Jonathan Zaccaï

Jonathan Zaccaï

Born: July 22, 1970
in Brussels, Belgium
Jonathan Zaccaï (born 22 July 1970) is a Belgian actor, film director and screenwriter. He is the nephew of René Kalisky.

His acting credits include The Beat That My Heart Skipped, A Distant Neighborhood, The True Story of My Life in Rouen, The Role of Her Life, They Came Back. He received the Magritte Award for Best Actor for Private Lessons.

Movies for Jonathan Zaccaï...

Les Malvenus
Title: Les Malvenus
Character: Luc Ancelin
Released: April 17, 2024
Type: Movie
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Title: Monsieur Spade
Character: Philippe Saint-André
Released: January 14, 2024
Type: TV
Detective Sam Spade is pulled out of his tranquil retirement in France to investigate a series of brutal murders.
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Title: La Tribu
Character: Martin
Released: December 5, 2023
Type: TV
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Life Lessons
Title: Life Lessons
Character: Vincent Lartigue
Released: May 10, 2023
Type: Movie
Noémie, an experienced screenwriter, meets up with Vincent, her first childhood love, at the film school where he is now the director. Through an extraordinary masterclass where intimacy rubs shoulders with the universal and reality flirts with fiction, Noémie will teach Vincent and his students that the art of writing a screenplay is the art of living passionately.
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On the Wandering Paths
Title: On the Wandering Paths
Character: Arnaud, un ami de Pierre
Released: March 22, 2023
Type: Movie
Pierre, a famous explorer and writer, travels regularly through the world. Someday, climbing a hotel frontage while drunk, he falls from high and into a deep coma. When he awakes, he has difficulties walking but, against everyone's advices, he decides to walk through France, following forgotten pathways...
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Un petit miracle
Title: Un petit miracle
Character: Antoine
Released: January 25, 2023
Type: Movie
Nothing goes well for Juliette! The school where she used to teach has burned down, and her unique class will have to be dispatched to the four corners of the department. To avoid this, she proposes a surprising solution: to install her class at the Poppies, the local old people's home, the only place that can accommodate them for the time of the work. For the children as well as for the residents, the cohabitation will not be easy, but will transform them forever. Inspired by a true story.
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Title: Serial Lover
Character: Guillaume / Amaury / Nathan / Roman
Released: July 29, 2022
Type: TV
Camille's life changes when the man she loves disappears overnight after emptying his bank account.
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Downton Abbey: A New Era
Title: Downton Abbey: A New Era
Character: Montmirail
Released: April 27, 2022
Type: Movie
The Crawley family goes on a grand journey to the south of France to uncover the mystery of the dowager countess's newly inherited villa.
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(S)He
Title: (S)He
Character: Cédric
Released: November 1, 2021
Type: Movie
(S)HE is the story of a transgender child named Juju, a girl born into a boy’s body. With the onset of puberty, JuJu’s discomfort explodes. Our film follows a child’s struggle to get her parents and friends to accept her true gender, as she transitions from boy to girl. But in this tiny rural town, where everyone knows everyone else, it’s an impossible challenge. Juju will have to move in with her mother while her parents break up. Juju becomes Emma, and sings in a rock band at her new high school. With everyone seeing her as a girl, she’ starts to blossom. But as her popularity grows, social networking sit’s rekindle the nightmare she thought she’d left behind...
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The Man in the Basement
Title: The Man in the Basement
Character: David Sandberg
Released: October 13, 2021
Type: Movie
A Parisian couple decides to sell an unsanitary basement in their building. A very ordinary, nondescript man, Mr. Fonzic, shows up to buy it. Nothing unusual there, until the man moves into the cellar and makes it his permanent residence. The couple tries desperately to cancel the sale but to no avail. Worse, Mr. Fonzic becomes a threat to their family as he befriends their teenage daughter on whom he seems to exert a perverted influence.
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Title: (S)He
Character: Cédric
Released: November 19, 2020
Type: TV
(S)HE is the story of a transgender child named Juju, a girl born into a boy’s body. With the onset of puberty, JuJu’s discomfort explodes. Our film follows a child’s struggle to get her parents and friends to accept her true gender, as she transitions from boy to girl. But in this tiny rural town, where everyone knows everyone else, it’s an impossible challenge. Juju will have to move in with her mother while her parents break up. Juju becomes Emma, and sings in a rock band at her new high school. With everyone seeing her as a girl, she’ starts to blossom. But as her popularity grows, social networking sit’s rekindle the nightmare she thought she’d left behind...
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The Morning After
Title: The Morning After
Character: Anto Lucciani
Released: August 19, 2020
Type: Movie
Fed up with her cheating husband, Louise, 45, takes off for a weekend in Corsica. But after a wild night of unbridled passion with a man who winds up dead, Louise is unwittingly mistaken for his secret, longtime girlfriend by his Corsican fearsome but loving mother.
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Title: Unfaithful
Character: Matteo Sandrelli
Released: January 6, 2019
Type: TV
The story of Emma Sandrelli, a doctor who is close to her patients and caring mother, whose life is about to explode when she learns that her husband has had an affair with a young woman for several months. Then begins for her a real descent into hell that will lead her very, very far... Adaptation of the British series "Doctor Foster."
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Remi, Nobody's Boy
Title: Remi, Nobody's Boy
Character: Jérôme Barberin
Released: December 12, 2018
Type: Movie
At the age of 10 years, young Rémi is snatched from his adoptive mother and entrusted to the signor Vitalis, a mysterious itinerant musician. Has its hard sides - he will learn the harsh life of acrobat and sing to win his bread. Accompanied by the faithful dog capi and of the small monkey Joli-Coeur, his long trip through France, made for meetings, friendships and mutual assistance, leads him to the secret of its origins.
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Sink or Swim
Title: Sink or Swim
Character: Thibault
Released: October 24, 2018
Type: Movie
40-year-old Bertrand has been suffering from depression for the last two years and is barely able to keep his head above water. Despite the medication he gulps down all day, every day, and his wife's encouragement, he is unable to find any meaning in his life. Curiously, he will end up finding this sense of purpose at the swimming pool, by joining an all-male synchronised swimming team.
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The White Crow
Title: The White Crow
Character: Serge Lifar
Released: August 31, 2018
Type: Movie
The story of Rudolf Nureyev, whose escape to the West stunned the world at the height of the Cold War. With his magnetic presence, Nureyev emerged as ballet’s most famous star, a wild and beautiful dancer limited by the world of 1950s Leningrad. His flirtation with Western artists and ideas led him into a high-stakes game of cat and mouse with the KGB.
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Wildcats
Title: Wildcats
Character: Elvis Egger
Released: September 27, 2017
Type: Movie
Orphan, Oskar lives with Elvis and Fanny Egger, his guardians. Oskar is waiting for one thing, the majority, to finally be able to go to Zimbabwe and start a new life. While Oskar strives to raise money to get there, Elvis takes Oskar's success and makes it cost him to graduate. The balance of power is becoming more and more tense, swinging into a violence that will push Oskar to definitively abandon childhood, and Elvis, to fall the mask of his ambition and his madness.
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The Poisoning Angel
Title: The Poisoning Angel
Character: Le juge Vannier
Released: January 18, 2017
Type: Movie
In 1800, Brittany is on its knees, overwhelmed by the regime in place and by the omnipotent clergy. It founders in an economic slump without end in sight and, in the middle of all this, a young, suffering girl pushes back as best she can. She is known as the "Poisoning Angel," an isolated child, mistreated by life and rocked by morbid thoughts. She will become one of the world's most notorious serial killers and will sow death, perhaps merely to be looked at and loved.
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Miséricorde
Title: Miséricorde
Character: Thomas Berger
Released: December 11, 2016
Type: Movie
Thomas, a European, has come to Québec for some recreational fishing on his own. He then embarks on the road leading to the north of Canada, chasing after a black truck that killed the son of a young Amerindian woman. This Swiss cop in exile wants justice to be done. He has, however, other reasons for wanting to do the right thing.
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Title: Intrusion
Character: Marc/Philippe
Released: May 28, 2015
Type: TV
Renowned pianist Philippe Kessler is preparing for an important recital. But recently, sounds and images seem deformed around him, as if one reality was superimposed on another. Worrying that he is going mad, he gradually withdraws into himself. The evening of the recital, he collapses at his piano...
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Title: The Bureau
Character: Raymond Sisteron
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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Cerise
Title: Cerise
Character: Cerise's Father
Released: April 1, 2015
Type: Movie
Cerise is fourteen years old but she looks twenty. Cerise grew up on the outskirts, but now she's exiled to Ukraine. Cerise wears excessive amounts of makeup, but she still has a little girl's dreams. Cerise doesn't know her father, even though she's going to have to live with him. Cerise has only ever thought about herself and now she finds herself in the middle of a revolution.
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French Dolls
Title: French Dolls
Character: Stéphane
Released: November 26, 2014
Type: Movie
Louise, Sam, Lili. Three women who don't know each other but whom will be forced to meet, get together, and compare themselves to each other by the wild will of evolution.
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Title: Hôtel de la plage
Character: Martin
Released: July 16, 2014
Type: TV
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Je te survivrai
Title: Je te survivrai
Released: May 28, 2014
Type: Movie
Forty year old Jo is talented a property broker, but a complete catastrophe as a family man, father and husband, and with a neighbor he can't stand. one day he does something he never should have done.
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Paper Souls
Title: Paper Souls
Character: Nathan
Released: December 25, 2013
Type: Movie
A funeral-speech writer gets a new lease on life when he meets a widow who commissions him to write a piece for her 8-year-old son.
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Chambre noire
Title: Chambre noire
Character: Jeff
Released: May 23, 2013
Type: Movie
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Sous le figuier
Title: Sous le figuier
Character: Christophe
Released: March 20, 2013
Type: Movie
Nathalie, Christophe and Joëlle are in the midst of an existential crisis. Brought together by Selma, 95 and seriously ill, they will spend a memorable summer on the banks of the Moselle. How ironic that the one whom they had intended to help to die should help them to live...
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Cornouaille
Title: Cornouaille
Character: Fabrice
Released: August 15, 2012
Type: Movie
A young woman inherits her family's historic home on the coast of Brittany, a house she has not been to since her father died there when she was age 12.
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Yann Piat: A Chronicle of Murder
Title: Yann Piat: A Chronicle of Murder
Character: Pascal Felli
Released: April 16, 2012
Type: Movie
February 25, 1994, Yann Piat is executed at point blank range by two gunmen on a motorcycle. Its first victories for the FN in 1986 to his ambition in 1994 to take the town hall of Hyères under the banner of the UDF, Yann Piat methods and a speech that upset both policies, businessmen, and middle.
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Play It Like Godard
Title: Play It Like Godard
Character: Journaliste
Released: February 8, 2012
Type: Movie
Jean-Christophe Kern, known as JC, is not a teenager like any other: he won the Palme d’Or at the age of 15, the Cesar at 16. This year, he is trying to graduate from high school.
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If You Die, I'll Kill You
Title: If You Die, I'll Kill You
Character: Philippe
Released: March 23, 2011
Type: Movie
In Paris' cosmopolitan and colorful 10th arrondissement, Philippe, who's fresh out of prison, crosses paths with Avdal, a Kurd who is trying to track down an Iraqi war criminal. Avdal, who dreams of staying in France, plans to bring his fiancee Siba to Paris. She's due to arrive in the next few days. The two men strike up a friendship and when Avdal dies suddenly and unexpectedly, Philippe finds himself left to organize the funeral arrangements. What should he do with the body? Siba arrives in Paris, and soon learns that Avdal has died. She is taken in by a group of Kurdish men and before long she also meets Philippe - all of whom are quite smitten by her beauty. Meanwhile, Avdal's father Cheto, a devout Muslim, comes to Paris to grieve for his son. He intends to force Siba to return to her homeland, but the young woman has now had a taste of freedom.
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With Love... from the Age of Reason
Title: With Love... from the Age of Reason
Character: Philibert
Released: July 28, 2010
Type: Movie
The day she turns 40, Marguerite Flora, a successful rep for a nuclear power company, begins receiving letters she'd sent to herself at age seven. The letters tell her what to do if her life hasn't turned out the way she thought it should, when she was living in poverty with her mother and brother in a small village in southern France. She decides to go back to her birthplace to get the lawyer to stop the letters, but also to visit her childhood sweetheart and her long-forgotten brother, in order to find peace within herself.
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A Distant Neighborhood
Title: A Distant Neighborhood
Character: Bruno Verniaz
Released: May 20, 2010
Type: Movie
Thomas, a father in his fifties, returns by chance to the town where he grew up. He collapses and wakes up forty years earlier in the body of his teenage self. Thrown back into his past, Thomas will not only have to re-live his first love, but also try to understand the reasons for his father’s mysterious departure. Can you change the past by living it again?
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Robin Hood
Title: Robin Hood
Character: King Philip of France
Released: May 12, 2010
Type: Movie
When soldier Robin happens upon the dying Robert of Loxley, he promises to return the man's sword to his family in Nottingham. There, he assumes Robert's identity; romances his widow, Marion; and draws the ire of the town's sheriff and King John's henchman, Godfrey.
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White Snow
Title: White Snow
Character: Abel
Released: March 11, 2010
Type: Movie
Director Christophe Blanc delivers a fast-past thriller set to a background of Finland's stunning landscape. High-end car dealership owner Maxime is pursued by Finnish gangsters over unsatisfactory cars his dead partner sold them.
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A NY Thing
Title: A NY Thing
Character: Antoine
Released: September 19, 2009
Type: Movie
Masquerading as another man, Antoine flies to New York for a three-day stay and promptly falls in love with Alice, who's dating someone else. When that doesn't work out for him, Antoine turns to the city itself for inspiration.
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Simon Konianski
Title: Simon Konianski
Character: Simon
Released: July 29, 2009
Type: Movie
Simon, 35, has returned to live temporarily with his father. They make life unbearable for each other. To add spice to this situation, Uncle Maurice and Aunt Mala, Ernest's brother and sister, meddle in everything and, notably, try to find a "nice little Jewish girl" for Simon to marry. When Ernest passes away, Simon fulfils his father's last request: bury him in the village where he was born, in the depths of Ukraine. And so Simon finds himself caught up in an event-packed road movie in the company of his paranoid old uncle, his aunt who nags him endlessly about his "Goy dancer", his six-years-old son, his father's body and his ghost, and also a rabbit. Not to mention his ex who hassles him by phone. The journey will be nothing like a cruise down the Nile!
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Private Lessons
Title: Private Lessons
Character: Pierre
Released: January 21, 2009
Type: Movie
An aspiring tennis player is taken under the wing of an established player as his family life falls apart.
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La vie des bêtes
Title: La vie des bêtes
Character: Cédric
Released: January 30, 2008
Type: Movie
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Blindfold
Title: Blindfold
Character: Théo
Released: January 9, 2008
Type: Movie
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Room of Death
Title: Room of Death
Character: Vigo
Released: November 14, 2007
Type: Movie
While on a joyride with the headlights turned off, two men hit and kill another man carrying a satchel full of money. The two men decide to take the money and throw the body into a pond and bury the money in a coal hill. The next morning the police discover the body of a kidnapped 12-year blind girl, Melody, in a warehouse near the site of the hit-and-run. They determine that the kidnapper saw the girl's father bringing the ransom to him and also witnessed the hit-and-run and the men stealing the ransom.
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Vent mauvais
Title: Vent mauvais
Character: Franck
Released: February 10, 2007
Type: Movie
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You and I
Title: You and I
Character: Marc
Released: March 8, 2006
Type: Movie
In Paris, Ariane and Lena are sisters. Ariane writes photo novellas for the magazine "Toi et Moi." She's emotional and her long-time boyfriend, Farid, has her in a state because he won't propose, won't ask her to live with him, and often is unavailable. Lena is a cellist, quiet and circumspect in life and in her playing. She lives without passion with her boyfriend François; they're talking about having a baby.
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In His Hands
Title: In His Hands
Character: Fabrice
Released: September 11, 2005
Type: Movie
In Lille, Claire Gauthier is an ordinary married woman with a young daughter that works in an insurance company analyzing losses of insured properties. When the single veterinary Laurent Kessler claims damage in his basement caused by a flooding due to water leakage, Claire resolves the situation favorably for him. The weird Laurent visits Claire in her office successively, inviting her for drinks and lunch, and they get close to each other. Meanwhile, a serial killer is terrorizing Lille, killing women with a scalpel. Claire feels a great attraction for Laurent, who has an unusual behavior in her apartment. When Claire sees a scalpel in the pocket of Laurent's jacket, she fears him, but still loves him.
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The Beat That My Heart Skipped
Title: The Beat That My Heart Skipped
Character: Fabrice
Released: March 16, 2005
Type: Movie
Like his father, Tom is a real estate agent who makes his money from dirty, and sometimes brutal, deals. But a chance encounter prompts him to take up the piano and become a concert pianist. He auditions with the help of a beautiful, young virtuoso pianist who cannot speak French - music is their only exchange. But pressures from the ugly world of his day job soon become more than he can handle.
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The Best Day of My Life
Title: The Best Day of My Life
Character: Arthur
Released: January 5, 2005
Type: Movie
Not too excited Arthur asks marriage Lola. What should have been a quiet ceremony evolves in something bigger, expensive and overwhelming as family is involved. The organization of the best day of their lives threatens to destroy them.
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They Came Back
Title: They Came Back
Character: Mathieu
Released: October 27, 2004
Type: Movie
The lives of the residents of a small French town are changed when thousands of the recently dead inexplicably come back to life and try to integrate themselves into society that has changed for them.
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The Role of Her Life
Title: The Role of Her Life
Character: Mathias Curval
Released: June 16, 2004
Type: Movie
A humble copy editor becomes a personal assistant to her favorite actress and eventually loses herself both in the actress' demands and her own ego.
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Les parallèles
Title: Les parallèles
Character: Benjamin Robert
Released: May 24, 2004
Type: Movie
Paris, today. A corrupt businessman, Duchey, returns to France to confront the justice of his country. But his return to his homeland will cause the turmoil of three individuals.
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The Rashevski Tango
Title: The Rashevski Tango
Character: Jonathan Rashevski, le fils de Simon
Released: September 3, 2003
Type: Movie
Adolphe 'Dolfo' Rashevski travels to Israel with grandson Ric, but his brother, orthodox rabbi Samuel 'Shmouel, refuses to come attend their fellow Auschwitz survivor sister Rosa's funeral. Back in their home, the whole well-integrated family and their 'gojim' (non-Jewish and would-be) partners regularly wrestle with the meaning of Jewish blood, traditions and religion. For one it seems the way to gain a wife, for others the bomb under or the obstacle for a marriage. Yet love tends to conquer all but death.
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My Life on Ice
Title: My Life on Ice
Character: Laurent
Released: February 26, 2003
Type: Movie
Etienne is crazy about ice skating and videoing his daily life with a digital camera. He records his mother, friends, and geography teacher. Initially his intention is to setup a date between his mother and his teacher, however, he starts to realize that he is infatuated with the teacher himself.
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Seaside
Title: Seaside
Character: Paul
Released: December 4, 2002
Type: Movie
Seaside takes place in a small coastal town on the Bay of Somme. The year-round inhabitants find ways to make their lives work; Paul, a lifeguard in the summer, works at the grocery all winter. His mother, Rose (Ogier) likes to play the slots just about anytime; his girlfriend Marie works in the local factory - the town's biggest business - but watching the summertime vacationers each year just makes her increasingly curious about what else might be out there. From these and several other stories, aided by close, revealing observations, we see a community perched between transition and stasis.
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A Hell of a Day
Title: A Hell of a Day
Character: Pierre
Released: October 24, 2001
Type: Movie
Some days turn out to be simply unforgettable. For Marie, it all starts with a pregnancy test… that proves positive, a car accident and being fired from her job... For Hortense, mobile phone in hand, the frantic quest for sexual satisfaction begins in a traffic jam... For both Luis and Maurice, the unexpected appearance of a loved one pitches them into a world of dreams and nightmares. While some of the characters know each other, others come into contact by chance. One woman profits from all this, the other is shattered. One will have gone looking for trouble, the other will have asked for nothing. There'll be no fatalities.
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Title: Burger Quiz
Character: Self
Released: August 27, 2001
Type: TV
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Little Darling
Title: Little Darling
Character: Victor
Released: May 31, 2000
Type: Movie
Thirty year old virgin Sybille meets the man of her dreams. Or is he?
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Tørst - Framtidens forbrytelser
Title: Tørst - Framtidens forbrytelser
Character: Olivier
Released: February 26, 1999
Type: Movie
Anthology film based on three short stories by Knut Hamsun, updated to modern times.
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Title: Highlander: The Series
Character: Louis
Released: October 3, 1992
Type: TV
Duncan MacLeod cannot die -- he is a 400-year-old immortal, who has seen his share of humanity's history. Still, he risks his life in battle against other immortals and tries to save people from harm.
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The Children's Rebellion
Title: The Children's Rebellion
Character: Grande Gueule
Released: April 22, 1992
Type: Movie
In the 19th century, children -- particularly the children of the poor -- were considered to be an exploitable resource of docile and cheap labor. Anyone who had the effrontery to steal so much as a portion of a loaf of bread for any reason would (at the very least) go to prison, regardless of their age. However, people of conscience were beginning to protest against this situation. The story takes place in a prison for children where conditions are particularly harsh. The warden is a thick-headed martinet who demands complete compliance with the rules, or the children will be brutally dealt with. The assistant warden is a more modern man, and is appalled by the whole institution, but seeks to begin by reforming it. To that end, he has invited a journalist to come and see the conditions that prevail there, in the hopes that she will rouse public opinion against at least this one form of injustice.
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Guilty of Innocence
Title: Guilty of Innocence
Character: Maximilien Bardo
Released: February 10, 1992
Type: Movie
This sumptuously photographed period drama is set in 1791 Vienna. Maximilian Bardo, an opportunistic 18-year old Viennese man with aspirations to rise above his bourgeois upbringing, looks for a chance to shoehorn himself into the nobility. His hopes lead him to the castle of a wealthy inventor, Alexander Plant. It is here that a strange story is played out, as Maximilian, full of naive illusions and innocent ideals of what it means to be wealthy and noble, quickly loses his innocence. Falling prey to the jaded aristocrats in residence, he is cruelly initiated into their decadent games.
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Title: Kabul
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: TV