans had established treason as a system and recruiting Frenchmen ready to inform on them was one of their priorities. It was these Frenchmen, whose number is estimated at between 20,000 and 30,000, who dealt terrible blows to the Resistance.
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Persona non grata
Title: Persona non grata
Character: Business manager
Released: July 17, 2019
Type: Movie
José Nunes and Maxime Charasse are friends and minority partners in a struggling construction company. Faced with the need to protect their interests, they make a radical decision and find themselves bound by a dark secret.
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Title: Chronicles of the Sun
Character: Guillem
Released: August 27, 2018
Type: TV
Claire is surprised when she gets arrested for the murder of her childhood friend after she returns to Montpellier.
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Title: The Chalet
Character: Jean-Louis Rodier
Released: March 26, 2018
Type: TV
Friends gathered at a remote chalet in the French Alps for a summer getaway are caught in a deadly trap as a dark secret from the past comes to light.
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The Tightrope Walkers
Title: The Tightrope Walkers
Character: Jean-Christophe Lebeau
Released: May 15, 2017
Type: Movie
Vincent spots Jean-Christophe on the beach, bumps into him not so accidentally, and they hit it off during a fun evening and night. But the next morning Jean-Christophe reveals something that turns Vincent's life upside down. How will they get through the day?
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Where Horses Go to Die
Title: Where Horses Go to Die
Character: Manuela / Marco
Released: January 18, 2017
Type: Movie
Daniel is an artist who has lost his desire to paint. An unexpected meeting with three « working girls » one evening marks the beginning of a surreal adventure. Later that night, the wildest dreams and the worst nightmares of his three new muses unravel in his imagination.
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No Trifling with Love
Title: No Trifling with Love
Released: January 1, 2017
Type: Movie
Antoine and Marina spend their holidays in a club near the Mediterranean sea. They hope to find again a bit of intimacy. But at nearly forty, after years of marriage and two children, desire can be quite capricious. Despite all, Antoine and Marina can land on their feet!
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Title: Capitaine Marleau
Character: Alain Peras
Released: September 15, 2015
Type: TV
Beneath her eccentric appearance, Captain Marleau is a formidable detective. Her Sherlock Holmes deerstalker cap, her character, her unusual appearance, her humor, her unpredictable behavior--Captain Marleau is not your average gendarme. She never rushes an investigation; she becomes the investigation and relentlessly pursues the suspects.
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One Deep Breath
Title: One Deep Breath
Released: November 28, 2014
Type: Movie
Eros and Thanatos. One deep breath: this is what Maël might need to cope with his partner Adam's suicide, a tragic event that, apart from great sorrow, has caused him to have a physical breakdown. He is troubled by his doubts about his lover's last drastic act, by how he put an end to his life and to their difficult relationship. But his grief turns into anger when he discovers that Adam had a secret long-term relationship with a woman called Patricia: he digs deep into his own memories, recollecting past events and eventually meeting his rival. On her part, Patricia will have to face unexpected dangers. A claustrophobic melodrama, with an unstructured and evocative narrative style. Here, South African director Antony Hickling, 34, confirms his visionary talent and ability to adopt a fresh point of view on queer cinema. All the performers are strictly gay and transgender, including Manuel Blanc, who was once André Téchiné's muse.
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Holy Thursday (The Last Supper)
Title: Holy Thursday (The Last Supper)
Character: Dieu
Released: September 20, 2013
Type: Movie
Jean-Christophe, about twenty, meets his father for the first time. In a forest where they have decided to meet, reality transforms itself and takes the form of a fantastic tale. For Jean-Christophe, the hour is of disappointment in front of the fantasized father who turns out to be very different from what he had dreamed.
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Title: Falco
Character: Didier Fantin
Released: June 20, 2013
Type: TV
In 1991, 24-year-old Detective Alexandre Falco has it all, a loving wife, a new-born daughter and his dream job. But one day out in the field, he is shot in the head. Falco opens his eyes again 22 years later to a changed world, where everything he once had is no longer as it was.
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Little Gay Boy
Title: Little Gay Boy
Character: Dieu
Released: February 13, 2013
Type: Movie
A young gay boy, from his birth to his teenage years, in which he experiments his sexuality and his own boundaries, to the day he finally meets his father. In three acts: Act I — L'Annonciation or The Conception of a Little Gay Boy (2011); Act II — Little Gay Boy, ChrisT is Dead (2012); and Act III — Holy Thursday (The Last Supper) (2013).
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Title: Dead Beautiful
Character: Bruno
Released: January 14, 2011
Type: TV
As group leader of the Judicial Police in Paris, Martin is responsible for investigating the most atrocious and misogynistic crimes committed against society. Distrustful of everyone, he bears the marks of both his past successes and failures. Luckily, the ladies in his life are on hand to assist him.
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Title: Suite noire
Character: Gabriel
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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Sex, Okra & Salted Butter
Title: Sex, Okra & Salted Butter
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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Mitterrand à Vichy
Title: Mitterrand à Vichy
Character: Jean-Paul Martin
Released: April 22, 2008
Type: Movie
The dark years, those of war. This film, which combines fiction and archives, tells the story of the unusual trajectory of a young man from the provinces. Prisoner of war, escaped at the age of 24, he found himself in Vichy, capital of the French state. A convinced Pétainist, he will become a leading resistance fighter.
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Villa Jasmin
Title: Villa Jasmin
Character: Guilbaud
Released: January 19, 2008
Type: Movie
A compelling double love story about a French-Tunisian Jewish family. Henry returns to La Goulette, port of Tunisia, with his wife, in search of his family roots. The film explores his parent's history from the 1920s, and the impact of the Vichy Government under German Occupation in the 1940s.
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Exes
Title: Exes
Released: October 4, 2006
Type: Movie
Virginie, a very famous writer, is caught up in her past. A serial killer with inhuman cruelty, Exes, the hero of his first novel, wants to take revenge on her.
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Capitaines des ténèbres
Title: Capitaines des ténèbres
Released: April 28, 2006
Type: Movie
In 1899, a French military column, led by Captains Julien Chanoine and Paul Voulet, set out to conquer Lake Chad in order to unite the French colonial empire. The two captains were violent and ruthless towards the local populations and their colonial soldiers. The Voulet-Chanoine mission sinks further and further into unknown Niger territory while the lack of food supplies is felt. Little by little, Voulet falls into a megalomaniac delirium.
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Telma demain
Title: Telma demain
Character: The teacher
Released: June 2, 2005
Type: Movie
Telma, twelve years old, is passionate about literature. She assiduously prepares a competition for budding writers. But her mother has other ambitions for her. Telma and her mother clash...
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Before You Leave
Title: Before You Leave
Character: Doug
Released: May 2, 2005
Type: Movie
A group of friends in their thirties meet for a weekend in a mountain chalet for what will be a sort of review of an era in their lives and their relationships.
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En ton absence
Title: En ton absence
Character: Luc
Released: May 29, 2004
Type: Movie
Léa and Luc were living together. During the day, Léa would take photos. At night, she could not sleep and oftentimes looked out the window. One day, Léa told Luc that a man was watching her from the opposite building. But Luc did not believe Léa's stories.
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A Little Comfort
Title: A Little Comfort
Character: Yannick
Released: January 31, 2004
Type: Movie
Arnaud and Guillaume are in their last year of high school. Summer is approaching and like any teenager, they're thinking about cigarettes, alcohol and sex. But boys or girls? Future looks so blurry when you're a teenager!
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Je t’aime, je t’adore
Title: Je t’aime, je t’adore
Character: Laurent
Released: January 21, 2004
Type: Movie
Delphine is 25 years old. She has a passion for swimming and is preparing her lifeguard diploma with great enthusiasm and diligence. She loves Laurent and lives with him at his father's house in the Drôme Provençale. During a competition, she meets David and falls in love with him. He obtains a transfer to Montélimar, where Delphine lives, to be closer to her. But she is pregnant by Laurent.
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Deux
Title: Deux
Character: The man with the flower / the Russian officer / Henri L. / the French officer
Released: November 13, 2002
Type: Movie
After reading a postcard that her mother let go in the wind, a woman learns that she has a twin.
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Alive
Title: Alive
Character: Paul
Released: February 27, 2002
Type: Movie
After a brutal attack, a 19-year-old girl falls into a self-destructive cycle.
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Mes parents
Title: Mes parents
Released: January 1, 2002
Type: Movie
A voice of a diabolical elf declares that his parents should never have brought him into the world. Its genesis is the story of a woman who is all the more obsessed by the desire to have a child than she is by not being able to have one, or to keep alive those she gives birth to. In the depths of her small farm in Provence, she has to put up with a lazy, drunken, porn-loving husband, until the day he decides to deprive her of her child substitute and offers to make her a real one. Tipping over into murderous madness, she then begins a real sentimental education, full of horrors and emotions.
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The Blue Island
Title: The Blue Island
Character: André, Mellie's fiancé
Released: June 18, 2001
Type: Movie
France, 1940. German troops have just invaded the country, but in the rural idyll of the family chateau inhabited by 20-year-old Mellie with her impoverished aristocrat father Alexandre and adolescent cousin Robinson, the war still seems far away, apart from the fact that Mellie's rich and unpopular fiancé André has been drafted into the army. For Robinson and his friends the same age, including the temperamental Bertrand, the war is merely a game they play in the remoteness of the blue island in the lake.
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L'esprit du jeu
Title: L'esprit du jeu
Character: L'homme
Released: January 1, 2001
Type: Movie
Thomas engages in a strange game of billiards with an invisible opponent.
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Exit
Title: Exit
Character: Junk
Released: July 11, 2000
Type: Movie
Stan is young, but had already been in hell. Once he was accused in a series of brutal murders, though the evidence was not accurate. The verdict of the court sent him to hospital, where they hold dangerous mentally ill. A few years later at the urging of his psychiatrist dealing resumed, and Stan was released.However, after his release from the hospital once again began killing one another frightening ...
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Title: Ladies of the Law
Character: Thierry Bourgeois
Released: June 22, 2000
Type: TV
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1999 Madeleine
Title: 1999 Madeleine
Character: Gabriel
Released: January 1, 1999
Type: Movie
1999 Madeleine is the first step in an ambitious project by the French filmmaker Laurent Bouhnik to make one film per year between 1999-2009, recounting the turn of the century in an interweaving narrative pattern. Episode one is about Madeline, a lonely woman obsessed by religion and cleanliness. Her solitary existence leads her to place an advertisement for a man willing to share his life with a 'single, working 35-year-old.' She is a woman of our times who is caught between the paradoxes of modern life and individual needs for communication. The world offers her opportunities to satisfy material needs but, unfortunately, this is to the detriment of her spiritual needs.
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Title: Vivement dimanche
Character: Self
Released: September 20, 1998
Type: TV
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Beaumarchais the Scoundrel
Title: Beaumarchais the Scoundrel
Character: Gudin
Released: March 20, 1996
Type: Movie
Beaumarchais the Scoundrel is a biopic film based on the life of the French playwright, financier and spy Pierre Beaumarchais depicting his activities during the American War of Independence and his authorship of the Figaro trilogy of plays.
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Title: La Rivière Espérance
Character: Benjamin Donadieu
Released: September 4, 1995
Type: TV
La Rivière Espérance is a French TV series, 9 episodes of 90 minutes each, directed by Josée Dayan based on the novel by Christian Signol and shown in 1995 on France 2.
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Le Roi de Paris
Title: Le Roi de Paris
Character: Paul Derval
Released: January 11, 1995
Type: Movie
Victor Derval is returning home after a performance when he is hailed by Lisa, a young Hungarian woman. Her motives are mysterious; is she simply a star-struck peasant girl, or an ambitious, manipulative aspiring star?
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Lou Didn't Say No
Title: Lou Didn't Say No
Character: Pierre
Released: December 21, 1994
Type: Movie
The turbulent relationship between a filmmaker and a volatile actor.
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Poorly Extinguished Fires
Title: Poorly Extinguished Fires
Character: Jérôme
Released: January 12, 1994
Type: Movie
A French army journalist bears witness to the atrocities of the Algerian war in 1962 in this gripping French war movie. It is based on the 1967 novel by Philippe Labro. The film begins in Paris as Jerome Carier, ready to embark to Algiers, is beaten and questioned about the politically sensitive photographs he has. The photos were sent to him by Francois, a friend stationed in Algiers. Francoise is trying to get the French and the Algerians to reconcile. Jerome arrives in the war-torn country and finds himself faced with unbelievable carnage. The French are behind most of it. Because he took the pictures, Francois life is in jeopardy. He is murdered and Jerome finds himself attracted to his girl friend, a radio station announcer. The film contains graphic pictures of the slaughter.
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A Crime
Title: A Crime
Character: Frédéric Chapelin
Released: August 4, 1993
Type: Movie
"Un Crime" takes place over a single night, between 10pm and 6am. It takes place in a single setting - a millionaire's apartment in Lyon. The film is about the conflict between two men, alone, face to face in the closed world of the apartment. The first man is a famous lawyer named Dunand. The second is Frédéric Chapelin-Tourvel, Dunand's rich client, twenty years his junior. Throughout the night, Dunand tries to track down the truth. Did Frédéric kill his father and mother, in particularly barbarous circumstances ?
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I Don't Kiss
Title: I Don't Kiss
Character: Pierre Lacaze
Released: November 20, 1991
Type: Movie
A good-looking but naive lad leaves his mountain village to try and make his way in Paris. He thinks maybe he will try acting but things don't go too well for him. Eventually he is forced to sell himself to men and though he meets an attractive girl she is herself a prostitute with a vicious pimp.
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The Saint: The Blue Dulac
Title: The Saint: The Blue Dulac
Released: September 9, 1989
Type: Movie
Simon Templar uses twin sisters and a rare Russian necklace to trap a ruthless American in Paris.