Sylvie Testud

Sylvie Testud

Born: January 17, 1971
in Lyon, Rhône, France
Sylvie Testud was born on January 17, 1971 in Lyon. Her parents separated when she was two years old. She spent her youth in the Lyon district of Croix-Rousse, raised by her mother, an accountant. In high school, she learned Chinese. Very early fascinated by the cinema, the young girl identifies in particular with the complexed teenager character embodied by Charlotte Gainsbourg in L'Effrontée. Having moved to Paris to study history, she soon embarked on acting by joining the free class at Cours Florent and then the Conservatory, where her teachers were Jacques Lassalle and Catherine Hiegel. She made her first screen appearance in 1994 in Couples et amants.

She decided to become an actress during her youth, after having admired actresses in films. She then took acting lessons in Lyon with the actor and director Christian Taponard. In 1989, she moved to Paris to study history, as well as drama lessons in free classes at Cours Florent, then at the National Conservatory of Dramatic Art for three years, with Jacques Lassalle and Catherine Hiegel for teachers.

In the early 1990s, she obtained her first small roles in the cinema, then in feature films such as The Story of the Boy Who Wanted to Be Kissed by Philippe Harel (1994), Le Plus Bel Age..., by Didier Haudepin (1995) or even Love, etc. by Marion Vernoux (1996).

In 1997, Sylvie Testud experienced her first great success at the cinema in Germany with the film Beyond Silence by Caroline Link, for which she learned German, the clarinet and sign language. She is rewarded as best actress by the German Film Prize (the equivalent of the César for best actress). In 1998, she played her first major role in French cinema and enjoyed great success in France with the role of Béa in Karnaval, the first feature film by Thomas Vincent, for which she was nominated for the César for best female hope and received the Michael Simon Prize. She then began an important acting career with a preference for auteur cinema.

In 2000, her performance in La Captive by Chantal Akerman (adaptation of the novel La Prisonnière by Marcel Proust) earned her a nomination as best actress at the European Film Prize. In 2001, she obtained, for her second nomination, the César for best female hope for the remarkable interpretation of Christine Papin, one of the Papin sisters, in Les Blessures assassines by Jean-Pierre Denis, based on a news item from 1933.

Movies for Sylvie Testud...

Journey to the Land of the Tarahumara
Title: Journey to the Land of the Tarahumara
Released: June 14, 2024
Type: Movie
The life of Rayenari changes when the poet Antonin Artaud arrives to his village seeking the spiritual knowledge of the Tarahumara. Rayenari introduces him to the Peyote ceremony. However, the poet abandons the ritual and loses his soul. Sometime later, Rayenari discovers through dreams that Artaud has been committed to a mental hospital. It will be through this connection that Rayenari will help his friend to recover what he lost.
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Title: Knok
Character: Blanche
Released: April 12, 2024
Type: TV
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Cocorico
Title: Cocorico
Character: Nicole Martin
Released: February 7, 2024
Type: Movie
The Bouvier-Sauvages, a large aristocratic family, meet the much more modest Martin family when their children's wedding is announced. For the occasion, the future bride and groom offer their parents DNA tests, which will reveal their true origins. The results are totally unexpected and will make the effect of a bomb.
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Marinette
Title: Marinette
Character: Régine Pierre, coach Saint-Memmie
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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Des mains en or
Title: Des mains en or
Character: Rose
Released: June 7, 2023
Type: Movie
Philippe is a well-known writer, whose life was going smoothly: a surgeon wife, a circle of high-ranking friends, a Parisian mansion... And above all, an imminent entry into the Académie Française. Except that Philippe suffers from terrible back pain that plagues his life. When he meets the incredible Martha, who picks him up after a car accident on the roads of Normandy, his vision of the world changes. With her gentle madness and her healing hands, this woman who seems so free is especially concerned with treating others, even if it means forgetting herself. Between these two characters that everything opposes, a surprising friendship is woven, with the opportunity for them to finally seize the best that life can offer them.
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Title: Flair de famille
Character: Capitaine Caroline Flament
Released: March 9, 2023
Type: TV
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The Grand Restaurant IV
Title: The Grand Restaurant IV
Released: December 15, 2022
Type: Movie
For this new year, Pierre, the director of the Grand Restaurant is thinking big to try to get the famous star from the famous Michalon guide! And for that, he settles at the foot of the Eiffel Tower. Pierre faces an unscrupulous culinary critic, who will offer him a dubious deal: to dismiss his historic chef in exchange for this famous star. Will the manager of the Grand Restaurant accept?
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Title: Club Première
Character: Self - Guest
Released: October 19, 2022
Type: TV
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Maman, ne me laisse pas m'endormir
Title: Maman, ne me laisse pas m'endormir
Character: Sophie
Released: October 18, 2022
Type: Movie
Juliette discovers that her teenage son, whom she thought was flourishing, is in reality undermined by a deep malaise and that he has become dangerously dependent on drugs. Determined to get him out of his deadly addiction, and driven by her unconditional love, she embarks on a long and painful fight, alongside her child, without ever giving up on saving him.
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Simone: Woman of the Century
Title: Simone: Woman of the Century
Character: Marceline Rozenberg (1968 - 1979)
Released: October 12, 2022
Type: Movie
Simone Veil's life story through the pivotal events of Twentieth Century. Her childhood, her political battles, her tragedies. An intimate and epic portrait of an extraordinary woman who eminently challenged and transformed her era defending a humanist message still keenly relevant today.
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Champagne !
Title: Champagne !
Character: Joanna
Released: June 8, 2022
Type: Movie
Springtime in the French vineyards of Champagne. Patrick has gathered his oldest friends for his bachelor party. The trouble is, everyone hates his future wife. This could thus become one hellish weekend in gourmet paradise.
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Title: What Pauline Is Not Telling You
Character: major de gendarmerie Marie Hermann
Released: March 9, 2022
Type: TV
Pauline regains her freedom when her husband dies, but her silence about the event places her under suspicion.
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Flashback
Title: Flashback
Character: Olympe de Gouges
Released: November 11, 2021
Type: Movie
A female lawyer travels back in time and crosses paths with other women in history who fought for women's rights.
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L'heureux Stratagème
Title: L'heureux Stratagème
Character: La Comtesse
Released: October 15, 2021
Type: Movie
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Title: Runaway
Character: Isabelle
Released: September 23, 2021
Type: TV
Charts the descent into hell of 16-year-old Lea, a self-assured teenager surrounded by a loving family, who comes to fall under the influence of a shady older man, and the attempts of her parents to pry her away from him.
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The Grand Restaurant III
Title: The Grand Restaurant III
Character: The nymphomaniac's friend
Released: February 3, 2021
Type: Movie
He had opened his Great Restaurant twice, in 2010 and 2011, as part of an entertainment broadcast on France 2. Pierre Palmade “reopens it after work” in the form of a fiction offered by M6. Exit the brewery. The artist has chosen to shoot his film at the Froufrou, the restaurant at the Théâtre Édouard-VII, in Paris, a chic establishment with rococo decor, more solemn and therefore more appropriate to important moments in life, to his big announcements that make the subject of a series of sketches. They are interpreted by a cast of stars just as prestigious as that of his comrade Muriel Robin a few weeks ago in I Love you coiffure , on TF1. As a common thread, Pierre Palmade in the role of the host busy satisfying his customers, while ensuring that his mother (Marthe Villalonga), his competitor (Florence Foresti) and her cook husband (Jean Leduc) do not transform the evening in disaster.
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I Love You Coiffure
Title: I Love You Coiffure
Character: Geneviève (segment "L'Addition")
Released: December 21, 2020
Type: Movie
Liliane and Maud are twin sisters. The first is a modest provincial hairdresser while the second leads the great life in Paris. They both fight over their mother's custody.
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Title: Fear by the Lake
Character: Alice Wagner
Released: January 9, 2020
Type: TV
A mysterious and mortally contagious virus threatens the population of Annecy, in southeastern France. A desperate race against the clock envelops to find out where the virus came from and keep it from becoming an epidemic.
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Meet the Malawas
Title: Meet the Malawas
Character: Nathalie Dulac
Released: December 25, 2019
Type: Movie
A news anchor, a comedian, an actress, and a soccer player with big egos have to travel across the globe to meet the Malawa tribe for a TV show.
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Title: Kem's
Character: Self
Released: December 23, 2019
Type: TV
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Disclaimer
Title: Disclaimer
Character: Maïté
Released: November 27, 2019
Type: Movie
Since his sensational arrival at the head of the 20 Hours, Cédric Saint Guérande, known as "CSG" is THE favorite presenter of the French. His insolent audiences stoke the jealousy even within La Grande Chaîne which he is the undisputed star. His thirst for power is limitless, which displeases the new president of the chain. The war is declared between the two men for the great pleasure of CSG. Power games, networking, manipulations and low shots: the fight will be merciless, and the outcome necessarily spectacular. Welcome to the media circus games.
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Title: Eden
Character: Hélène
Released: May 2, 2019
Type: TV
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Quand sort la recluse
Title: Quand sort la recluse
Character: le lieutenant Froissy
Released: April 10, 2019
Type: Movie
After three elderly men are bitten by spiders, everyone assumes that their deaths are tragic accidents. But at police headquarters in Paris, Inspector Adamsberg begins to suspect that the case is far more complex than first appears.
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Wide Load
Title: Wide Load
Character: Jennifer
Released: March 13, 2019
Type: Movie
This is the story of a guy who goes too fast and a big guy who is too slow. Foster meets Taupin. All this would be trivial if one of them had a scary scenario, the scenario of their lives and their deaths. Just open the pages and shake.
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Defiant Souls
Title: Defiant Souls
Character: Enriqueta Faber / Enrique Faber
Released: March 7, 2019
Type: Movie
Santiago de Cuba, January 19th, 1819. Coming from Lausanne, Enrique Faber, a Swiss doctor and surgeon, arrives on the island, a Spanish province, hoping to find his son, who has been kidnapped…
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Title: Deutsch-Les-Landes
Character: Odile
Released: November 1, 2018
Type: TV
A small French village deals with a culture clash after the town mayor sells the whole town to Bavarian Automobile Design Company and the company moves in with all their 200 employees.
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Suspiria
Title: Suspiria
Character: Miss Griffith
Released: October 26, 2018
Type: Movie
Young American dancer Susie Bannion arrives in 1970s Berlin to audition for the world-renowned Helena Markos Dance Company. When she vaults to the role of lead dancer, the woman she replaces breaks down and accuses the company's female directors of witchcraft. Meanwhile, an inquisitive psychotherapist and a member of the troupe uncover dark and sinister secrets as they probe the depths of the studio's hidden underground chambers.
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Deux gouttes d'eau
Title: Deux gouttes d'eau
Character: Valérie Laforge
Released: October 19, 2018
Type: Movie
A woman's dead body is found in her apartment on a winter morning. All the evidence points to her fiancé. But he has an identical twin brother. The detectives have to go beyond appearances and defeat their demons to find the true murderer.
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Fan Club
Title: Fan Club
Character: Anna
Released: September 19, 2018
Type: Movie
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A New Girl In Paris!
Title: A New Girl In Paris!
Character: Amandine
Released: July 4, 2018
Type: Movie
Tamara has been separated from Diego for two years. She finally leaves home to live the student adventure in Paris with his girlfriend Sam. In a galley apartment, they accept a cohabit with Wagner. Problem: Diego is part of the lot, and he is no more single.
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Kings for a Day
Title: Kings for a Day
Character: Val
Released: May 2, 2018
Type: Movie
A wannabe actor must chose between his passion and his father, a crook.
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Final Portrait
Title: Final Portrait
Character: Annette Giacometti
Released: August 3, 2017
Type: Movie
Paris, 1964. The Swiss sculptor and painter Alberto Giacometti, one of the most accomplished and respected artists of his generation, asks his friend, the American writer James Lord, to sit for a portrait, assuring him that it will take no longer than two or three hours, an afternoon at the most.
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Wedding Unplanned
Title: Wedding Unplanned
Character: Clarisse
Released: April 26, 2017
Type: Movie
When she discovers a wedding planer's business card, Alexia instantly says, "YES" to Mathias unaware that it belongs to his mistress. The groom is now trapped between his bride, and his lover who in charge of his unwanted marriage.
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Title: Maximilian and Marie De Bourgogne
Character: Charlotte de Savoye
Released: March 1, 2017
Type: TV
Known as The Last Knight for his bravery and battle skills, the great European emperor Maximilian and his story is as spectacular as it is familiar: It is the story of a prince who must learn to be king. But above all, it is the struggle of a son who steps out of his father's shadow with the help of a most unexpected ally: Marie de Bourgogne.
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Mörderische Stille
Title: Mörderische Stille
Character: Elena
Released: January 9, 2017
Type: Movie
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Tamara
Title: Tamara
Character: Amandine
Released: October 26, 2016
Type: Movie
Tamara, 15, complexed with her curves, decided its entry into second to get rid of the label of "big". To shut up the gossip, she made a bet with her best friend to go out with the first boy who pass the classroom door. No luck, the boy turns out to be Diego, the most handsome guy of high school. The bet is complicated for Tamara .... Between the dirty tricks of the mean girls of high school, a mother hen, boards "drag" his little sister, Tamara is a memorable year!
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The Exchange Student
Title: The Exchange Student
Character: Eloïse
Released: August 24, 2016
Type: Movie
Malo and Stéphane are two students who are kind of losers and have just started high school. Their plan to become popular: to host a German exchange student with a lot of style. Too bad for Malo, who gets stuck with a Goth who will make his life hell.
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The Visitors: Bastille Day
Title: The Visitors: Bastille Day
Character: Charlotte de Robespierre
Released: March 23, 2016
Type: Movie
Stuck in the corridors of time, Godefroy de Montmirail and his faithful servant Jacquouille are projected to a time of profound political and social upheavals: the French Revolution... specifically, The Terror, time of great dangers, during which the descendants of Godefroy and Jacquouille had their castle and all their property confiscated by arrogant aristocrats, fleeing and lifes hanging by a thread.
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Arrête ton cinéma !
Title: Arrête ton cinéma !
Character: Sybille
Released: January 13, 2016
Type: Movie
Sybille, an accomplished actress, is given the chance to direct a film based on her own screenplay. Everything seems to go well at first. Her producers, two sisters, are two wacky but lovable characters, and Sybille dives into the adventure with them, putting aside her family life. But, from the unlikely choice of actresses, the successive rewrites of the script and the financial issues, the wonderful dream turns into a nightmare. Ever the optimist, Sybille will realise too late that her whimsical and totally crazy producers are going to drag her in their madness ... One thing is certain, nothing will happen as planned.
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Title: Capitaine Marleau
Character: Salomé Revel
Released: September 15, 2015
Type: TV
Beneath her eccentric appearance, Captain Marleau is a formidable detective. Her Sherlock Holmes deerstalker cap, her character, her unusual appearance, her humor, her unpredictable behavior--Captain Marleau is not your average gendarme. She never rushes an investigation; she becomes the investigation and relentlessly pursues the suspects.
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Too Close to the Sun
Title: Too Close to the Sun
Character: Sophie Picard
Released: September 9, 2015
Type: Movie
A magistrate investigating a fraud case discovers the woman is the biological mother of her adopted child. Instead of recusing herself, the magistrate pursues the case further.
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Thanks to my Friends
Title: Thanks to my Friends
Character: Stéphane Brunge
Released: May 6, 2015
Type: Movie
A man in his mid 30's reevaluates his life and priorities after he met someone from his past.
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Spiderwebhouse
Title: Spiderwebhouse
Character: Sabine
Released: February 8, 2015
Type: Movie
When 12-year-old Jonas’ mother leaves to “fight her demons”, he steps up as head of the household, becoming the unofficial guardian to his younger siblings. With food and money running out, the children retreat into a world of their own where, cloaked eerily in black-and-white, their home turns into one of bugs and mysticism – they make saucepan gardens, they take on insects as pets and spiderwebs encroach. Only the friendship of an odd young homeless man gives Jonas hope to survive in an adult’s world.
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Gad Elmaleh - Le Big Show
Title: Gad Elmaleh - Le Big Show
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 2015
Type: Movie
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Two Women
Title: Two Women
Character: Elisaveta Bogdanovna
Released: November 23, 2014
Type: Movie
A headstrong young woman is married to land baron. Her feelings for her son's tutor becomes a complex web of unrequited love.
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Ceux qui dansent sur la tête
Title: Ceux qui dansent sur la tête
Character: Catherine
Released: October 24, 2014
Type: Movie
Dance drama playing on a dairy farm, starring two 19-year-old friends Syl and Frenzy who live for breakdancing. The friendship comes under pressure during a dance audition in Paris, where one clearly is superior to the other. A unique film with the passion for dance as a binder for an unusual friendship and countryside as surprisingly natural playing field. Set up by choreographer Mourad Merzouki, the founder of a hip-hop circus school, director of a dance academy and widely loved ambassador for the French streetdance.
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Papa Was Not a Rolling Stone
Title: Papa Was Not a Rolling Stone
Character: Nadiège
Released: October 8, 2014
Type: Movie
The 1980s. Stéphanie grows up in La Courneuve, on the outskirts of Paris, in a home where her mother is rarely there and her step-father is brutal. She quickly decides to escape her morose everyday life. Thanks to her grandmother's love, reading, her passion for dance, and for French pop-star Jean-Jacques Goldman, Stéphanie copes in this colorful neighborhood where friendship is primordial. One day, she knows that she'll leave this place to lead the life she's always dreamed of.
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French Women
Title: French Women
Character: Sam
Released: June 4, 2014
Type: Movie
A story about 11 girls living in Paris. Each of them has its own problems: career, love life, children. Every girl has their complexes and virtues. They always look elegant, hiding their inner feelings. Will they reach all the goals and overcome all their difficulties?
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24 Days
Title: 24 Days
Character: Brigitte Farell
Released: April 30, 2014
Type: Movie
When Ilan Halimi is kidnapped for ransom because Jewish and supposedly rich, his family and the police start a race against time to save him from the tortures of the "gang of barbarians".
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96 heures
Title: 96 heures
Character: Marion Reynaud
Released: April 23, 2014
Type: Movie
Carré is the boss of the BRB (Brigade for the Repression of Banditry). 3 years earlier, he arrested a big mobster, Kancel. Today, thanks to an extraction, Kancel kidnaps the cop. He has 96 hours to elicit a single information: know who gave him.
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À votre bon cœur, mesdames
Title: À votre bon cœur, mesdames
Character: Lolita
Released: December 4, 2013
Type: Movie
The story of a septuagenarian, recently divorced, which in its reconstruction desire and quest for a new companion will rediscover the small pleasures of life and the art of seduction.
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My Name Is Hmmm...
Title: My Name Is Hmmm...
Character: La mère de Céline
Released: October 7, 2013
Type: Movie
Céline, 11, meets Peter, 40. Together they go on a "luminous journey" in his beautiful red truck. She, escaping her desperate and incestuous father; he, far from his native Scotland and the sad memory of his lost wife and daughter. In the course of a few days, a few words, Céline experiences her first true moments of childhood and lightness, exhilaration and trust. Peter goes towards the last days of a life that he offers, like a sublime and aging angel, to this wounded child.
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Les déferlantes
Title: Les déferlantes
Character: Louise
Released: September 12, 2013
Type: Movie
Holed up in a small Normandy town, Louise hides from her ghosts as she looks after grumpy old Theo, the retired lighthouse keeper who shares her passion for ornithology. As she wanders the twisted shores, observing birds and people alike, Louise also keeps track of old Florelle, another broken soul who searches the beaches, seemingly waiting for the crashing waves to return something to her. Observing the locals' reactions to Lambert's return, the heir of a family lost at sea, Louise is intrigued by his past but, at the same time, attracted to him. As their relationship deepens, they start to unravel the web of secrets that have haunted the small village for decades. Together, they struggle to uncover the truth that could set them both free.
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For a Woman
Title: For a Woman
Character: Anne
Released: July 3, 2013
Type: Movie
After the death of her mother, Anne makes a shocking discovery: an old photograph casts doubt on her origins and leads her to discover a mysterious uncle who lived with her parents after the war. As she lifts the lid on a long forgotten family secret, the young woman learns that her mother once succumbed to an amorous passion that was as intense as it was short-lived...
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A Song For Mama
Title: A Song For Mama
Character: Sylvie
Released: March 27, 2013
Type: Movie
With their beloved mother only a few days to live, her children decide to give her a surprising parting gift: bring Dave, a lifelong fan, to her bedside in the Ardennes. But even though everyone adores her, brothers, sister and brother-in-law are not on the best of terms and cooperation is not their strong point. For her sake, however, they will overcome their resentments, drawing from their love the energy and the madness necessary to carry out their project. Finding Dave and luring him to the Ardennes will be no easy task.
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Roxana's Hands
Title: Roxana's Hands
Character: Roxana Orlac
Released: March 20, 2013
Type: Movie
Roxana Orlac, a famous violinist, loses the use of her hands in a terrible lift accident. Her career as a virtuoso seems to be over until Professor Christansen offers her a transplant of two new hands. What he omits to tell her is that the two hands in question belonged to a woman who murdered her own children. When unexplained incidents happen, followed by a murder in Roxana's entourage, she starts to wonder whether her new hands may be committing crimes of which she's unaware. Police Capitain Almeida, in charge of the investigation, falls in love with Roxana, but she remains the prime suspect. Is it possible that Roxana's hands are urging Roxana to do terrible things she's not even conscious of? Or is she the victim of some terrible plot?
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Max
Title: Max
Character: Nina
Released: January 18, 2013
Type: Movie
Max is 6 years old. She lives with her dad Toni, a small time crook with a golden heart. For Xmas, Max offers him Rose, a call-girl found on the street whom she’s very fond of. Despite the complicated situation, Toni’s gonna have a hard time refusing her daughter’s «gift» and must coexist with Rose.
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Title: La Parenthèse inattendue
Character: Self
Released: October 31, 2012
Type: TV
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Title: 28 minutes
Character: Self
Released: January 9, 2012
Type: TV
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Rebellion
Title: Rebellion
Character: Chantal Legorjus
Released: November 16, 2011
Type: Movie
April 1988, Ouvéa Island, New Caledonia. 30 gendarmes are taken hostage by a group of Kanak freedom fighters. 300 soldiers are sent from France to re-establish order. 2 men confront each other: Philippe Legorjus, chief of the terrorist squad, and Alphonse Dianou, head of the kidnappers. Through their shared values, they will attempt to make discussion triumph. But, in the middle of a presidential election, when the stakes are political, order isn't always dictated by morality. A violent and troubling epic that marks the return of Mathieu Kassovitz in front and behind the camera.
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The Night Clerk
Title: The Night Clerk
Character: Sylvie Poncet
Released: March 1, 2011
Type: Movie
Frédéric, a young man with a troubled past, has the good fortune to be given a job in a luxurious mountain hotel. When one of the hotel guests disappears one evening and is later found dead, Frédéric suspects he may have been killed by the family who employ him. But rather than betray his boss, Jacques Couvreur, he makes up his mind to protect him. Unwittingly, Frédéric puts himself in grave danger...
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L'Amour, la mort, les fringues
Title: L'Amour, la mort, les fringues
Released: February 26, 2011
Type: Movie
They stick to our skin and soul, our clothes. We believe we buy them, they own us. Warning ! these rags are traitors: far from dressing us they expose our complexes, our moods ... Clinging to their hangers, to our memories too, they exercise an underhand dictatorship. Snuggled up, huddled together, they build a bulwark against oblivion in our closets. Often stained for eternity with ink or redcurrant, impregnated with perfume, tears sometimes, piled up or messed up on our shelves, they remain forever linked to the happy or unhappy chapters of our life. It is through the evocation of their wardrobe that Gigi, Eve, Marie, Nora, Françoise, Amanda, Lisa and the others evoke the past, missed appointments and those that changed their lives, the joys and childhood revolts, giggles, disappointments, dramas, parties and hopes too…
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The Rebel, Louise Michel
Title: The Rebel, Louise Michel
Character: Louise Michel
Released: April 7, 2010
Type: Movie
A fiercely active Communard, Louise Michel is condemned for taking arms against Bismarck. Along with thousands of other revolutionaries, she is deported to New Caledonia, whilst, back in Paris, a young parliamentarian Georges Clemenceau campaigns for a truce with the Communards. During her exile, Louise Michel becomes a teacher and wins the admiration of the other deportees, inspiring them to rise up against the colonial order…
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Mumu
Title: Mumu
Character: Mumu
Released: March 24, 2010
Type: Movie
The story a rescue, the rescue of a bad brat's life in the post-WWII period. In 1947, Roger reaches 11 years old. He's a kid badly loved, mischievous and specializes in silly things to do. He is sent to a small boarding school in a small village. Mumu reigns over here. She's not the bitchest school teacher of the area. Roger has already been expelled from several schools and this is his last chance to avoid the reformatory his father has been promising him for a long time. But this is will change with the vigilance of Mumu, who, despite her strict aspects, proves herself to have a big heart.
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The Round Up
Title: The Round Up
Character: Bella Zygler
Released: March 10, 2010
Type: Movie
A faithful retelling of the 1942 "Vel' d'Hiv Roundup" and the events surrounding it.
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Sentiments provisoires
Title: Sentiments provisoires
Character: Hélène
Released: January 1, 2010
Type: Movie
A young woman announces to the man she has lived with for ten years that she is leaving him ... and that she is leaving him for his best friend. But is it so easy to break up a couple and lose a friend? ... "
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Sisters
Title: Sisters
Character: Sybille adulte
Released: December 16, 2009
Type: Movie
Lyon, France in 1970s, Sibylle, Corinne, and Georgette are sisters who share everything, as they live with their Italian mother. Sibylle is the only blonde in the family, except for their father who abandoned them, and she feels isolated. She dreams of meeting her French father one day.
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Lucky Luke
Title: Lucky Luke
Character: Calamity Jane
Released: October 21, 2009
Type: Movie
Fearless gunslinger, Lucky Luke, is ordered by the President to bring peace to Daisy Town.
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Lourdes
Title: Lourdes
Character: Christine
Released: September 11, 2009
Type: Movie
In order to escape her isolation, wheelchair-bound Christine makes a life changing journey to Lourdes, the iconic site of pilgrimage in the Pyrenees Mountains.
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Title: C à vous
Character: Self
Released: September 7, 2009
Type: TV
Every day live on FRANCE 5, Anne-Élisabeth Lemoine and her team receive those who make the news. In the second part, the program welcomes, around a meal prepared by a qualified chef, artists in promotion.
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Can't Say No
Title: Can't Say No
Released: July 15, 2009
Type: Movie
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Vengeance
Title: Vengeance
Character: Irene Costello
Released: May 20, 2009
Type: Movie
A French chef swears revenge after a violent attack on his daughter's family in Macau, during which her husband and her two children are murdered. To help him find the killers, he hires three local hit-men working for the mafia.
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A Happy Man
Title: A Happy Man
Character: Catherine
Released: February 27, 2009
Type: Movie
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Title: Panique dans l'oreillette
Character: Self
Released: September 6, 2008
Type: TV
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The Idiot
Title: The Idiot
Character: Darya Alexeyevna
Released: August 7, 2008
Type: Movie
Nastassia Philippovna finds herself juggling the affections of four men over the course of a single evening. One is her benefactor, the bourgeois Totsky. Another is the opportunistic Ganya, whom Totsky has promised 75,000 rubles if he will marry Nastassia. Rogozhin offers Nastassia 100,000 rubles for her hand. And the “idiot,” Prince Myshkin, loves Nastassia madly and vows to “save” her.
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Sagan
Title: Sagan
Character: Françoise Quoirez dite Sagan
Released: June 11, 2008
Type: Movie
A biopic of famous French writer Françoise Sagan, best known for her groundbreaking first book, Bonjour Tristesse.
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The Vanishing Point
Title: The Vanishing Point
Character: Lucie Audibert
Released: November 28, 2007
Type: Movie
Lucie Audibert, a student of Art History, does research work on Watteau and is certain that a hidden sense that nobody has ever deciphered can be found in a few of his paintings. The further she explores this the more Professor Jean Dussart - for unclear reasons - tries to discourage her.
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Arthur Honegger - Jeanne D'Arc Au Bucher
Title: Arthur Honegger - Jeanne D'Arc Au Bucher
Character: Jeanne d'Arc
Released: October 30, 2007
Type: Movie
Born Oscar-Arthur Honegger (the first name was never used) in Le Havre, France, he initially studied harmony and violin in Paris, and after a brief period in Zürich, returned there to study with Charles-Marie Widor and Vincent d'Indy. He continued to study through the 1910s, before writing the ballet Le dit des jeux du monde in 1918, generally considered to be his first characteristic work.
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La France
Title: La France
Character: Camille
Released: September 21, 2007
Type: Movie
During the First World War, Camille (Sylvie Testud), a young woman whose husband is away fighting at the front, receives a short letter of break-up from him. Distraught, she decides to go to join him, but is driven back by the rule of the time which forbids women to move around alone. She has no other recourse than to dress herself up as a man so as to be able to take to the road on foot. As she lives near the Western Fromt she hooks up with a passing group of French soldiers without too much trouble. But there's something a bit odd about these stragglers, and it's not just their habit of bursting into song at every opportunity.
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Eat, for This Is My Body
Title: Eat, for This Is My Body
Character: Madame
Released: September 10, 2007
Type: Movie
Haiti, a lonely forgotten black island abandoned to its poverty and misery. A white woman, Madame lives in a fantasy in which she helps to teach, inspire and feed the retched masses of the world. She is in fact completely cut off from them – a continent away. The awakening of desire between Madame and her black servant boy, Patrick, will lead her from her isolation out into the real Haiti, where she will for the first time see and hear the land and its people, discover the reality of her own body, her identity and come face to face with her own mortality.
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La Vie en Rose
Title: La Vie en Rose
Character: Simone "Mômone" Berteaut
Released: February 14, 2007
Type: Movie
From the mean streets of the Belleville district of Paris to the dazzling limelight of New York's most famous concert halls, Edith Piaf's life was a constant battle to sing and survive, to live and love. Raised in her grandmother's brothel, Piaf was discovered in 1935 by nightclub owner Louis Leplee, who persuaded her to sing despite her extreme nervousness. Piaf became one of France's immortal icons, her voice one of the indelible signatures of the 20th century.
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Legacy
Title: Legacy
Character: Patricia
Released: September 20, 2006
Type: Movie
Three French hipsters and their translator travel through rural Georgia to claim a remote, ruined castle that one of them has inherited. En route, they encounter an old man and his grandchild who are on a journey to carry out a mysterious, morbid ritual designed to end a conflict between warring clans.
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La vie est à nous !
Title: La vie est à nous !
Character: Louise Delhomme
Released: December 7, 2005
Type: Movie
Louise and Blanche run L'Etape, a cafe restaurant in a Savoy village. Facing them is Le Virage, run by Lucie and her daughters. The rivalry between the two cafes will be exacerbated during the truckers' strike that blocks the village.
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Words in Blue
Title: Words in Blue
Character: Clara
Released: March 22, 2005
Type: Movie
Clara is afraid of words. Her daughter, Anna, is afraid of others. Vincent is afraid to grow up. But he won't be afraid to love them.
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Title: Rendez-vous in an Unknown Land
Character: Self
Released: December 26, 2004
Type: TV
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Victoire
Title: Victoire
Character: Victoire
Released: December 22, 2004
Type: Movie
Victoire is sweet, sensitive, nice and understanding. She leads an existence which doesn't leave her much time to wonder.
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Cause toujours !
Title: Cause toujours !
Character: Léa
Released: July 28, 2004
Type: Movie
This way-offbeat comedy from Gallic director Jeanne Labrune concerns two young French women, best friends Léa and Jacinthe. While Jacinthe develops a fixation with the moths that begin to cluster in frightening quantities throughout her apartment, Léa finds herself drawn to a dim-witted fellow employed by a local supermarket, then impulsively decides to follow him home via train. When Léa mysteriously disappears during the days that follow, Jacinthe naturally grows concerned about her friend and decides to investigate.
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Tout pour l'o$eille
Title: Tout pour l'o$eille
Character: Prune
Released: May 12, 2004
Type: Movie
A bunch of broke guys rob a rich con artist who has embezzled money from a charity.
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Tomorrow We Move
Title: Tomorrow We Move
Character: Charlotte
Released: March 3, 2004
Type: Movie
When her mother moves in, the life of a writer gets crowded.
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Labyrinth
Title: Labyrinth
Character: Claude
Released: September 9, 2003
Type: Movie
Psychologist Dr. Brennac is asked by a colleague to help with the case of Claude, a patient on trial for multiple murders. Is Claude really guilty of the crimes, or is he a victim of his own mind?
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Dead Man's Memories
Title: Dead Man's Memories
Character: Das Mädchen
Released: July 6, 2003
Type: Movie
A policeman lunching with his daughter is present when a dead body washes up on shore. He investigates, leading him down a twisted and muddled path of nefarious connections reflecting, somewhat, his own life.
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Only Girls
Title: Only Girls
Character: Tina
Released: June 11, 2003
Type: Movie
After a shoplifter finds herself unexpectedly released on parole, she pays a call on the judge at her flat. The judge, Carole Rewinsky, does not tell Tina that her elease was only a clerical error. The two find they share things in common other than the judicial system, like a mutual interest in shoes. Carole allows Tina to crash on her chesterfield... Carole spots a pimp trolling for young girls at a café. Carole failed to put him away the last time, but now, with Tina agreeing to be the bait, she has a chance for better luck... The two find they complement one another well, like champagne and cassis. Carole needs to go to Annecy to crack a crooked casino case. Annecy happens to be Tina's home town... Written by David Carless
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Fear and Trembling
Title: Fear and Trembling
Character: Amélie
Released: March 12, 2003
Type: Movie
Amélie, a young Belgian woman, having spent her childhood in Japan, decides to return to live there and tries to integrate in the Japanese society. She is determined to be a "real Japanese" before her year contract runs out, though it precisely this determination that is incompatable with Japanese humility. Though she is hired for a choice position as a translator at an import/export firm, her inability to understand Japanese cultural norms results in increasingly humiliating demotions. Though Amelie secretly adulates her, her immediate supervisor takes sadistic pleasure in belittling her all along. She finally manages to break Amelie's will by making her the bathroom attendant, and is delighted when Amelie tells her the she will not renew her contract. Amelie realizes that she is finally a real Japanese when she enters the company president's office "with fear and trembling," which could only be possible because her determination was broken by Miss Fubuki's systematic torture.
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A Loving Father
Title: A Loving Father
Character: Virginia
Released: November 13, 2002
Type: Movie
Writer Léo Shepherd lives in rural France together with his daughter Virginia, who manages his affairs. One day Virginia gets a call from the Swedish Academy. Léo has won the Nobel Prize for Literature. His estranged son Paul tries desperately to contact him, but is denied every time by his sister. When Léo starts traveling to the ceremony in Stockholm by motor bike, Paul decides to follow him and try to speak to him. Clearly Léo doesn't want to be followed, starts speeding and gets involved in a accident, but isn't badly hurt. The police confuse another motorist for Shepherd and announce his death. Paul, driven by his childhood experiences, decides to kidnap his father.
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Life Kills Me
Title: Life Kills Me
Character: Myriam
Released: May 26, 2002
Type: Movie
Paul is a smart, university educated Frenchman of North African ancestry. He's a smooth talker, but he can't seem to get a job worthy of his skills. He ends up living in a single room, struggling to get by while going on many fruitless job interviews, during which he tries to impress his potential employers by turning his pizza delivery job into a tall tale about revamping the whole pizza chain. But at some point, they always seem to "see through him." He retreats into the boxing ring. His secretly gay brother Daniel also has trouble finding his place in the world. He spends all his time bodybuilding and takes dangerous drugs to enhance his physique. He dreams of being the next Schwarzenegger, but is forced to settle for a demeaning job as a "star" in a Hamburg sex club. Based on Jack-Alain Léger's novel
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Stolen Tangos
Title: Stolen Tangos
Character: Alice / Paula
Released: April 18, 2002
Type: Movie
In Paris, a young Argentine screenwriter attempts to escape his daily routine through a fictional story set in Argentina. This attracts the attention of those around him, including Alice, a young actress. But his story gradually escapes him and he becomes inextricably entangled in dreams and reality.
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Women or Children First
Title: Women or Children First
Character: Virginie
Released: March 20, 2002
Type: Movie
Tom, a Spaniard, is married to Sylvie and lives a quiet but a bit boring life in the Britanny countryside (west of France). Trouble comes when Tom ex girlfriend reappears, asking for help, announcing him that she had a girl from him 9 years ago.
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Un moment de bonheur
Title: Un moment de bonheur
Character: L'institutrice
Released: March 6, 2002
Type: Movie
Philippe, 25 ans, débarque un matin à Arcachon, où vit sa soeur. C'est un jeune homme qui n'a pas d'attache et à qui on se confie facilement. Il est saisonnier et travaille dans la restauration. Betty, 20 ans, est une jeune mère pleine de vie et de tendresse pour son fils, Damien, 5 ans. Ils vivent encore dans la cellule familiale et les relations entre Betty et son père sont conflictuelles. Damien est perturbé par cette ambiance. Sa mère trouve du travail, quitte le foyer familial et acquiert de l'indépendance. Betty et Philippe se croiseront...
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Everyman's Feast
Title: Everyman's Feast
Character: Sophie
Released: January 25, 2002
Type: Movie
Austrian television director Fritz Lehner makes his feature debut with the big-budget drama Jedermann's Fest, based on the 1911 play by Hugo von Hofmannsthal, which in turn was based on a medieval tale. Originated in parts of England, the myth of Jan Jedermann ("John Everyman") deals with a rich man on his deathbed coming to terms with his life's failures. Not following much of a plot, the modernized version involves famous fashion designer Jedermann (Klaus Maria Brandauer) imagining his last big gala event while rendered unconscious as a result of a car accident in his Ferrari. He is a success in Vienna but not in fashionable Paris, so he wishes to impress French elder stateswoman Yvonne Becker (Juliette Greco).
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Les acteurs anonymes
Title: Les acteurs anonymes
Character: Self (uncredited)
Released: October 10, 2001
Type: Movie
Nine comedians meet at the Acteurs Anonymes, a rehab center for acting, lost in the heart of Aveyron.
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I’m Going Home
Title: I’m Going Home
Character: Ariel
Released: May 13, 2001
Type: Movie
The comfortable daily routines of aging Parisian actor Gilbert Valence, 76, are suddenly shaken when he learns that his wife, daughter, and son-in-law have been killed in a car crash. Having to take care of his now-orphaned grandson, he struggles to go on with his lifelong acting career like he's used to. But the roles he is offered -- a flashy TV show and a hectic last-minute replacement in an English-language film of Joyce's Ulysses -- finally convince him that it's time to retire.
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The Château
Title: The Château
Character: Isabelle
Released: January 16, 2001
Type: Movie
Two brothers go to France to claim the chateau they have inherited.
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Julies Geist
Title: Julies Geist
Character: Julia
Released: January 1, 2001
Type: Movie
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The Dark Room
Title: The Dark Room
Character: Azalaïs
Released: November 29, 2000
Type: Movie
In 14th-century France, Aliénor breaks with the codes governing girls’ behavior and does as she wishes. The King of France grants her the hand of her childhood love, but her new husband deserts her immediately after the ceremony. Undeterred, she sets out after him, traveling to Siena to bring him back.
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Murderous Maids
Title: Murderous Maids
Character: Christine Papin
Released: November 22, 2000
Type: Movie
Based on the true story of two chambermaids (the Papin sisters) of 1930s France who murdered their employer and her daughter. Christine Papin and Léa Papin are sisters with an already troubled past. Madame Lancelin takes them into her home and employs the girls as maids. Christine sees in Madame Lancelin an ideal mother figure — in spite of her severity. But their wretched background — an indifferent mother and drunken abusive father — casts a shadow over the girls and over time their ill-fated situation darkens. The sisters withdraw into themselves and finish by committing the worst — killing Madame Lancelin and her daughter after six years of service, on the 2 February 1933 in Le Mans.
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The Captive
Title: The Captive
Character: Ariane
Released: September 27, 2000
Type: Movie
Ariane lives in Simon's large Parisian apartment. He wants to know everything from her, follows her, has her accompanied for her trips and constantly interrogates her. Knowing her taste for women and her double life only exacerbates his suffering, his helplessness, and his desire for her.
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Bad Connection
Title: Bad Connection
Character: Laurence
Released: May 12, 2000
Type: Movie
Paris is being rocked by a wave of bomb blasts. Stuck in a video game, Sadim calls the players helpline from a phone booth. Laurence takes his call and talks him through it. But their virtual chit-chat turns to drama as one misunderstanding leads to another.
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Scénarios sur la drogue
Title: Scénarios sur la drogue
Character: Segment "Lucie"
Released: February 21, 2000
Type: Movie
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In Heaven
Title: In Heaven
Released: September 16, 1999
Type: Movie
I Heaven's plot revolves around three friends with personal ambitions who must face the less pleasant aspects of reality. The story is told from the point of view of 17-year-old Csiwi, a loner who spends his evenings driving around in his brother's car or simply hanging out. He has no idea about the direction his future should take. He runs into Levi and Valeska and they easily become his bosom friends despite their differences. Levi, whose circumstances have constantly been changing, is looking for something stable in his life. He works very hard so that he can afford his own flat. Valeska is restless and fascinated by distant places and change. For her, postcards symbolize places where happiness is hidden. Valeska and Levi represent two different ways of living and Csiwi must decide for himself which road to take. He feels the first pangs of love towards Valeska, and Levi easily becomes a good friend. Together they set off in a new direction, which could be their heaven on earth.
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Annaluise & Anton
Title: Annaluise & Anton
Character: Laurence
Released: March 11, 1999
Type: Movie
Luise, called Pünktchen, and Anton are closest of friends. Being the daughter of a wealthy surgeon, young Pünktchen lives in a great house. Her mother, who always travels through the world more for public relation reasons than for the social tasks she pretends to fulfill, is never available to her as a mother. Anton, son of a single and sick mother in financial trouble, does his best to help her out of it by working late. Pünktchen decides to help her only friend (as nobody else would anyway) and starts singing in public places. Trouble arises when Anton can't resist stealing a golden lighter and Pünktchen's secret life is discovered by her parents. Two troubled families finally can see the need for actions to be taken.
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Karnaval
Title: Karnaval
Character: Béa
Released: March 3, 1999
Type: Movie
Karnaval is set against a backdrop of intolerance and hostility in the gloomy Northern French city of Dunkirk. The story is set during carnival time, when the citizens let themselves loose for six weeks of partying, carousing and having a good time. The film centers on Larbi, an Arab youth, and his confrontation with one of the turning points of his life. After a violent argument with his father, Larbi decides to leave the family's business and go to Marseilles for a fresh start. On his last night in the town he grew up in, he sleeps in the hallway of an apartment building, where he is disturbed by Béa and Christian, a couple having fun at the carnival. Larbi is attracted to Béa and decides to stay a few more days to try his luck. In the free atmosphere of the carnival, Larbi discovers a world that he did not know existed, a world which is about to clash with his conservative outlook, and the three lives are changed forever.
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Marée haute
Title: Marée haute
Released: January 30, 1999
Type: Movie
She worked all summer in a small restaurant on a Normandy beach. It's the end of the season, season of work, season of love ; he dumped her, in any case it looks like it. She has good reasons for talking to herself, all the more so since there's hardly anyone else around.
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The Misadventures of Margaret
Title: The Misadventures of Margaret
Character: Young Nun
Released: December 23, 1998
Type: Movie
A timid, insecure popular author with an overly-attentive professor husband decide to write an erotic novel. With encouragement from her sister and a bi-sexual friend, she goes to France with the intent of doing research at an inn where a diary she had been using documented erotic encounters. Instead she finds the inn is now a cloister for singing nuns. However, a young, divorced sound engineer is also there taping the nuns. While attracted, she mostly succumbs only to new fantasies until he follows her home to New York.
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Sentimental Education
Title: Sentimental Education
Character: Julia
Released: January 1, 1998
Type: Movie
The story revolves around the lives of a group of international fashion models, focusing on the main character, Fabrice. The film examines the hollowness of his glamorous lifestyle, leading to self discovery and ultimately a personal catharsis (and his own death). The film is based on (really, inspired by) the French Book, L'Education Sentimentale, by Gustave Flaubert.
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Fire in Paradise
Title: Fire in Paradise
Character: Esther
Released: December 10, 1997
Type: Movie
On her honeymoon on a ship the daughter of a rich plant owner realizes that she's not happy with her marriage. She meets a poor woman on the way to meet her future husband, a missionary in India. The women decide to swap roles...
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Beyond Silence
Title: Beyond Silence
Character: Lara
Released: December 18, 1996
Type: Movie
Beyond Silence is about a family and a young girl’s coming of age story. This German film looks into the lives of the deaf and at a story about the love for music. A girl who has always had to translate speech into sign language for her deaf parents yet when her love for playing music grows strong she must decide to continue doing something she cannot share with her parents.
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Those Were the Days
Title: Those Were the Days
Released: September 13, 1995
Type: Movie
The grueling, emotionally torturous world of French preparatory schools provides the framework for this mystery. The deliberately rigorous courses are designed to prepare students to take the brutal examinations for entry into the elite Grand Ecoles, where a select few will gain the skills and education needed to insure a bright, prosperous future for themselves. The story centers on Delphine, a girl from the lower classes, and the upper class Claude. Both young women aspire to attend the Ecole Normale Superieure on the Rue d'Ulm. Delphine lives in humble public housing with her dull mother and two young brothers while Claude, who considers herself a Communist, lives in luxury with her own servant; she is sexually involved with fellow- student, Axel, who thinks himself a fascist.
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Éternelles
Title: Éternelles
Character: Nathalie
Released: May 1, 1994
Type: Movie
20 years old Denis is a mason for his father's small business. One day, his grand-mother won't wake up anymore.
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The Story of a Boy Who Wanted to Be Kissed
Title: The Story of a Boy Who Wanted to Be Kissed
Character: Girl at party offering food
Released: March 23, 1994
Type: Movie
Raoul is a 20 years old student in Paris. Girls are not interested in him, though he is good-looking. He wonders why. Raoul does not look for a great passion, he only wants to be kissed. We will follow his love tribulations.
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Marie's Song
Title: Marie's Song
Character: Marie
Released: January 8, 1994
Type: Movie
Marie is an adolescent woman who lives in Prussia in 1813 with her mother, a countess. They live in a palace watching the path of history from a far point of view.
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Title: Deutscher Filmpreis
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 1951
Type: TV
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Elles deux
Title: Elles deux
Character: Sandrine
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
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Tout un poème
Title: Tout un poème
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
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Sur la dalle
Title: Sur la dalle
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie