Isaach De Bankolé

Isaach De Bankolé

Born: August 12, 1957
in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire
Isaach or Isaac de Bankolé (born 12 August 1957; Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire) is an Ivorian actor.

De Bankolé was born in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, to Yoruba parents from Benin. His grandparents are from Nigeria.[6] He moved to Paris in 1975 for his last year of lycée and pursued a master's degree in physics and mathematics. He then attended an aviation school and earned a private pilot licence, before a chance encounter with French director Gérard Vergez led him to enroll in the Cours Simon, a Parisian drama school.

Movies for Isaach De Bankolé...

Snakeeater
Title: Snakeeater
Character: Frank
Released: March 1, 2024
Type: Movie
Against the backdrop of a decaying cityscape, Rick Miner, an off-the-books insurance investigator, is tasked with examining the suspicious death of an ex-con involving a million-dollar life insurance claim. While retracing the victim’s steps, Rick grows increasingly unsettled by the unfolding timeline of events and the uncertainty of his own sanity.
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The People We Hate at the Wedding
Title: The People We Hate at the Wedding
Character: Henrique
Released: November 17, 2022
Type: Movie
A dysfunctional family that can't seem to get along and get it together reluctantly reunites for a family wedding. As their many skeletons are wrenched from the closet, it turns out to be just what this singular family needs to reconnect.
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Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Title: Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Character: River Tribe Elder
Released: November 9, 2022
Type: Movie
Queen Ramonda, Shuri, M’Baku, Okoye and the Dora Milaje fight to protect their nation from intervening world powers in the wake of King T’Challa’s death. As the Wakandans strive to embrace their next chapter, the heroes must band together with the help of War Dog Nakia and Everett Ross and forge a new path for the kingdom of Wakanda.
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French Exit
Title: French Exit
Character: Julius
Released: February 12, 2021
Type: Movie
“My plan was to die before the money ran out,” says 60-year-old penniless Manhattan socialite Frances Price, but things didn’t go as planned. Her husband Franklin has been dead for 12 years and with his vast inheritance gone, she cashes in the last of her possessions and resolves to live out her twilight days anonymously in a borrowed apartment in Paris, accompanied by her directionless son Malcolm and a cat named Small Frank—who may or may not embody the spirit of Frances’s dead husband.
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Title: Godfather of Harlem
Character: Monsieur 98
Released: September 29, 2019
Type: TV
Loosely based on infamous crime boss Bumpy Johnson, who in the early 1960s returned from ten years in prison to find the neighborhood he once ruled in shambles. With the streets controlled by the Italian mob, Bumpy attempts to regain his piece of Harlem.
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Shaft
Title: Shaft
Character: Pierro 'Gordito' Carrera
Released: June 14, 2019
Type: Movie
JJ, aka John Shaft Jr., may be a cyber security expert with a degree from MIT, but to uncover the truth behind his best friend’s untimely death, he needs an education only his dad can provide. Absent throughout JJ’s youth, the legendary locked-and-loaded John Shaft agrees to help his progeny navigate Harlem’s heroin-infested underbelly.
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A Violent Man
Title: A Violent Man
Character: Pete
Released: February 8, 2019
Type: Movie
A struggling mixed martial arts fighter finds himself in a fight for his life after his one night stand is found dead in her home.
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Black Is Beltza
Title: Black Is Beltza
Character: Wilson Clever (voice)
Released: October 5, 2018
Type: Movie
New York City, October 10, 1965. A group of wooden giant figures from Pamplona, representing Basque culture and traditions, parade down the street; but the local authorities have not allowed the appearance of all of them: due to the racial prejudices that persist in many sectors of society, the participation of two black giants has been banned.
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Black Panther
Title: Black Panther
Character: River Tribe Elder
Released: February 13, 2018
Type: Movie
King T'Challa returns home to the reclusive, technologically advanced African nation of Wakanda to serve as his country's new leader. However, T'Challa soon finds that he is challenged for the throne by factions within his own country as well as without. Using powers reserved to Wakandan kings, T'Challa assumes the Black Panther mantle to join with ex-girlfriend Nakia, the queen-mother, his princess-kid sister, members of the Dora Milaje (the Wakandan 'special forces') and an American secret agent, to prevent Wakanda from being dragged into a world war.
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Kiss Me!
Title: Kiss Me!
Character: Bernard
Released: July 5, 2017
Type: Movie
Claude falls in love with Cécile. She is convinced that she is the woman of her life unlike her mother who knows the tumultuous sentimental life of her daughter.
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Double Play
Title: Double Play
Character: Ernesto
Released: January 27, 2017
Type: Movie
Double Play is about anolder man named Ostrik who returns to Curaçao and his childhood after many years abroad. Ostrik reminisces about 1973 and the events surrounding a game his father played which had major consequences for Ostrik’s youth. The dramatic poverty and colourful landscapes provide the background for the leads who represent Curaçao’s melting pot: a story of pride and humiliation, money and love, ambition and hope.
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Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer
Title: Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer
Released: April 14, 2016
Type: Movie
A financial schemer finds himself in the middle of an international scandal after he becomes a political adviser to the new Prime Minister of Israel.
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The Last Witch Hunter
Title: The Last Witch Hunter
Character: Max Schlesinger
Released: October 21, 2015
Type: Movie
The modern world holds many secrets, but by far the most astounding is that witches still live among us; vicious supernatural creatures intent on unleashing the Black Death upon the world and putting an end to the human race once and for all. Armies of witch hunters have battled this unnatural enemy for centuries, including Kaulder, a valiant warrior who many years ago slayed the all-powerful Witch Queen, decimating her followers in the process. In the moments right before her death, the Queen cursed Kaulder with immortality, forever separating him from his beloved wife and daughter. Today, Kaulder is the last living hunter who has spent his immortal life tracking down rogue witches, all the while yearning for his long-lost family.
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Run
Title: Run
Character: Assa
Released: December 17, 2014
Type: Movie
Run escapes... He just killed the Prime Minister of his country. In order to do so, he had to act as if he was a crazy man, wandering through the city. His life comes back by flashes; his childhood with Tourou when his dream was to become a rain miracle-worker, his adventures with Gladys the eater, and his past as a young member of militia, in the heart of the politic and military conflict in Ivory Coast. All those lives, Run didn't choose them. Every time, he felt in by running from another life. That's the reason why his name's Run.
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Where the Road Runs Out
Title: Where the Road Runs Out
Character: George
Released: September 26, 2014
Type: Movie
George, a scientist living in Rotterdam is growing wary of the world of academia. The sudden death of an old friend is the incentive he needs to return to his African roots where he takes over a dilapidated field station in the jungle of Equatorial Guinea. There he meets an orphan boy with a sunny disposition who opens George's wary eyes to this colorful place. The boy plays matchmaker between George and the lady who runs the local orphanage and all seems rosy until an old friend of George's shows up out of nowhere to throw their lives into disarray as George discovers there are many obstacles on the road to redemption and a few more where the road runs out.
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Mirage
Title: Mirage
Character: Francis
Released: September 5, 2014
Type: Movie
A mysterious wanderer (Isaach De Bankolé) settles into a strange homestead on the parched Hungarian plains populated by an odd assortment of outcasts, in this stunning, dreamlike reverie from ambitious director Szabolcs Hajdu.
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Calvary
Title: Calvary
Character: Simon
Released: April 11, 2014
Type: Movie
After being threatened during a confession, a good-natured priest must battle the dark forces closing in around him.
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Mother of George
Title: Mother of George
Character: Ayodele Balogun
Released: January 18, 2013
Type: Movie
A story about a woman willing to do anything and risk everything for her marriage.
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Chaos
Title: Chaos
Character: Vincent
Released: October 6, 2012
Type: Movie
Vincent, Marie and their son have just moved from Paris into a farm near a small town in the south of France. He is a history and geography teacher, who looks forward to a quieter life, some kind of return to nature. His wife, a renowned international pianist, who retired in spite of her young age, has decided to follow him but almost unwillingly. From the very beginning, Thibault, one of Vincent's students, invades his family and slowly the couple, whose desires seem now so far away, falls apart. But Thibault's intentions are not at all motivated by love. And he will do anything to achieve his goal...
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Oka!
Title: Oka!
Character: Bassoun
Released: October 14, 2011
Type: Movie
The story of Louis Sarno, an American ethno-musicologist who lived among the Bayaka Pygmies in Central Africa for 25 years.
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I Am Slave
Title: I Am Slave
Character: Bah
Released: September 14, 2010
Type: Movie
Based on the real-life experiences of Mende Nazer, the story unfolds as twelve-year-old Malia, daughter of champion wrestler Bah, is abducted from her Sudanese village in the Nubar Mountains by pro-government Arab militia and sold into slavery to a woman in Khartoum, who beats her for touching her daughter. After six years she is sent to London, where her name is changed, but her miserable life of servitude continues. Her passport is taken and she is told that her father will die if she goes to the authorities. Fortunately she meets a sympathetic person who seems to offer her the hope of escape and reunion with Bah ,back in Sudan. For all the film's optimism an end title states that there are around 5,000 'slave' workers currently in Britain.
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Behind Jim Jarmusch
Title: Behind Jim Jarmusch
Character: Self
Released: September 1, 2010
Type: Movie
"Behind Jim Jarmusch" is an intimate an intriguing portrait of director Jim Jarmusch, at work on the set of his movie "The Limits of Control" (starring Isaach de Bankolé, Bill Murray, Tilda Swinton, John Hurt...)
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White Material
Title: White Material
Character: Boxer
Released: March 24, 2010
Type: Movie
On the brink of civil war breaking out in an African country, a French woman struggles to save her floundering coffee plantation.
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Title: White Collar
Character: Luc Renaud
Released: October 23, 2009
Type: TV
In exchange for his freedom, charming con artist Neal Caffrey provides his expertise to help straight-man FBI agent Peter Burke catch elusive white-collar criminals.
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The Limits of Control
Title: The Limits of Control
Character: Lone Man
Released: May 1, 2009
Type: Movie
A mysterious stranger works outside the law and keeps his objectives hidden, trusting no one. While his demeanor is paradoxically focused and dreamlike all at once, he embarks on a journey that not only takes him across Spain, but also through his own consciousness.
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24: Redemption
Title: 24: Redemption
Character: President Ule Matobo
Released: November 23, 2008
Type: Movie
Former federal agent Jack Bauer confronts African dictator Benjamin Juma, whose forces have been ordered to capture the children Bauer oversees for malicious military training.
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The Guitar
Title: The Guitar
Character: Roscoe Wasz
Released: November 7, 2008
Type: Movie
The life of a woman is transformed after she is diagnosed with a terminal disease, fired from her job and abandoned by her boyfriend. Given two months to live, she throws caution to the wind to pursue her dreams.
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Machetero
Title: Machetero
Released: June 3, 2008
Type: Movie
Post 9/11 definitions, ideas and notions of terrorism are challenged in this highly controversial and experimental film. Machetero is an allegorical narrative that follows French journalist Jean Dumont, to a New York prison where he interviews Pedro Taino, a so-called "Puerto Rican Terrorist". Pedro is a self-described Machetero fighting to free Puerto Rico from the yoke of United States colonialism. He is obsessed with freedom, freedom for his country, his people and for himself. Jean questions Pedro about his decisions to use violence as a means to achieve that freedom. Jean utilizes a global perspective in questioning Pedro, referencing examples of achieving his goals through more peaceful means. However Jean soon finds that Pedro is well versed in liberation struggles from around the world and their debate over the use of violence as a catalyst for change escalates. As Jean and Pedro speak, another story unfolds. A ghetto youth grows up in the streets doing what he has to do to ...
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The Fifth Patient
Title: The Fifth Patient
Character: Cpt. Mugambe
Released: October 23, 2007
Type: Movie
John Reilly wakes up in an African Hospital with only fragments of his memory intact. An officer of the local regime, Mugambe, accuses him of being an American spy.
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Battle in Seattle
Title: Battle in Seattle
Character: Abasi
Released: September 7, 2007
Type: Movie
Thousands of activists arrive in Seattle, Washington in masses to protest the WTO Ministerial Conference of 1999 (World Trade Organization). Although it began as a peaceful protest with a goal of stopping the WTO talks, it escalated into a full-scale riot and eventually, a State of Emergency that pitted protesters against the Seattle Police Department and the National Guard.
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The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Title: The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Character: Laurent
Released: May 23, 2007
Type: Movie
The true story of Elle France editor Jean-Dominique Bauby, who, in 1995 at the age of 43, suffered a stroke that paralyzed his entire body, except his left eye. Using that eye to blink out his memoir, Bauby eloquently described the aspects of his interior world, from the psychological torment of being trapped inside his body to his imagined stories from lands he'd only visited in his mind.
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Casino Royale
Title: Casino Royale
Character: Steven Obanno
Released: November 14, 2006
Type: Movie
Le Chiffre, a banker to the world's terrorists, is scheduled to participate in a high-stakes poker game in Montenegro, where he intends to use his winnings to establish his financial grip on the terrorist market. M sends Bond—on his maiden mission as a 00 Agent—to attend this game and prevent Le Chiffre from winning. With the help of Vesper Lynd and Felix Leiter, Bond enters the most important poker game in his already dangerous career.
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Miami Vice
Title: Miami Vice
Character: Neptune
Released: July 27, 2006
Type: Movie
A case involving drug lords and murder in South Florida takes a personal turn for undercover detectives Sonny Crockett and Ricardo Tubbs. Unorthodox Crockett gets involved romantically with the Chinese-Cuban wife of a trafficker of arms and drugs, while Tubbs deals with an assault on those he loves.
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Title: The Unit
Character: General Togar
Released: March 7, 2006
Type: TV
A covert team of special forces operatives risk their lives on undercover missions around the globe, while their wives maintain the homefront, protecting their husbands' secrets.
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Stay
Title: Stay
Character: Professor
Released: September 24, 2005
Type: Movie
Psychiatrist Sam Foster has a new patient, Henry Letham, who claims to be suicidal. In trying to diagnose him, Sam visits Henry's prior therapist and also finds Henry's mother -- even though Henry has said that he murdered both of his parents. As reality starts to contradict fact, Sam spirals into an unstable mental state. Then he finds a clue as to how and when Henry may try to kill himself, and races to try to stop him.
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Before It Had a Name
Title: Before It Had a Name
Character: Waiter
Released: September 10, 2005
Type: Movie
A young Italian woman inherits from her deceased lover an enigmatic modern house in the New York country side, and goes to see it for the first time. When she arrives she meets the caretaker of the house.
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The Skeleton Key
Title: The Skeleton Key
Character: Creole Gas Station Owner
Released: July 29, 2005
Type: Movie
A hospice nurse working at a spooky New Orleans plantation home finds herself entangled in a mystery involving the house's dark past.
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Manderlay
Title: Manderlay
Character: Timothy
Released: June 3, 2005
Type: Movie
In 1933, after leaving Dogville, Grace Margaret Mulligan sees a slave being punished at a cotton farm called Manderlay. Officially, slavery is illegal and Grace stands up against the farmers. She stays with some gangsters in Manderlay and tries to influence the situation. But when harvest time comes, Grace sees the social and economic reality of Manderlay.
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From Other Worlds
Title: From Other Worlds
Character: Abraham
Released: October 29, 2004
Type: Movie
FROM OTHER WORLDS is a sci-fi comedy about a depressed Brooklyn housewife who sleepwalks through her life until she encounters an alien force in her backyard. With the help of a fellow contactee, an African immigrant, she is determined to solve the mystery of her otherworldly experiences. Along the way, she finds romance, saves the planet and finds new meaning in her life.
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Homework
Title: Homework
Character: Jean
Released: May 3, 2004
Type: Movie
Sara, a young ballet dancer, drifts through boredom as a constrained classical dancer until she meets Jean, a West African plumber from the opposite side of town with natural simplicity and freedom in his dance movements. Curiosity leads towards an explosion of awakening in both her dance and personal worlds.
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Coffee and Cigarettes
Title: Coffee and Cigarettes
Character: Isaach (segment "No Problem")
Released: March 12, 2004
Type: Movie
Coffee And Cigarettes is a collection of eleven films from cult director Jim Jarmusch. Each film hosts star studded cast of extremely unique individuals who all share the common activities of conversing while drinking coffee and smoking cigarettes.
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The Killing Zone
Title: The Killing Zone
Character: Malcolm
Released: March 7, 2003
Type: Movie
Killing Zone is the story of an affluent Harlem psychiatrist living an unexamined life until his adoptive father- a doctor who plucked him from a Nigerian refugee camp as a child - is gunned down by an eleven-year-old in Brooklyn. In an instant, everything he's absorbed in twent years in America is thrown into question, and his search for the boy resurrects memories of his own buried past.
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Title: The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones
Character: Barthelemy Boganda
Released: January 13, 2002
Type: TV
The boyhood adventures of the greatest action hero of all time: Indiana Jones. Young Indy travels the world, meeting some of the greatest figures of the early 20th century, and participating in the events that helped shape history.
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Title: 24
Released: November 6, 2001
Type: TV
Counterterrorism agent Jack Bauer fights the bad guys of the world, a day at a time. With each week's episode unfolding in real-time, "24" covers a single day in the life of Bauer each season.
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3 A.M.
Title: 3 A.M.
Character: Angus
Released: July 1, 2001
Type: Movie
The feature film directing debut of Spike Lee protege Lee Davis takes the viewer into the world of taxi drivers. Developed in the Sundance Laboratory, this film offers dove-tailing stories centering on the lives of individual taxi drivers as they reflect on and experience romance, politics, sociology, and spirituality.
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Bàttu
Title: Bàttu
Character: Saar
Released: September 24, 2000
Type: Movie
The star-stubbed cast includes Issac de Bankolè as Saar, a blind beggar, and Danny Glover as a corrupt president. In this often hilarious mix of politics and superstition, the beggars hamper the tourist industry yet play a necessary role opposite the lives of devout and wealthy Muslims. The agitated Minister of Public Health and Sanitation imposes a novel way of eliminating the problem.
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Cherry
Title: Cherry
Character: Menu Man
Released: December 10, 1999
Type: Movie
At age 19, a young woman is jilted at the altar. This leads to a declaration that she will swear off men forever. Now 10 years later, she suddenly decides she would like to have a child. She advertises in the newspaper for potential mates, whether by traditional methods or by sperm donors, but gets nothing but losers. However, two neighborhood men vie for her attention - her gynecologist and a professional clown.
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The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Oganga, The Giver and Taker of Life
Title: The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Oganga, The Giver and Taker of Life
Character: Sgt. Barthelmy
Released: November 14, 1999
Type: Movie
In the eleventh film in the series, in December 1916, Indy, still stationed in Africa, is promoted to Captain and then ordered to cross the jungle with Remy and Captain Boucher to pick up a shipment of weaponry. Along the way, Ubangan Sergeant Barthélèmy picks up the sole surviving child from a disease-ravaged village despite Boucher's orders against it. On the way back, Indy and company succumb to disease themselves, and are picked up by Albert Schweitzer and the orderlies from his jungle hospital. At first resistant to being treated by a German, Indy soon begins to realize that Schweitzer is not interested in war, only attempting to cure people against all odds.
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Otomo
Title: Otomo
Character: Otomo
Released: November 11, 1999
Type: Movie
The true story of Otomo, a black man seeking work and asylum in the German city of Stuttgart. However, all he finds is racism, police trouble and his final destiny.
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Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai
Title: Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai
Character: Raymond
Released: October 6, 1999
Type: Movie
An African-American Mafia hit man who models himself after the samurai of ancient Japan finds himself targeted for death by the mob.
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Title: The Sopranos
Character: Father Obosi
Released: January 10, 1999
Type: TV
The story of New Jersey-based Italian-American mobster Tony Soprano and the difficulties he faces as he tries to balance the conflicting requirements of his home life and the criminal organization he heads. Those difficulties are often highlighted through his ongoing professional relationship with psychiatrist Jennifer Melfi. The show features Tony's family members and Mafia associates in prominent roles and story arcs, most notably his wife Carmela and his cousin and protégé Christopher Moltisanti.
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A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries
Title: A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries
Character: Mamadou
Released: September 18, 1998
Type: Movie
This fictionalized story, based on the family life of writer James Jones, is an emotional slice-of-life story. Jones is portrayed here as Bill Willis, a former war hero turned author who combats alcoholism and is starting to experience health problems. Living in France with his wife, daughter, and an adopted son, the family travels an unconventional road which casts them as outsiders to others. Preaching a sexual freedom, his daughter's sexual discovery begins at an early age and betrays her when the family moves to Hanover in America. Her overt sexuality clashes with the values of her teenage American peers and gives her a problematic reputation. Meanwhile, her brooding brother copes with his own interior pain regarding his past, only comfortable communicating within the domestic space.
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The Keeper
Title: The Keeper
Character: Jean Baptiste
Released: September 15, 1995
Type: Movie
Paul Lamont, a corrections officer and law student, leads a comfortable if culturally bankrupt, middle-class existence. Lamont's marriage is already in trouble when he bails out a mysterious Haitian, Jean Baptiste, in the belief that Baptiste has been wrongly accused. Baptiste insinuates himself in Lamont's life and leads him on a journey of discovery. Lamont then finds that acts of conscience can have unforeseen consequences.
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Casa de Lava
Title: Casa de Lava
Character: Leão
Released: February 10, 1995
Type: Movie
The film tells a story of Mariana, a nurse who leaves Lisbon to accompany an immigrant worker in a comatose sleep on his trip home to Cape Verde. The devoted Portuguese nurse took a journey only to find herself lost in abstract drama.
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Heart of Darkness
Title: Heart of Darkness
Character: Mfumu
Released: October 1, 1993
Type: Movie
A trading company manager travels up an African river to find a missing outpost head and discovers the depth of evil in humanity's soul.
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Night on Earth
Title: Night on Earth
Character: Cab Driver Paris
Released: December 12, 1991
Type: Movie
An anthology of 5 different cab drivers in 5 American and European cities and their remarkable fares on the same eventful night.
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Title: Les Nuls, l'émission
Character: Self
Released: October 13, 1990
Type: TV
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No Fear, No Die
Title: No Fear, No Die
Character: Dah
Released: September 5, 1990
Type: Movie
Dah and Jocelyn come from Benin, Africa, to coach their rooster, "S'en fout la mort", for an illicit cock-fight in the basement of a restaurant.
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Vanille fraise
Title: Vanille fraise
Character: Hippolyte N'Go
Released: November 29, 1989
Type: Movie
Husband finds out that his wife is a secret agent and that she has a handsome partner.
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How to Make Love to a Negro Without Getting Tired
Title: How to Make Love to a Negro Without Getting Tired
Character: Vieux
Released: February 24, 1989
Type: Movie
A warm summer in Montreal. Two black men, Man and Bouba, share an apartment. Man is an ambitious author, writing on The Great Novel. Bouba is a lazy amateur philosopher who quotes the Koran. Man's habit of picking up young white women makes many young white men jealous...
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Ada in the Jungle
Title: Ada in the Jungle
Character: Bumbo
Released: September 28, 1988
Type: Movie
A dying man Lord Gordon asks his niece Ada to find his son in Africa whom he left many years ago.
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Chocolat
Title: Chocolat
Character: Protée
Released: May 18, 1988
Type: Movie
On her way to visit her childhood home in a colonial outpost in Northern Cameroon, a young French woman recalls her childhood, her memories concentrating on her family's houseboy.
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Lady Cops
Title: Lady Cops
Character: Inspecteur Lacroix
Released: December 16, 1987
Type: Movie
Mireille Molyneux, police inspector, tracks down pimps. With the complicity of Yasmina, a prostitute, she arrested Charlie, her pimp. To take revenge on Mireille, Jean-Pierre, another pimp, accuses him of corruption. It was then the subject of an investigation by two IGS inspectors: Blondel and Lacroix. Soon after, Charlie was released for lack of evidence. To keep Yasmina, he kidnaps his son and threatens to kill him.
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Title: Sacrée soirée
Character: self
Released: September 2, 1987
Type: TV
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Black Mic Mac
Title: Black Mic Mac
Character: Lemi
Released: April 23, 1986
Type: Movie
This is a charming and successful farce from director Thomas Gilou, featuring a witty screenplay co-authored by producer Monique Annaud. When a group of African squatters in Paris are threatened with eviction, they find themselves fighting against a bureaucracy that few French citizens understand, let alone immigrants. In desperation, they turn to their best option to resolve this dilemma: they call for a sorcerer from home. The sorcerer hops on a jet to Paris to cast spells on the entrenched bureaucrat, and while en route he strikes up a conversation with a fellow passenger, mentioning his job pays quite well. The interested passenger could stand to make a few extra francs, so he decides to take the sorcerer's place. Once he arrives, this imposter has to act like he knows what he is doing, and at the same time, he had better solve the eviction problem.
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Noir et blanc
Title: Noir et blanc
Released: March 12, 1986
Type: Movie
Antoine is an accountant, uptight and withdrawn, married to Edith, who picks out his clothes and shoes. He's assigned to a fitness gymnasium for a month to straighten out their books. The owner, M. Roland, encourages Antoine to use the facilities, including the massages, so Antoine goes to Dominique, a muscular African. In these sessions, Antoine discovers that the pain is comforting, and Dominique finds the accountant ideal for his own sadism. When Dominique breaks Antoine's arm and then goes to the hospital to take Antoine away, Antoine confesses his fascination with and fear of death. With Dominique's help, the accountant breaks all earthly ties to confront his fear.
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The Syringe
Title: The Syringe
Released: November 14, 1984
Type: Movie
Good dope is becoming rare in the North of Paris. Drugstores are being raided by junkies and gangs are nervous, fighting each others: the 'Viets', the 'Blackies', the 'Arabs', the neo-nazis 'Justiciers' and some mean gays. Vincent (Daniel Auteuil) is the good cop coming from Marseilles where he was a gangster. He's a soft method guy but also kicks assses hard and throw lethal dialog lines when needed. With the precious help of 'l'Arbalète'* (Marisa Berenson**), a tox' prostitute ex-member of Vincent's former gang, he will try to put order in that mess. There's also a violent and racist cop (Marcel Bozzuffi), Algeria veteran with hard methods, whose role could be more than to protect and to serve.
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Comment draguer tous les mecs
Title: Comment draguer tous les mecs
Released: November 7, 1984
Type: Movie
Like every provincial girl arriving in Paris, Charlotte gets off the train with one idea in mind: to have fun, to flirt, to find a guy at all costs. But Charlotte is unaware of the two handicaps she carries with her. First: Charlotte is not a fashion cover. Second: Charlotte is chronically unlucky. She attracts disasters better than a lightning rod attracts lightning... Operation Flirt is on! Charlotte's first experiences of love are catastrophic: all her stratagems end in disaster! Fortunately, Charlotte has more than one trick up her sleeve.
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Title: Champs-Elysées
Character: Self
Released: January 16, 1982
Type: TV
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Celui qui soigne Muganga
Title: Celui qui soigne Muganga
Character: Denis Mukwege
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
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The Brutalist
Title: The Brutalist
Character: Gordon
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
When visionary architect László Toth and his wife Erzsébet flee Europe to rebuild their legacy and witness the birth of modern America, their lives are changed forever by a mysterious and wealthy client.