Jo Prestia

Jo Prestia

Born: June 5, 1960
in Porto Empedocle (AG), Sicilia, Italia
Jo Prestia (born 5 June 1960 in Porto Empedocle) is an Italian born French kick boxer and actor. He appeared in more than seventy films since 1996 and is best known for his performance as Le Tenia in the controversial 2002 film, Irréversible.

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Blazing Neon
Title: Blazing Neon
Character: Adur
Released: November 16, 2022
Type: Movie
Two desperate characters search for freedom in action-packed road movie noir from FGKO, adapted from the thriller by Rémy Lasource.
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Super Z
Title: Super Z
Character: The cousin
Released: October 31, 2022
Type: Movie
The adventures of a family of genetically modified super-zombies.
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The Takedown
Title: The Takedown
Character: Goran
Released: May 6, 2022
Type: Movie
Ousmane Diakité and François Monge are two cops with very different styles, backgrounds and careers. The unlikely pair are reunited once again for a new investigation that takes them across France. What seemed to be a simple drug deal turns out to be a much bigger criminal case wrapped in danger and unexpected comedy.
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Irréversible : à l'envers et contre tout
Title: Irréversible : à l'envers et contre tout
Character: himself
Released: May 17, 2021
Type: Movie
A documentary on the making of Irréversible
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Vagabondes
Title: Vagabondes
Released: August 24, 2019
Type: Movie
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Quand on crie au loup
Title: Quand on crie au loup
Character: Sbire balafré
Released: July 3, 2019
Type: Movie
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Crocs
Title: Crocs
Character: Raoul
Released: March 18, 2019
Type: Movie
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The Irreversible Odyssey
Title: The Irreversible Odyssey
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 2019
Type: Movie
The Irreversible Odyssey is a retrospective documentary featuring interviews with Gaspar Noé, actors Monica Bellucci, Vincent Cassel and Albert Dupontel.
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Title: A jamais
Character: Gaetan véron
Released: July 13, 2018
Type: TV
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Thugocratie
Title: Thugocratie
Character: Maurice
Released: January 31, 2018
Type: Movie
Voyoucratie is FGKO’s new film project. It’s a dramatic fiction about a young gangster’s chaotic path into life crushed by a criminal universe that he can’t escape from. It’s also about a frozen portrait of a youth trapped by a system that leads you to delinquency as the only way to exist. The pitch: Sam, a little bandit, finds himself trapped by a corrupted police officer who forces him to get information about Ali, one of the high crime boss known to be very dangerous.
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Alibi.com
Title: Alibi.com
Character: Prosper
Released: February 15, 2017
Type: Movie
Greg founded a company called Alibi.com that creates any type of alibi. With his associate, Augustin, and Medhi his new employee, they devise unstoppable stratagems and stagings to cover their clients. But meeting Flo, a pretty blonde who hates men who lie, will complicate Greg's life, which begins by hiding the true nature of his activity. During the presentation to parents, Greg understands that Gérard, the father of Flo, is also one of their clients.
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Ares
Title: Ares
Character: Zito
Released: November 23, 2016
Type: Movie
In a near future, the world order has changed. With its 10 millions of unemployed citizens, France has now become a poor country. Its people wavers between rebellion and resignation and find an outlet in the shape of TV broadcast ultra brutal fights in which the players are legally doped and unscrupulous.
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Colt 45
Title: Colt 45
Character: Marco
Released: August 6, 2014
Type: Movie
Vincent Miles, a gunsmith and shooting instructor at the National Police, is an expert in combat shooting who stubbornly refuses to join a field brigade, a choice which their colleagues do not understand. When he meets Milo Cardena, a mysterious and skilled cop, his life changes in such way that he cannot ignore his true nature anymore.
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En pays cannibale
Title: En pays cannibale
Released: June 26, 2013
Type: Movie
Max and his gang of crazy buddies wander around the depths of a small, quirky, city-dweller community, driven by parties, sex and drugs.
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Cosimo and Nicole
Title: Cosimo and Nicole
Character: Jean
Released: November 29, 2012
Type: Movie
Cosimo is Italian, Nicole French. They meet in Genoa during the G8 protests and immediately fall in love. Swept off their feet by an overwhelming and uncontrollable passion, they decide never to part. After much wandering they decide to return to Genoa, where they start working for a friend of theirs who organises concerts. Things seem to be going well until a tragic accident almost sours their relationship, as a result of which they’re faced with two options that can change their future. Forever.
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Paris Express
Title: Paris Express
Character: Sharas
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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Le Mac
Title: Le Mac
Character: Marco
Released: February 16, 2010
Type: Movie
A mild-mannered banker is forced to masquerade as a notorious gangster and pimp.
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The Horde
Title: The Horde
Character: José
Released: February 10, 2010
Type: Movie
A bunch of crooked cops raid a ruined building located in an impoverished suburb of Paris, determined to furiously avenge the death of one of them, murdered by the ruthless criminal gang hidden on top of the dark labyrinth that will become a deathly trap when the living, unexpectedly turned into the undead by a mysterious plague, begin to devour the world.
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The Girl from Monaco
Title: The Girl from Monaco
Character: Aldo
Released: August 20, 2008
Type: Movie
A brilliant and neurotic attorney goes to Monaco to defend a famous criminal. But, instead of focusing on the case, he falls for a beautiful she-devil, who turns him into a complete wreck... Hopefully, his zealous bodyguard will step in and put everything back in order... Or will he ?
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Par suite d'un arrêt de travail...
Title: Par suite d'un arrêt de travail...
Character: un routier gréviste
Released: July 2, 2008
Type: Movie
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Rivoallan
Title: Rivoallan
Character: Rivoallan
Released: January 1, 2008
Type: Movie
An undercover cop is unmasked during a drug deal. A shootout ensues that will leave more than one person dead...
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Vent mauvais
Title: Vent mauvais
Character: Max
Released: February 10, 2007
Type: Movie
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Madame Irma
Title: Madame Irma
Character: Le client patibulaire
Released: December 6, 2006
Type: Movie
Francis, who is in his forties, manages the French subsidiary of an American high-tech company. But the shareholders suddenly decide to close it. Depressed by the idea of being unemployed and the prospect of losing his second wife, Francis decides to consult a fortune-teller. The experience is a real eye-opener for him and the start of a new career: He pretends to be a fortune teller himself and turns into Madame Irma. How to explain that to his wife Clotilde?
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13 Tzameti
Title: 13 Tzameti
Character: Pierre Bléreau
Released: September 1, 2005
Type: Movie
Sebastian, a young man, has decided to follow instructions intended for someone else, without knowing where they will take him. Something else he does not know is that Gerard Dorez, a cop on a knife-edge, is tailing him. When he reaches his destination, Sebastian falls into a degenerate, clandestine world of mental chaos behind closed doors in which men gamble on the lives of others men.
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Calvaire
Title: Calvaire
Character: Fermier Mylène
Released: March 9, 2005
Type: Movie
A few days before Christmas, traveling entertainer Marc Stevens is stuck at nightfall in a remote wood in the swampy Hautes Fagnes region of Liège when his van breaks down. An odd chap who's looking for a lost dog then leads Marc to a shuttered inn.
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Ze Film
Title: Ze Film
Character: Dédé
Released: February 23, 2005
Type: Movie
A poor kid nicknamed Kubrick loves movies and dreams about being an award winning director. One day, he stumbles upon a movie shoot, gets confused with a real movie maker and takes the equipment he needs to shoot his movie.
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36th Precinct
Title: 36th Precinct
Character: Victor Dragan
Released: November 24, 2004
Type: Movie
The film takes place in Paris, where two cops are competing for the vacant seat of chief of police while in the middle of a search for a gang of violent thieves. The movie is directed by Olivier Marchal, a former police officer who spent 12 years with the French police before creating this story, which is taken in part from real facts that happened during the 1980s in France.
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Title: Léa Parker
Character: Eric Raynal
Released: March 7, 2004
Type: TV
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Crimson Rivers II: Angels of the Apocalypse
Title: Crimson Rivers II: Angels of the Apocalypse
Character: Emilio
Released: February 18, 2004
Type: Movie
No one is safe when seemingly random killings emerge as a deadly pattern intended to usher in the end of the world. A murder victim with the same DNA as Christ. A serial killer mimicking the deaths of the 12 Apostles. Inspector Niemans and a young, rebellious detective team up with a beautiful expert in religion to crack the case before their elusive suspect completes the cycle of terror, paving the way to an even bigger bloody catastrophe.
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Grande école
Title: Grande école
Released: February 4, 2004
Type: Movie
Paul and Agnes have been going out for quite a while and Agnes is shocked to learn that he'd rather live with two roommates on campus than move in with her. As soon as he meets one of his roommates, Louis-Anault, Paul's behavior changes - he is attracted to Louis without realizing so himself. Agnes, on the other hand, gets quite jealous and offers a bet: Whoever gets to have Louis-Anault first, wins... If she does, Paul will no longer explore his homosexual desires, if he does - she'll walk away. Meanwhile, Paul meets Mecir, a young Arab worker, who shows him there's more to life than elite colleges...
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Lovely Rita
Title: Lovely Rita
Character: Lapointe
Released: September 24, 2003
Type: Movie
Edgar Lamarck - an accountant and auditor is coming to the the shipyard on Cote d'Azur in order to check the statements. After completing his mission, he decides to relax and spend the night with the green-eyed blonde with a curvy shape who he met on a porn site. Coming to Rita, he discovers weedy brunette with a pistol in her hand, standing over a fresh corpse. It's not a girl Edgar was looking for but now it's too late to retreat...
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Livraison à domicile
Title: Livraison à domicile
Character: Duval
Released: July 2, 2003
Type: Movie
A pizza delivery guy decides to expand his job and now delivers anything, even a car.
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Rage
Title: Rage
Released: April 16, 2003
Type: Movie
Raphael is an ex-boxing champ who now trains his young brother Manu. Tony, Raphael's ex-rival, returns to town to wed his reluctant fiance Chinh. As soon as Chinh and Raphael meet, sparks fly, and soon the two are sneaking out together.
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Irreversible
Title: Irreversible
Character: The Tapeworm
Released: May 22, 2002
Type: Movie
A woman’s lover and her ex-boyfriend take justice into their own hands after she becomes the victim of a rapist. Because some acts can’t be undone. Because man is an animal. Because the desire for vengeance is a natural impulse. Because most crimes remain unpunished.
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Femme Fatale
Title: Femme Fatale
Character: Napoleon
Released: April 30, 2002
Type: Movie
A $10-million diamond rip-off, a stolen identity, a new life married to a diplomat. Laure Ash has risked big, won big. But then a tabloid shutterbug snaps her picture in Paris, and suddenly, enemies from Laure's secret past know who and where she is. And they all want their share of the diamond heist. Or her life. Or both.
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Requiem
Title: Requiem
Character: Gippé
Released: December 28, 2001
Type: Movie
Four hardened crooks break out of prison. Hunted down, with nowhere to run, they seek refuge in the only place the police cannot follow, a Cistercian monastery. Cut off from the outside world, a nightmare stand off develops between the fugitives, ready to kill in defence of their dearly purchased freedom, and the monks they' re holding hostage. But in this potentially lethal confrontation, nothing is quite as it seems. The game' s been rigged from the start. Requiem' s a violent and fast paced French film that really delivers.
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Total Western
Title: Total Western
Character: Johan
Released: June 13, 2000
Type: Movie
After a drug deal gone wrong, Bédé goes into hiding in the countryside at a reformative school for criminal youth. His location is found out, and he and the pupils have to protect themselves with whatever means they have.
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The Little Thief
Title: The Little Thief
Character: Tony
Released: September 12, 1999
Type: Movie
In this French drama, a teenager falls into a life of crime, little realizing the consequences. S. is a moody young man who loses his job at a bakery, and decides to throw in his lot with a group of thieves about the same age as himself. S. and his cronies are strictly small-timers, pulling off second-rate break-ins for an older crime boss, but his willingness to do what he's told helps him rise up the ladder to bigger and more lucrative jobs. However, S. lacks the maturity or experience to deal with the risks, and after a few disastrous mistakes, he finds his fortunes sinking far faster than they rose.
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Poker de charme
Title: Poker de charme
Character: Manzoni
Released: February 7, 1999
Type: Movie
A sumptuous palace in Biarritz is the scene of amorous and criminal intrigues.
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The Dreamlife of Angels
Title: The Dreamlife of Angels
Character: Fredo
Released: October 16, 1998
Type: Movie
Isa and Marie bond while working in a French sweatshop and soon begin sharing an apartment that Marie is watching for a hospitalized mother and daughter. Marie, hoping to avoid a life of struggle and poverty, takes up with Chriss, a nightclub owner whose most attractive asset is his money. Isa recognizes the ultimate futility of the relationship and tries to keep Marie away from him, but her interference puts their friendship at risk.
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Melody for a Hustler
Title: Melody for a Hustler
Character: Le petit
Released: October 14, 1998
Type: Movie
French novelist Vincent Ravalec made his directorial debut with this French drama about small-time crook Gaston (Yvan Attal) who poses as a millionaire after he picks up hitchhiking 16-year-old Marie-Pierre (Virginie Lanoue). Actually living in a seedy apartment, Gaston deals in stolen goods, but he soon climbs to bigger heists, including car thefts. Concealing his illegal activities, Gaston operates his company, Extramill, out of upscale, posh offices, while he and Marie-Pierre move into a sedate upper-middle-class neighborhood. Life is sweet, but the onset of paranoia, kinky sex activities, and police probes eventually culminate in violence.
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Salut cousin !
Title: Salut cousin !
Released: November 15, 1996
Type: Movie
The comedy in this lively film barely conceals its darker, more serious undertones as it chronicles a young Algerian's eye-opening introduction to the joys and travails of being an immigrant in Paris. Alilo has left his home to pick up an important suitcase for his employer. Unfortunately, he has lost the Parisian address. Fortunately, his cousin Mok, emigrated there several years before with his middle-class family before and is able to act as a guide. Mok, an aspiring rap singer, comes from a middle-class family, but chooses to live on his own in the dilapidated deteriorating 18th district, known as 'Moskova.' Mok characterizes the place as a haven for artists and intellectuals, but it is plainly just a Third World slum filled with tightly knit and colorful neighbors. Mok and Alilo have many interesting, some tragedy-tinged adventures over the five days it takes them to find the suitcase.
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Rai
Title: Rai
Released: June 28, 1995
Type: Movie
Raï is about a gang of youths in a Parisian suburb.This is the multicultural environment in which Mezz, Aziz, Laurent, Nordine, Poisson and the others have grown up. There is no future in Garges-les-Gonesses. Unemployment is high, drugs and violence are a part of everyday life. The opportunity to escape seems nonexistent.
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Title: Police Commissioner Moulin
Character: Getlif
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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Title: Police Commissioner Moulin
Character: Le forain
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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Title: Police Commissioner Moulin
Character: Patrick Klotz
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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Title: Police Commissioner Moulin
Character: Fred Angeli
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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Title: Police Commissioner Moulin
Character: Thierry Bossais
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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Title: Police Commissioner Moulin
Character: Frère Muller n°1
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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Title: Police Commissioner Moulin
Character: Romani
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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Vache folle
Title: Vache folle
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie