Émilie Dequenne

Émilie Dequenne

Born: August 29, 1981
in Belœil, Belgique
Émilie Dequenne (born 29 August 1981) is a Belgian actress. She first gained attention for playing the title character in the film Rosetta (1999), which earned her the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress. She then went on to star in many films such as Brotherhood of the Wolf (2001), The Light (2004), The Girl on the Train (2009), Our Children (2012), Not My Type (2014) and This Is Our Land (2017).

Dequenne won the Best Actress award at the 1999 Cannes Film Festival for her debut film performance in the Palme d'Or-winning film Rosetta. Dequenne became more well-known with worldwide audiences following her role in Brotherhood of the Wolf, a $29 million-budgeted film that grossed more than $70 million in theaters worldwide. In 2009 she played the lead in André Téchiné's La Fille du RER alongside Catherine Deneuve. She starred in the French thriller film The Pack, which premiered at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival.

In 2012, she won the Un Certain Regard Award for Best Actress award at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival for her role in the film Our Children. The film also scored her a Magritte Award for Best Actress and a nomination for a Satellite Award for Best Actress.

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Survivre
Title: Survivre
Released: June 19, 2024
Type: Movie
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Colocs de choc
Title: Colocs de choc
Released: May 22, 2024
Type: Movie
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Double foyer
Title: Double foyer
Character: Lili
Released: February 21, 2024
Type: Movie
Lili and Simon are in love. They don't live together but are loving it. And then, here comes Abel, the fruit of their love. And then, the mishaps of life which, someday, will call their way of life into question.
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Retro Therapy
Title: Retro Therapy
Character: Neurologue
Released: January 16, 2024
Type: Movie
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Mr. Blake At Your Service!
Title: Mr. Blake At Your Service!
Character: Odile
Released: November 1, 2023
Type: Movie
Since his wife's death, Andrew Blake is depressed. In an ultimate impetus, he leaves London to go back to France, in the house he met her. This journey through happy days memories won't go as planned.
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Marinette
Title: Marinette
Character: La mère de Marinette
Released: June 7, 2023
Type: Movie
Based on the biography Ne jamais rien lâcher, the script traces the career of Marinette Pichon over three decades. Born in 1975, she was the pioneer of French women's football and one of the greatest stars of that sport in the world. A prodigy discovered at the age of five, she went on to become the first French player to make a career in the United States (men/women combined) and the record holder for the number of goals and selections for the French team (men/women combined). From her childhood, ravaged by an alcoholic and violent father, to the American dream (she was crowned best player and best scorer in the prestigious US league in 2002 and 2003 and "Most Valuable Player" in 2003), via her career with the French team, Marinette paints the portrait of a kid from a working-class background who was not destined for such an extraordinary career path...
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La Fille d'Albino Rodrigue
Title: La Fille d'Albino Rodrigue
Released: May 10, 2023
Type: Movie
Rosemay, 16, lives in a foster home and only joins her biological family for the vacations. One day, her father is not there to welcome her as planned. Moreover, he does not reappear and seems to have evaporated. Her questions are met with lies, and Rosemay can only rely on her intuition.
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Title: Start Over
Character: Juliette Kharoub
Released: January 3, 2023
Type: TV
Marc, a surgeon at a hospital, is murdered on December 31. When his ex-wife, best friend and a police lieutenant find themselves stuck in the same elevator, they emerge from it and realise they have moved a year back in time.
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Close
Title: Close
Character: Sophie
Released: November 1, 2022
Type: Movie
Thirteen-year-olds Léo and Rémi have always been close, but they drift apart after the intimacy of their relationship is questioned by schoolmates.
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Love Affair(s)
Title: Love Affair(s)
Character: Louise
Released: September 16, 2020
Type: Movie
Vacations in the French countryside. Daphne, three months pregnant, finds herself alone to welcome Maxime, her boyfriend François’ cousin. François had to leave in a hurry for Paris to cover for a sick colleague. For four days, while waiting for his return, Daphne and Maxime get to know each other and share very intimate stories that bring them closer...
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Title: An Ordinary Man
Character: Anna-Rose Gagnaire
Released: September 15, 2020
Type: TV
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An Irrepressible Woman
Title: An Irrepressible Woman
Character: Renée, la belle-fille de Blum
Released: January 15, 2020
Type: Movie
1940, Jeanne Reichenbach turns her back on a peaceful life to link her destiny to Léon Blum. She's been loving him since her teenage years, and is ready to sacrifice her freedom to mary him at Buchenwald, where he's held prisoner. They will survive together.
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La Maladroite
Title: La Maladroite
Character: Emma Saugier
Released: November 19, 2019
Type: Movie
Stella is 6 but she is going to school for the first time. Happy, exuberant (maybe too much) she is a lovely child, but is often absent. Her parents say she is fragile. She tells her teacher, Céline, she fell when asked why she has a few bruises. Is it child abuse or real immune deficiency? The doubt is growing in the mind of those who meet the child. Worried, Céline notes every injury until the day the family moves without telling anyone.
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My Mum, Cancer and Me
Title: My Mum, Cancer and Me
Character: Cathy
Released: February 13, 2019
Type: Movie
14-year-old Tania starts to become aware that the boys at school are interested in her at the same time as she learns that her mother has breast cancer.
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Une vie après
Title: Une vie après
Character: Marion
Released: August 13, 2018
Type: Movie
Marion does not love her husband anymore. She decides to leave him to live fully, not to be locked in the reassuring comfort of a family life. Dominique lives with his wife an identical situation but he can not take the plunge.
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The Consolation
Title: The Consolation
Character: Flavie Flament
Released: November 7, 2017
Type: Movie
Victim of vertigo and unexplained discomfort, Flavie, a television host, resolves to consult a psychiatrist. The latter suggests a test of the past that she would have concealed and proposes to browse together a photo-album of her childhood. The cliché of a teenager with a sad look will wake up buried memories ...
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See You Up There
Title: See You Up There
Character: Madeleine Péricourt
Released: October 25, 2017
Type: Movie
In November 1918, a few days before the Armistice, when Lieutenant Pradelle orders a senseless attack, he causes a useless disaster; but his outrageous act also binds the lives of two soldiers who have nothing more in common than the battlefield: Édouard saves Albert, although at a high cost. They become companions in misfortune who will attempt to survive in a changing world. Pradelle, in his own way, does the same.
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The Brigade
Title: The Brigade
Character: Chief Warrant Officer Bénédicte Meursault
Released: July 5, 2017
Type: Movie
Bénédicte Meursault, a female firefighter, has just been transferred to a small fire brigade in the South of France. She is welcomed by Philippe, 45, the wise captain of the brigade. Soon after being introduced to the men, the young woman jumps into action. Unfortunately, while rescuing the victims of a terrible car crash, she does not find one of the injured who was ejected thirty meters away. Now the man is in hospital in a coma and he may die because of her. Completely upset, Bénédicte decides to resign but Philippe dissuades her from doing it.
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This Is Our Land
Title: This Is Our Land
Character: Pauline Duhez
Released: January 25, 2017
Type: Movie
Pauline, a devoted and generous home help nurse, raises her two children alone, while also looking after her father, a former steelworker. Taking advantage of her popularity, the directors of an extremist political party suggest she become their candidate at the mayoral elections.
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Maman a tort
Title: Maman a tort
Character: Cyrielle
Released: November 9, 2016
Type: Movie
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Par accident
Title: Par accident
Character: Angélique
Released: October 14, 2015
Type: Movie
One evening, Amra, a young Algerian living in France, accidentally runs over a pedestrian. Riddled with guilt and the certainty that she will lose her French identity papers, Amra is miraculously proved innocent by Angélique, a beautiful redhead who is as open and without any hang-ups as Amra is unsociable and introverted. The two young women become friends, but then Angélique's attitude becomes increasingly strange, indeed, even troubling...
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Souviens-toi
Title: Souviens-toi
Character: Emilie Auclair
Released: May 16, 2015
Type: Movie
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Title: Accusé
Character: Cécile
Released: January 14, 2015
Type: TV
Six stories about six people facing accusations in court.
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Not My Type
Title: Not My Type
Character: Jennifer
Released: April 30, 2014
Type: Movie
Clement, a young philosophy teacher, is sent to Arras for a year. He meets Jennifer, a pretty hair stylist, and the two freely share their hearts and bodies as they try to overcome the cultural and social divide between them.
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Divin enfant
Title: Divin enfant
Character: Sarah
Released: January 15, 2014
Type: Movie
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Möbius
Title: Möbius
Character: Sandra
Released: February 17, 2013
Type: Movie
An FSB officer falls in love with his agent, an American woman who works as a trader in a Russian bank.
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The Crossing
Title: The Crossing
Character: Sarah Arendt
Released: October 31, 2012
Type: Movie
Lola Arendt, 8, vanishes while on vacation on a wild Scottish island. Shattered by her disappearance, her parents, Sarah and Martin, separate. Two years later, Lola is found at the exact same spot. Martin returns to the island to bring her home. His delight at being reunited with Lola soon gives way to suspicion and fear. Why won't Lola talk? Who are these men watching them? What did Sarah know about Lola's disappearance? And who is beautiful and mysterious Norah Kross? When the weather conspires to stop them leaving, Martin and Lola embark on a journey across the island with Norah, headed for a tragic discovery...
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Our Children
Title: Our Children
Character: Murielle
Released: May 30, 2012
Type: Movie
Young and full of life, Murielle has a promising future ahead of her when she meets and falls head over heels for Mounir. A wedding soon follows, and the happy couple quickly set about preparing to make a family. However, with family come ties, and none come as tight as that between Mounir and his adoptive father. As Murielle continues to bring new life into the family, frictions between Mounir and Doctor Pinget reach boiling point. Helpless to extract her husband and children from the wealthy nest that Doctor Pinget has provided for them, Murielle is drawn into an unhealthy family dynamic. There is only one way out of this nightmare, and for Murielle all sense of reasoning begins to abandon her.
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Title: Mystère à Paris
Character: Diane Barraud
Released: June 10, 2011
Type: TV
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Mystery at Moulin Rouge
Title: Mystery at Moulin Rouge
Character: Diane Barraud
Released: June 10, 2011
Type: Movie
In 1892 Diane arrives in Paris to search for her missing sister. To learn the fate of her sister she auditions for the quadrille at Moulin rouge.
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The Pack
Title: The Pack
Character: Charlotte
Released: September 29, 2010
Type: Movie
In the middle of a snowy no man's land, Charlotte picks up Max, a hitchhiker; they stop in a truck-stop restaurant, and when Max doesn't come back from the bathroom, Charlotte starts looking for him in vain. She decides to return during the night but gets kidnapped by the bartender, La Spack, who turns out to be Max's mother and needs to feed her kids, 'The pack', a bunch of blood lusting ghouls. Charlotte now faces a terrifying reality: these ghouls are already dead... and hungry. Alone and in the middle of nowhere, she quickly realizes... she's next on the menu!
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J'ai oublié de te dire
Title: J'ai oublié de te dire
Character: Marie
Released: March 12, 2010
Type: Movie
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Obsession(s)
Title: Obsession(s)
Character: Sarah Lisbourne
Released: February 10, 2010
Type: Movie
A grizzly cat-and-mouse game between imprisoned serial killer, Marc Douelec, and Sarah Lisbourn, a police officer who is preoccupied with the murder investigation that surrounds the death of her mother. Douelec is behind bars for the crime but refuses to reveal the location of his victim’s body in favour of tormenting Lisbourne.
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The Girl on the Train
Title: The Girl on the Train
Character: Jeanne
Released: March 18, 2009
Type: Movie
The Girl on the Train is a 2009 French drama film directed by André Téchiné. Jeanne is a young woman, striking but otherwise without qualities. Her mother tries to get her a job in the office of a lawyer, Bleistein, her lover years ago. Jeanne fails the interview but falls into a relationship with Franck, a wrestler whose dreams and claims of being in a legitimate business partnership Jeanne is only too happy to believe. When Franck is arrested, he turns on Jeanne for her naivety; she's stung and seeks attention by making up a story of an attack on a train. Is there any way out for her?
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Rien dans les poches
Title: Rien dans les poches
Character: Judith Miro
Released: December 14, 2008
Type: Movie
25 years of the life of Marie, a Parisian party girl, first teenager leaving her mother at 17, then short star of the song, and finally mother of a teenage girl, Esther, who flees as she fled her mother.
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Charlotte Corday
Title: Charlotte Corday
Character: Charlotte Corday
Released: May 8, 2008
Type: Movie
Set in July 1793 during the outbreak of the French Revolution and the unleashing of the Reign of Terror, a young girl from Caen named Charlotte Corday plots to assassinate Jacobin newspaper editor Jean-Paul Marat.
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To Each His Own Cinema
Title: To Each His Own Cinema
Character: The crying woman (segment "Dans l'obscurité")
Released: October 31, 2007
Type: Movie
Commissioned to mark the 60th anniversary of the Cannes Film Festival, "To Each His Own Cinema" brought together 33 of the world's pre-eminent filmmakers to produce short pieces exploring the multifarious facets of cinema and their perspective on the state of their chosen artform in the early 21st century.
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La Vie d'artiste
Title: La Vie d'artiste
Character: Cora
Released: September 5, 2007
Type: Movie
A novelist, an actress, and a struggling young singer all attempt to make their mark in modern day Paris in director Marc Fitoussi's cynical entertainment industry satire. Bertrand is a French literary professor whose students all know that he is shacked up with pretty math teacher Solange despite the couple's best efforts to keep their relationship under the radar. Though no one in the school much cares for Bertrand's prose, self-flagellating student Frederic is the one notable exception. Meanwhile, as Bertrand struggles to deliver his second novel, recent big city arrival Cora finds that her fondness for outmoded songwriters may be having an adverse effect on her career trajectory. While Cora struggles to make ends meet by working at a popular chain steakhouse, even this attempt to remain afloat ultimately proves disastrous.
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Fissures
Title: Fissures
Character: Charlotte
Released: June 6, 2007
Type: Movie
Charlotte, an alienated sound engineer, travels to the country home where her mother was just murdered. She is quickly frustrated by the lack of progress in the police investigation and so begins her own. While listening to a fresh sound recording she made in her mother's house, Charlotte discovers a strange phenomenon, she can hear sounds from the past in her headphones. Soon she is using this ability to hear the past to piece together the last few days of her mother's life, drawing ever closer to discovering who killed her, even as the murderer returns to try and eliminate Charlotte before they are discovered.
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Darkness
Title: Darkness
Character: Woman
Released: May 17, 2007
Type: Movie
A pickpocket in a screening of Au hasard Balthazar accidentally connects with an audience member
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Henry Dunant: Red on the Cross
Title: Henry Dunant: Red on the Cross
Character: Cécile Thuillier
Released: February 3, 2007
Type: Movie
Henry Dunant, son of a Geneva francophone upper class bourgeoisie family, works for a Swiss exploitation company in French Algeria; when the colonists are thirsty, he returns determined to convince the firm and emperor Napoleon III to build a dam for them. After his Uncle, Dr. Hubert Dunant, diagnoses him not with Algerian typhus, just malaria, also his first meeting -dropping drawers in hospital for a shot- with nurse Cécile Thuillier, and meeting his careerist brother Daniel's fiancée, Léonie Bourg-Thibourg, daughter of the firm's boss, the board approves his plan. On his way to the emperor, who didn't even concede to receive him, Henry gets stuck in Castiglione, part of the Austrian province Lombardy which French troops came to 'liberate'; his Geneva friend Dr. Louis Appia saves his life by presenting him to suspicious Austrian troops as his medical assistant...
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The Great Meaulnes
Title: The Great Meaulnes
Character: Valentine
Released: October 4, 2006
Type: Movie
A coming-of-age story set in France in the years leading up to World War I. Two teenage boys experience love, loss, anguish and betrayal in a rural setting of great beauty.
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A Song of Innocence
Title: A Song of Innocence
Character: Charlotte
Released: August 31, 2005
Type: Movie
Antoine Santana - Issues of class, gender roles and parenting bubble to the surface in this 19th-century tale about a shepherd girl (Isild Le Besco) who farms off her own newborn to a wet nurse in the countryside so that she can earn high wages nursing the infant of a wealthy couple. The two young mothers soon become friends, but trouble arises when the bourgeois hubby takes issue with his wife fraternizing with the help. Émilie Dequenne and Grégoire Colin star. - Isild Le Besco, Émilie Dequenne, Grégoire Colin
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Before You Leave
Title: Before You Leave
Character: Aurélia
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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The United States of Albert
Title: The United States of Albert
Character: Grace Carson
Released: April 8, 2005
Type: Movie
Albert Renaud, a young French Canadian dreams of becoming a movie star and take the train to Hollywood. His trip is filled with adventures.
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Title: Kaamelott
Character: Edern
Released: January 3, 2005
Type: TV
In this off beat account of King Arthur's quest for the Grail, virtually every journey, battle or adventure is stopped dead in its tracks by the knights of the round table's most worldly traits : cowardice, greed, idiocy or misplaced chivalry. As a consequence, instead of epic adventures we are treated with the characters' pragmatic and anachronistic take on each and every event in the Grail legend, true to the purest sitcom tradition.
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The Bridge of San Luis Rey
Title: The Bridge of San Luis Rey
Character: Doña Clara
Released: December 22, 2004
Type: Movie
The Bridge of San Luis Rey is American author Thornton Wilder's second novel, first published in 1927 to worldwide acclaim. It tells the story of several interrelated people who die in the collapse of an Inca rope-fiber suspension bridge in Peru, and the events that lead up to their being on the bridge. A friar who has witnessed the tragic accident then goes about inquiring into the lives of the victims, seeking some sort of cosmic answer to the question of why each had to die.
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The Light
Title: The Light
Character: Brigitte
Released: November 3, 2004
Type: Movie
Camille arrives in Ouessant, the island of her birth off the Brittany coast, to sell the family home. She spends a last night in the house during which she discovers a secret. In 1963 a man came to work with her father, who was the Jument lighthouse operator. He only stayed two months, but his presence proved to be a disturbing catalyst.
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L'Américain
Title: L'Américain
Character: Nelly
Released: July 7, 2004
Type: Movie
Francis Farge, alias "The American" could have remained a man like the others but a strange obsession animates him: he feels American body and soul.
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The Very Merry Widows
Title: The Very Merry Widows
Character: Laurence Milcaux
Released: July 9, 2003
Type: Movie
Renée is Laurence's grandmother and she intends to show her how to make rich men fall in love with her, in order to get their life insurance's money. Both women will meet several men in the course of the movie. Even the cynical Renée will fall deeply in love again. But even after getting married, Laurence and Renée don't seem to be able to love their husband for a long time. Will they manage to get rid of their rich, loving but irritating husbands? Will their husbands survive the experience? Or will true love triumph at the end?
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The Housekeeper
Title: The Housekeeper
Character: Laura
Released: November 13, 2002
Type: Movie
After his wife leaves him for another man, Jacques hires a housekeeper, Laura, to keep his Paris apartment in order. As he starts increasing her hours and spending more time with her on her days off, Jacques is torn between the pleasure of Laura's company, and the headache that such an intrusion brings to his new domain of singlehood.
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Title: Jean Moulin
Character: Lili
Released: July 15, 2002
Type: TV
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Yes, But...
Title: Yes, But...
Character: Eglantine Laville
Released: April 18, 2001
Type: Movie
At age 17, Eglantine is troubled by a number of things. Her argumentative parents comprise an absentee and philandering father and an overprotective, occasionally alcoholic mother. Her boyfriend Sébastien is a couple of years older; he's ready, but she isn't. Frequent furtive visits to her therapist help her to see that these issues are not 'problems', but 'difficulties', which she has the strength to overcome.
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Brotherhood of the Wolf
Title: Brotherhood of the Wolf
Character: Marianne de Morangias
Released: January 31, 2001
Type: Movie
In 18th century France, the Chevalier de Fronsac and his Native American friend Mani are sent by the King to the Gevaudan province to investigate the killings of hundreds by a mysterious beast.
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Rosetta
Title: Rosetta
Character: Rosetta
Released: September 29, 1999
Type: Movie
Young, impulsive Rosetta lives a hard and stressful life as she struggles to support herself and her alcoholic mother. Refusing all charity, she is desperate to maintain a dignified job.
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Title: Vivement dimanche
Character: Self
Released: September 20, 1998
Type: TV
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Title: Fort Boyard
Character: Self
Released: July 7, 1990
Type: TV
A game show set and filmed on the real Fort Boyard in France. The contestants have to complete in physical and endurance challenges to win prize money.
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La Vie devant nous
Title: La Vie devant nous
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
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TKT
Title: TKT
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie