Louis Garrel

Louis Garrel

Born: June 14, 1983
in Paris, France
Louis Garrel (born 14 June 1983 in Paris) is a French actor. He is best known for his starring role in The Dreamers, directed by Bernardo Bertolucci. He regularly appears in films by French director Christophe Honoré, including Ma mère, Dans Paris, Les Chansons d'amour, La Belle Personne and Non ma fille, tu n'iras pas danser.

Movies for Louis Garrel...

Saint-Ex
Title: Saint-Ex
Character: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Released: December 11, 2024
Type: Movie
The story takes us back to 1930 and centres around Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, an Airmail pilot in Argentina. When his best friend who happens to be Airmail’s best pilot Henri Guillaumet disappears in the Andes, Saint-Ex decides to set out in search of him, against all odds. This impossible quest forces him to push beyond his limits, turning his capacity to dream into his greatest strength...
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The Second Act
Title: The Second Act
Character: David
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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The Three Musketeers: Milady
Title: The Three Musketeers: Milady
Character: Louis XIII
Released: December 13, 2023
Type: Movie
D'Artagnan, on a quest to rescue the abducted Constance, runs into the mysterious Milady de Winter again. The tension between the Catholics and the Protestants finally escalates, as the king declares war — forcing the now four musketeers into battle. But as the war goes on, they are tested physically, mentally and emotionally.
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Viva Varda!
Title: Viva Varda!
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: May 17, 2023
Type: Movie
A pioneering post-war female film director, an instigator of the New Wave who was honored by Hollywood in her own lifetime, Agnès Varda has become a source of inspiration for a whole new generation of young filmmakers. With movies like Cléo de 5 à 7, Le Bonheur, Sans toit ni loi, Les Glaneurs et la glaneuse, she created a quirky, open to the world, sensitive to the disenfranchised, often silly body of work. Always one finger on the pulse, she shook everything up, including cinema itself which she refused to constrict to pure fiction or long-form films.
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The Three Musketeers: D'Artagnan
Title: The Three Musketeers: D'Artagnan
Character: Louis XIII
Released: April 5, 2023
Type: Movie
D'Artagnan, a spirited young Gascon, is left for dead after trying to save a noblewoman from being kidnapped. Once in Paris, he tries by all means to find his attackers, unaware that his quest will lead him to the very heart of a war where the future of France is at stake. Aided by King's Musketeers Athos, Porthos and Aramis, he faces the machinations of villainous Cardinal Richelieu and Milady de Winter, while falling in love with Constance, the Queen's confidante.
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The Plough
Title: The Plough
Character: Louis
Released: March 8, 2023
Type: Movie
Three siblings comprise the latest generation in a family of puppeteers led with passion by their father. They are magicians of a kind, but can barely make ends meet, working mainly for the love of their craft. Their grandmother contributes too, not only as a seamstress but also as a repository of memories and wisdom. A tragic event will challenge the desire of each sibling to carry on.
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Title: Beau geste
Character: Self
Released: January 22, 2023
Type: TV
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Scarlet
Title: Scarlet
Character: Jean
Released: January 11, 2023
Type: Movie
A French widower and WWI veteran returns home after the war to raise his newborn daughter.
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Forever Young
Title: Forever Young
Character: Patrice Chéreau
Released: November 16, 2022
Type: Movie
At the end of the 1980s, Stella, Victor, Adèle and Etienne are 20 years old. They take the entrance exam to the famous acting school created by Patrice Chéreau and Pierre Romans at the Théâtre des Amandiers in Nanterre. Launched at full speed into life, passion, and love, together they will experience the turning point of their lives, but also their first tragedy.
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Coma
Title: Coma
Character: Dr. Ballard (voice)
Released: November 16, 2022
Type: Movie
The moment a teenage girl begins to spread her wings coincides with a global health crisis. Locked indoors, she experiences life in a state of limbo. In between reveries and video chats with her friends, she follows an influencer named Patricia Coma. A device she buys from her, called a revelator, leads her to question how much free will she actually has.
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Caravaggio's Shadow
Title: Caravaggio's Shadow
Character: The Shadow
Released: November 3, 2022
Type: Movie
The Catholic Church secretly investigates Caravaggio as the Pope weighs whether to grant him clemency for killing a rival.
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The Innocent
Title: The Innocent
Character: Abel Lefranc
Released: October 12, 2022
Type: Movie
Sylvie, a nearly sixty-year-old woman, has fallen in love with Michel, a thug she marries in prison. The couple dream of starting again with a clean slate by opening a flower shop. But Sylvie’s son Abel, convinced that Michel will fall into a life of crime, disapproves of this relationship.
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Des Amandiers aux Amandiers
Title: Des Amandiers aux Amandiers
Character: Self
Released: July 9, 2022
Type: Movie
A free and intimate portrait behind the scenes of Valeria Bruni Tedeschi's creation. In front of the camera, she transmits to today’s young actors the memory of the 1980s.
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The Crusade
Title: The Crusade
Character: Abel
Released: December 22, 2021
Type: Movie
Abel, Marianne and their 13-year-old son Joseph live together in Paris. Their everyday existence is thrown into turmoil when Abel and Marianne discover that Joseph has secretly sold valuables from the family home to finance a mysterious ecological project he and his friends have in Africa. They’re about to save the planet.
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COCORICA
Title: COCORICA
Released: December 9, 2021
Type: Movie
Frida, a young hen, wants to be a singer. However, her village is directed by strong rules: only chickens are allowed to sing, hens should be brood. In order to escape her fate, she decides to rebel and become a singer.
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Our Men
Title: Our Men
Character: Maxime
Released: October 6, 2021
Type: Movie
They come from all over the world but they have one thing in common : The Foreign Legion, their new family. Our Men tells these stories : stories of women who struggle to keep their love fire burning; stories of men who leave for battle; stories of loving couples on hostile ground.
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The Story of My Wife
Title: The Story of My Wife
Character: Dedin
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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DNA
Title: DNA
Character: François
Released: December 10, 2020
Type: Movie
DNA revolves around a woman with close ties to a beloved Algerian grandfather who protected her from a toxic home life as a child. When he dies, it triggers a deep identity crisis as tensions between her extended family members escalate revealing new depths of resentment and bitterness.
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Rifkin's Festival
Title: Rifkin's Festival
Character: Philippe
Released: October 1, 2020
Type: Movie
The story of a married American couple who go to the San Sebastian Film Festival. They get caught up in the magic of the festival, the beauty and charm of Spain and the fantasy of movies. She has an affair with a brilliant French movie director, and he falls in love with a beautiful Spanish woman who lives there.
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Little Women
Title: Little Women
Character: Friedrich Bhaer
Released: December 25, 2019
Type: Movie
Four sisters come of age in America in the aftermath of the Civil War.
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An Officer and a Spy
Title: An Officer and a Spy
Character: Alfred Dreyfus
Released: September 30, 2019
Type: Movie
In 1894, French Captain Alfred Dreyfus is wrongfully convicted of treason and sentenced to life imprisonment at the Devil’s Island penal colony.
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Funan
Title: Funan
Character: Khuon (voice)
Released: March 6, 2019
Type: Movie
Cambodia, once the ancient kingdom of Funan, April 17th, 1975. The entire country falls under the tyranny of Angkar, the communist party of the Khmer Rouge. The cities are abandoned, the population is thrown to the roads and forced to walk towards an uncertain future…
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A Faithful Man
Title: A Faithful Man
Character: Abel
Released: December 26, 2018
Type: Movie
Marianne leaves Abel for Paul, his best friend and the father of her unborn child. Eight years later, Paul dies and Marianne returns to Abel. However, things have changed for the both of them and feelings of jealousy surround their new relationship.
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At Eternity's Gate
Title: At Eternity's Gate
Character: Aurier's Article (voice)
Released: November 15, 2018
Type: Movie
Famed but tormented artist Vincent van Gogh spends his final years in Arles, France, painting masterworks of the natural world that surrounds him.
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One Nation, One King
Title: One Nation, One King
Character: Robespierre
Released: September 26, 2018
Type: Movie
„Un peuple et son roi" crosses the destinies of the men and women of the population, and those of historical figures. Their meeting place is the newly founded National Assembly. At the heart of the story lie the fate of the king and the birth of the French Republic.
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Godard Mon Amour
Title: Godard Mon Amour
Character: Jean-Luc Godard
Released: June 24, 2017
Type: Movie
In 1967, during the making of “La Chinoise,” film director Jean-Luc Godard falls in love with 19-year-old actress Anne Wiazemsky and marries her.
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Ismael's Ghosts
Title: Ismael's Ghosts
Character: Ivan Dedalus
Released: May 17, 2017
Type: Movie
Just as the disheveled and alcoholic filmmaker Ismaël embarks on a difficult new film project, his life is sent into a tailspin. His wife Carlotta, presumed dead for 20 years, come crashing back into his life creating chaos in his work and his current romantic relationship with the starry-eyed astronomer Sylvia.
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Walkers
Title: Walkers
Character: (archive footage)
Released: May 15, 2017
Type: Movie
a montage of a motif in Philippe Garrel's Cinema: walking.
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False Confessions
Title: False Confessions
Character: Dorante
Released: April 13, 2017
Type: Movie
Dorante, an impoverished young man, is taken on as a secretary by Araminte, a rich widow with whom he is secretly in love. The valet Dubois does all he can to get Araminte to fall in love with Dorante. Following his staging of Marivaux’s comedy at the Odéon theater, Luc Bondy turns the whole theater building into a film studio, placing his actors in the foyer, under the stage, in the kitchens, using the most unusual and unexpected spots to invent a new dynamic between theater and film.
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Planetarium
Title: Planetarium
Character: Fernand Prouvé
Released: November 16, 2016
Type: Movie
In 1930s France, two sisters who are thought to be able to communicate with ghosts meet a visionary producer while performing in Paris.
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From the Land of the Moon
Title: From the Land of the Moon
Character: André Sauvage
Released: October 19, 2016
Type: Movie
In 1950s France, a free-spirited woman trapped in an arranged marriage falls in love with an injured veteran of the Indochinese War.
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My King
Title: My King
Character: Solal
Released: October 21, 2015
Type: Movie
Tony is admitted to a rehabilitation center after a serious ski accident. Dependent on the medical staff and pain relievers, she takes time to look back on a turbulent relationship that she experienced with Georgio.
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Two Friends
Title: Two Friends
Character: Abel
Released: September 23, 2015
Type: Movie
Mona, a prisoner on work release, meets Clément, a shy actor. Desperate to impress Mona, Clément recruits his extroverted friend, Abel, to help. When Mona becomes more interested in Abel, it sets off a conflict between the two friends. Meanwhile, Mona attempts to keep her past hidden.
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In the Shadow of Women
Title: In the Shadow of Women
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: May 27, 2015
Type: Movie
Pierre and Manon are poor. They make documentaries with nothing and they live by doing odd jobs. Pierre meets a young intern, Elisabeth, and she becomes his mistress. But Pierre will not leave Manon for Elisabeth; he wants to keep both.
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Title: The Bureau
Character: Andrea Tassone dit « Mille Sabords »
Released: April 27, 2015
Type: TV
Within the DGSE (General Directorate for External Security), a department called the Office Of Legends (BDL) forms and remote pilot the most important agents of the French intelligence services: Clandestine. Immersion in hostile country, their mission is to identify individuals who may be recruited as sources of information. Operating "under caption", that is to say in a fabricated identity from scratch, they live for many years in a permanent duplicity. Our hero just returned from a clandestine mission six years in Damascus. But contrary to what is required by safety rules, he does not abandon his legend and the identity under which he lived in Syria, thus putting in danger the whole system.
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Astragal
Title: Astragal
Character: Photographer
Released: April 8, 2015
Type: Movie
On a night of April 1957, Albertine, a brillant and rebel 19-year-old girl, jumps from the wall of the prison where she’s serving a sentence for a holdup. In her fall, a bone from her ankle breaks: the astragal. She is rescued by Julien, a justice fugitive, and so is born a burning passion between them. He takes her to Paris and hides her. But while he leads his gangster life here and there, the young woman struggles for her freedom and against the wounds inflicted by Julien’s absence, and writes poetry.
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Saint Laurent
Title: Saint Laurent
Character: Jacques de Bascher
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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Jealousy
Title: Jealousy
Character: Louis
Released: December 4, 2013
Type: Movie
The professional and emotional cross-currents between two romantically entwined theater actors played by the director’s son Louis and Anna Mouglalis.
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A Castle in Italy
Title: A Castle in Italy
Character: Nathan
Released: October 30, 2013
Type: Movie
Louise meets Nathan, her dreams resurface. It's also the story of her ailing brother, their mother, and the destiny of a leading family of wealthy Italian industrialists. The story of a family falling apart, a world coming to an end and love beginning.
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Les Coquillettes
Title: Les Coquillettes
Character: Himself
Released: March 20, 2013
Type: Movie
Three female friends recall their misadventures (more sexual than cinematical) attending the Locarno Film Festival.
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The Rule of Three
Title: The Rule of Three
Character: Louis
Released: June 8, 2012
Type: Movie
Louis takes care of Vincent but expects that Marie manage it alone. The three of them spend an afternoon together and at the end of the day, they think the same thing: what's the point if I'm alone?
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Sleepless Nights Stories
Title: Sleepless Nights Stories
Character: Self
Released: December 15, 2011
Type: Movie
Director Jonas Mekas travels through New York nights, through apartments, studios, backstage rooms, galleries, bars, and clubs. Encountering old acquaintances like Ken and Flo Jacobs, Yoko Ono, friends, brothers and sisters, sons and daughters. Mr. Mekas begins the film with the words 'I can't sleep.' Who hasn't been in this situation? Sleepy and yet wide awake at the same time, you find yourself in the world of those exhausted from the day's exertions, the drunk, the relaxed, the dancing, the brooding, the mourning, and the pensive.
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A Burning Hot Summer
Title: A Burning Hot Summer
Character: Frédéric
Released: September 28, 2011
Type: Movie
Paul reflects on the summer he met Angèle and Frédéric as he watches his friend being laid to rest.
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Beloved
Title: Beloved
Character: Clément
Released: August 17, 2011
Type: Movie
From Paris in the 1960s to London in the first decade of the third millennium, Madeleine and her daughter Véra flit from one amorous adventure to the next, living for the moment and taking all the opportunities that life offers. But not every love affair is without its consequences, its upsets and its disappointments. As time goes by and gnaws away at one’s deepest feelings, love becomes a harder game to play.
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Heartbeats
Title: Heartbeats
Character: Guest at the Final Evening
Released: September 29, 2010
Type: Movie
Francis is a young gay man, Marie is a young straight woman and the two of them are best friends -- until the day the gorgeous Nicolas walks into a Montreal coffee shop. The two friends, instantly and equally infatuated, compete for Nicolas' indeterminate affections, a conflict that climaxes when the trio visit the vacation home of Nicolas' mother. The frothy comedy unfolds through narrative, fantasy sequences and confessional monologues.
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Diarchy
Title: Diarchy
Character: Luc
Released: August 7, 2010
Type: Movie
Giano and Luc are traveling through the woods when a storm breaks, forcing them to take shelter in Luc's villa. Gradually and insidiously, a competition emerges between them, with terrible consequences.
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The Three-way Wedding
Title: The Three-way Wedding
Character: Théo
Released: April 21, 2010
Type: Movie
When a famous playwright invites the cast of his new play - including his enchanting assistant, his ex-wife and her new lover - to his country estate, a series of seductions and surprising alliances ensue.
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Making Plans for Lena
Title: Making Plans for Lena
Character: Simon
Released: September 2, 2009
Type: Movie
Ever since she broke up with Nigel, Lena soldiers on through life as best she can with her two kids. She valiantly overcomes the obstacles put in her way. But she has yet to confront the worst of them: Her unstoppable family has decided, by any means necessary, to make her happy.
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The Beautiful Person
Title: The Beautiful Person
Character: Nemours
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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Frontier of Dawn
Title: Frontier of Dawn
Character: François
Released: May 22, 2008
Type: Movie
A celebrity is caught by her husband with a young lover.
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Choosing Love
Title: Choosing Love
Character: Pascal
Released: January 23, 2008
Type: Movie
In Paris, a university student attempts to lead a double life - in love with her French boyfriend Pascal, and staying true to her Algerian family, particular her strict, traditional father. In Algiers, her cousin Yacine leads a parallel life, preparing to leave his girlfriend to move to Paris.
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Actresses
Title: Actresses
Character: Éric
Released: December 26, 2007
Type: Movie
Marcelline is an actress. Forty, single and childless, she begins rehearsals for Turgenev’s A Month in the Country. Denis, the director, admires her greatly and promises he’ll make her happy on stage — she will shine. But things don’t go to plan.
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Love Songs
Title: Love Songs
Character: Ismaël Bénoliel
Released: May 23, 2007
Type: Movie
Ismael and Julie, in the hope of sparking their stalled relationship, enter a playful yet emotionally laced threesome with Alice. When tragedy strikes, these young Parisians are forced to deal with the fragility of life and love. For Ismael, this means negotiating through the advances of Julie's sister and a young college student – one of which may offer him redemption.
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In Paris
Title: In Paris
Character: Jonathan
Released: October 4, 2006
Type: Movie
Paul, depressed from his recent break-up with Anna, returns home to Paris and moves back in with his divorced father and amorous younger brother, Jonathan. While his carefree sibling and doting father try in vain to cheer him up, a visit from his mother seems to be the only thing that brings him joy. When Paul is then left in the house to brood and talk to one of his brother's girlfriends, he begins to realize that while things haven't gone according to plan, one can always find something to live for.
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A Curtain Raiser
Title: A Curtain Raiser
Character: Bruno
Released: August 7, 2006
Type: Movie
Bruno, a young Frenchman, is frustrated by his girlfriend's constant lack of punctuality. He decides to end their relationship the next time she is late again.
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Regular Lovers
Title: Regular Lovers
Character: François Dervieux
Released: September 30, 2005
Type: Movie
1968 and 1969 in Paris: during and after the student and trade union revolt. François is 20, a poet, dodging military service. He takes to the barricades, but won't throw a Molotov cocktail at the police. He smokes opium and talks about revolution with his friend, Antoine, who has an inheritance and a flat where François can stay. François meets Lilie, a sculptor who works at a foundry to support herself. They fall in love. A year passes; François continues to write, talk, smoke, and be with Lilie. Opportunities come to Lilie: what will she and François do?
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Ma mère
Title: Ma mère
Character: Pierre
Released: May 19, 2004
Type: Movie
After his father's death, a young man is introduced to a world of hedonism and depravity by his amoral mother.
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Cinema, Sex, Politics: Bertolucci Makes ‘The Dreamers’
Title: Cinema, Sex, Politics: Bertolucci Makes ‘The Dreamers’
Character: Self
Released: March 1, 2004
Type: Movie
The making of The Dreamers, its background and relation to the May 1968 student riots in Paris.
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The Dreamers
Title: The Dreamers
Character: Theo
Released: September 1, 2003
Type: Movie
When Isabelle and Theo invite Matthew to stay with them, what begins as a casual friendship ripens into a sensual voyage of discovery and desire in which nothing is off limits and everything is possible.
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The War in Paris
Title: The War in Paris
Released: May 22, 2002
Type: Movie
In Paris, in 1943, Jules, a 19-year-old Jew, lived without an ideal, tossed about by circumstances. He becomes in turn a traitor then a hero. Thomas, his fifteen-year-old brother, wants to act and fight in resistance.
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This Is My Body
Title: This Is My Body
Character: Antoine
Released: August 29, 2001
Type: Movie
Gifted student Antoine goes against his family’s wishes and accepts the lead role in a controversial director’s film. He learns that the role had previously been offered to a young man who committed suicide after an on-set affair – and events conspire to draw Antoine towards the same lover.
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Emergency Kisses
Title: Emergency Kisses
Character: Lo
Released: May 31, 1989
Type: Movie
The familiar conflicts of a film director planning to make a movie about his life and the confrontation he has with his wife, an actress who was turned down for such project in which she wanted to play herself.