Vincent Macaigne

Vincent Macaigne

Born: October 19, 1978
in Paris, France
Vincent Macaigne (born 19 October 1978) is a French actor, theatre director and film director. He is also a screenwriter and playwright.

Macaigne was raised in Paris, the son of a French businessman and an Iranian-born painter. He has an elder brother, who is a forensic doctor. He attended the CNSAD between 1999 and 2002, and staged his first play in 2004. Throughout the 2000s, he acted in several theatre productions and also wrote and staged a number of plays. He suffered two strokes at just thirty years old, one of which occurred after his 2009 staging of the theatrical adaptation of Fyodor Dostoyevsky's The Idiot. In an interview, he said the stroke has had no lasting consequences to his health.

His short film What We'll Leave Behind (Ce qu'il restera de nous) won the Grand Prix at the Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival, and was nominated for the César Award for Best Short Film.

In 2014, he received nominations for the César Award for Most Promising Actor and the Lumières Award for Most Promising Actor for his role in La Fille du 14 juillet.

His directorial feature film debut, Dom Juan, is an adaptation of the play of the same name by Molière. It was screened in the Cineasts of the Present section at the 2015 Locarno International Film Festival.

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An Honest Woman
Title: An Honest Woman
Released: November 6, 2024
Type: Movie
Joan, no longer in love, leaves her partner Victor, the father of her daughter. Joan is convinced her decision is morally justified, but it comes back to bite her when Victor subsequently disappears, leaving her overwhelmed with guilt. Her best friend Alice, for her part, is an advocate for marriages of convenience, relationships devoid of love but built upon affection, which she finds more bearable than passionate love. But Joan’s friend Rebecca sees love as an adventure, and is involved in a secret relationship with Alice’s partner. These are three close women who are light years apart in their attitudes and moral beliefs. Three women who try to defend their ideas and assert their choices.
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Close To The Sultan
Title: Close To The Sultan
Released: October 18, 2024
Type: Movie
An early 20th-century sultan is introduced to the cinematograph with the help of a former operator for the Lumiere brothers.
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Pourquoi tu souris ?
Title: Pourquoi tu souris ?
Character: Jérôme
Released: July 3, 2024
Type: Movie
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Suspended Time
Title: Suspended Time
Character: Etienne
Released: June 19, 2024
Type: Movie
April 2020––Lockdown. Etienne, a film director, and his brother Paul, a music journalist, are confined together in their childhood home with their new partners Morgane and Carole. Every room, every object, reminds them of their childhood, and the memories of the absents––their parents, their neighbors… This compels them to measure the distance that separates them from each other and the roots they share, those of their ground zero. As the world around them is becoming increasingly unsettling, unreality, and even a disturbing strangeness, invades their daily gestures and actions.
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Bonnard, Pierre and Marthe
Title: Bonnard, Pierre and Marthe
Character: Pierre Bonnard
Released: January 10, 2024
Type: Movie
When French painter Pierre Bonnard met Marthe de Méligny, he didn’t know this self-proclaimed aristocrat would become the cornerstone of his life and work. From this moment, she became more than just a muse for the “painter of happiness”, appearing in more than a third of his work. Together, they reached their artistic fulfillment thanks to a colourful love, different from the standards of their time, nurturing the great mystery around their relationship. Based on a true story.
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Paint it Gold
Title: Paint it Gold
Character: Arthur Forestier
Released: August 9, 2023
Type: Movie
Willing to risk it all, an unscrupulous art dealer and his socially-awkward painter and longtime friend develop an extreme and ludicrous plan to save themselves.
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Best Secret Place
Title: Best Secret Place
Released: August 8, 2023
Type: Movie
Within my walls, many people are taking a break. Waiting to live.
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iNTELLIGENCE
Title: iNTELLIGENCE
Character: Pascal Rivière
Released: August 5, 2023
Type: Movie
Pascal Rivière works for the newspaper Mistral. One day, he discovers his death notice in the classified ads section. It's in writing, it's official that Pascal will die at 45.
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Big Kids
Title: Big Kids
Character: Yannick
Released: April 26, 2023
Type: Movie
Yannick is a caregiver in a retirement home. Between permanent pressure and budget restrictions, he faces the lack of means with a contagious good mood. But when he is forced to share the dining room with a class of children, the situation becomes complicated. Their arrival, as well as that of his hostess, Aude, will shake up the daily life of everyone, especially the residents.
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Dilemna Dilemma
Title: Dilemna Dilemma
Character: Fox
Released: April 25, 2023
Type: Movie
Dana and Fox meet through a dating app for conspiracy theorists, but soon discover they don’t share the same interests. As some terrifying events occur around them, they wonder about the purpose of having met.
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Diary of a Fleeting Affair
Title: Diary of a Fleeting Affair
Character: Simon
Released: September 14, 2022
Type: Movie
A single mother and a married man enter into an affair with the understanding that their relationship is purely sexual. Though they agree the relationship has no future, they find themselves increasingly drawn into each other's company.
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Title: Irma Vep
Character: René Vidal
Released: June 6, 2022
Type: TV
Mira is an American movie star disillusioned by her career and a recent breakup, who comes to France to star as “Irma Vep” in a remake of the French silent film classic, “Les Vampires.” Set against the backdrop of a lurid crime thriller, Mira struggles as the distinctions between herself and the character she plays begin to blur and merge.
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Title: Le Flambeau, les aventuriers de Chupacabra
Character: Magic Ludo
Released: May 23, 2022
Type: TV
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En même temps
Title: En même temps
Character: Pascal Molitor
Released: April 6, 2022
Type: Movie
On the eve of a vote to greenlight the construction of a leisure centre where a primal forest currently stands, an unashamedly right-wing mayor sets out to trap his ecologist opponent. But both will end up being outwitted by a group of feminist activists who will confront the two men with their own contradictions, once and for all.
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Love Song for Tough Guys
Title: Love Song for Tough Guys
Character: Eric Lamb
Released: September 29, 2021
Type: Movie
In a port city, the lives of a few isolated people, used to violence, are strongly influenced by the love they feel for each other. Choices, envy, love and tenderness are the driving forces that help these characters to be themselves and give meaning to their lives. A tribute to poetry, theatre and art.
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The Night Doctor
Title: The Night Doctor
Character: Mickaël Kourtchine
Released: June 16, 2021
Type: Movie
Mikael is doctor on night call. It’s a vocation. Between two patient-visits in slum areas, he cares for those whom no one else wants to see: the drug addicts, the homeless… He rubs shoulders with destitution. His life is in shambles. Especially when it comes to his pharmacist cousin who makes him write false prescriptions for Subutex. Overnight, he decides to get out of drug trafficking and rebuild his life. But there will be a heavy price to pay.
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A Day in a Life
Title: A Day in a Life
Character: Gabrielle's Father
Released: March 20, 2021
Type: Movie
Paris. Gabrielle and Enzo, two teenagers from the same gang, meet in front of the school. Cigarettes, the affirmation of sexual desire and the discovery of new drugs punctuate their day. Each one, in his own way, celebrates or laments childhood that is slipping away.
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We're Not Animals
Title: We're Not Animals
Released: January 28, 2021
Type: Movie
His ex Marie became an Instagram star (thanks to an activist group focused on the female orgasm). Depressed, Igor believes this is a deliberate campaign to prevent him from finding someone else.
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Title: La Flamme
Character: Ludo
Released: October 12, 2020
Type: TV
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Dear Mother
Title: Dear Mother
Character: Michel
Released: October 8, 2020
Type: Movie
One day, Jean-Louis discovers that his heart has stopped. He is not dead, can walk and talk, but his heart is no longer beating. With the help of his wife and a friend, he tries to understand the origin of this mystery.
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Title: We're Live
Character: Self - Guest
Released: September 26, 2020
Type: TV
On est en direct is the place where we talk about news and culture, where we host singers, actors, writers, and where surprises, and humor are par for the course! It's freedom of speech, with guests coming to speak on the news for debates without filter. It's also an opportunity to discover new talents ...
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Love Affair(s)
Title: Love Affair(s)
Character: François
Released: September 16, 2020
Type: Movie
Vacations in the French countryside. Daphne, three months pregnant, finds herself alone to welcome Maxime, her boyfriend François’ cousin. François had to leave in a hurry for Paris to cover for a sick colleague. For four days, while waiting for his return, Daphne and Maxime get to know each other and share very intimate stories that bring them closer...
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How to Make Out
Title: How to Make Out
Character: Poupinel
Released: July 29, 2020
Type: Movie
Arthur, 15, has a crush on Ouassima, who does not even look at him... While he has never been upset, she goes out with Matt, the handsome kid from college. To get closer to her, Arthur gathers a group of single losers and offers to give them lessons in fishing, at 10 euros per lesson. In the changing rooms of the swimming pool, a long intimate and collective learning begins on "girls and love: instructions for use".
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Anna Vernor II
Title: Anna Vernor II
Character: Raphaël Vernor
Released: February 1, 2020
Type: Movie
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Happy Birthday
Title: Happy Birthday
Character: Romain
Released: September 4, 2019
Type: Movie
A mother of two gathers her loved ones to celebrate her birthday in her big house near the Loire Valley. The festivities are disrupted by the arrival of her daughter, who is known for her unpredictable outbursts.
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White as Snow
Title: White as Snow
Character: Vincent
Released: April 10, 2019
Type: Movie
Claire is a beautiful young woman who works at her late father’s hotel, that is now managed by her evil stepmother Maud. Claire unwittingly sparks uncontrollable jealousy in Maud, whose young lover has fallen in love with Claire. Maud decides to get rid of Claire who finds shelter in a farm where she’s allowed to break free from her strict upbringing through encounters with seven “princes.”
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Non-Fiction
Title: Non-Fiction
Character: Léonard
Released: October 11, 2018
Type: Movie
Alain, a successful Parisian publisher struggling to adapt to the digital revolution, has major doubts about the new manuscript of Léonard, one of his long-time authors — another work of auto-fiction recycling his love affair with a minor celebrity. Selena, Alain’s wife, a famous stage actress, is of the opposite opinion.
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Pour pas être seul
Title: Pour pas être seul
Released: May 27, 2018
Type: Movie
Vincent is involved in the making of a video game called Soulkeeper in which he plays the main character, a knight that came back from the dead. For his first day on the set, he's being followed by a TV crew.
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Reinventing Marvin
Title: Reinventing Marvin
Character: Abel Pinto
Released: November 22, 2017
Type: Movie
Telling the true story of Marvin Bijou, a young boy from a working-class family in a small village, who suffers constant bullying at school and home for being ‘different’ – too sensitive and too feminine. A chance encounter with a drama teacher opens the doors to a world that offers him the chance to escape his situation.
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C'est la vie!
Title: C'est la vie!
Character: Julien
Released: October 4, 2017
Type: Movie
Max is a battle-weary veteran of the wedding-planning racket. His latest — and last — gig is a hell of a fête, involving stuffy period costumes for the caterers, a vain, hyper- sensitive singer who thinks he's a Gallic James Brown, and a morose, micromanaging groom determined to make Max's night as miserable as possible. But what makes the affair too bitter to endure is that Max's colleague and ostensible girlfriend, Joisette, seems to have written him off, coolly going about her professional duties while openly flirting with a much younger server. It's going to be a very long night… especially once the groom's aerial serenade gets underway.
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Dog
Title: Dog
Character: Jacques Blanchot
Released: August 21, 2017
Type: Movie
Jacques Blanchot loses everything: his wife, his home, his job. He gradually alienates himself from the world around him. Until the day when the owner of a pet shop takes him in.
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Des Plans Sur La Comète
Title: Des Plans Sur La Comète
Character: Franck
Released: June 21, 2017
Type: Movie
Two small time crooks brothers fall apart when they both meet very different women
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Struggle for Life
Title: Struggle for Life
Character: Marc Châtaigne
Released: June 15, 2016
Type: Movie
Marc Châtaigne, an intern at the Ministry of Standards, is sent to French Guiana to implement European construction standards at Guyaneige: the first Amazonian ski slope, intended to boost tourism in French Guiana. There, he meets Tarzan, an attractive intern at the National Forestry Office, with whom he’ll get lost on a journey through the jungle that will take him far, far away…
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News from Planet Mars
Title: News from Planet Mars
Character: Jérôme
Released: March 9, 2016
Type: Movie
Philippe Mars wants to please everyone. He wants to be a good father, a friendly ex-husband, a helpful colleague and an understanding brother. Unfortunately, his little world goes out of its planned orbit. His son becomes a hardcore vegetarian, his daughter a compulsive swot, whilst his sister exhibits giant paintings of their naked parents. At the office he must face the rampages of his mentally unstable colleague Jerôme who one night turns up at his door with a young woman in tow who has just been released from a clinic.
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The Innocents
Title: The Innocents
Character: Samuel
Released: February 10, 2016
Type: Movie
Poland, 1945. Mathilde, a young French Red Cross doctor, is on a mission to help the war survivors. When a nun seeks for her help, she is brought to a convent where several pregnant sisters are hiding, unable to reconcile their faith with their pregnancy. Mathilde becomes their only hope.
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Two Friends
Title: Two Friends
Character: Clément
Released: September 23, 2015
Type: Movie
Mona, a prisoner on work release, meets Clément, a shy actor. Desperate to impress Mona, Clément recruits his extroverted friend, Abel, to help. When Mona becomes more interested in Abel, it sets off a conflict between the two friends. Meanwhile, Mona attempts to keep her past hidden.
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Sunday Lunch
Title: Sunday Lunch
Character: Jean
Released: May 22, 2015
Type: Movie
It's Sunday. During the course of the meal, Jean observes family members. They ask you questions without listening to the answers... It is normal, Sunday dinner.
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Stubborn
Title: Stubborn
Character: Vincent
Released: February 11, 2015
Type: Movie
For the sake of love, Vincent has followed Barbara to New York. But she wants nothing more to do with him. Obsessed with the idea of winning her back, he decides to see things through to the bitter end...
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Eden
Title: Eden
Character: Arnaud
Released: November 19, 2014
Type: Movie
Paul, a teenager in the underground scene of early-nineties Paris, forms a DJ collective with his friends and together they plunge into the nightlife of sex, drugs, and endless music.
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Truffaut au présent
Title: Truffaut au présent
Released: November 2, 2014
Type: Movie
Truffaut au présent is a film divided in three shorts; throughout "Acteurs", "Actrices" and "Couples" we explore François Truffaut's legacy and influence on contemporary French cinema.
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Fool Circle
Title: Fool Circle
Character: Bruno
Released: June 4, 2014
Type: Movie
Two, very different, brothers are reunited for their father's funeral. But, when they arrive at the crematorium nobody is there, not even the corpse, except for Chloe who introduces herself as their sister.
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Tonnerre
Title: Tonnerre
Character: Maxime
Released: January 29, 2014
Type: Movie
The story of Maxime, a 33-year-old musician, who has come to find refuge in his father’s home in the town of Tonnerre. There he will have the joy and the bad luck of meeting Mélodie, a 21-year-old girl trapped by her love for her childhood sweetheart. One and the other will not experience the same story at the same time, which will trigger a series of incidents.
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2 Autumns 3 Winters
Title: 2 Autumns 3 Winters
Character: Arman
Released: December 25, 2013
Type: Movie
At 33, Arman has decided to change his life. He starts by running. It’s a good start. Amélie carries on with her life. She runs, as well. The first encounter is a shock. The second is a stab in the heart.
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Age of Panic
Title: Age of Panic
Character: Vincent
Released: September 18, 2013
Type: Movie
May 6, 2012. Cable news reporter Laetitia is covering the French presidential elections, while Vincent, her ex-husband, demands to see their two young daughters. It's a manic Sunday in Paris: two agitated girls, a frazzled babysitter, a needy new boyfriend, a grumpy lawyer and France cut in half!
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The Rendez-Vous of Déjà-Vu
Title: The Rendez-Vous of Déjà-Vu
Character: Pator
Released: June 5, 2013
Type: Movie
Hector meets Truquette on Bastille Day and becomes obsessed with seducing her. The plan is to get her to the seaside pronto. Pator is not complaining, especially if her friend Charlotte comes along for the ride. So off they go, down the country roads of a broke and broken France. Times are hard ! Suddenly the government cancels a month of summer. Everyone back to work! A wad of cash and two gun shots later, the group splits in two like France itself. But careering away from work in no way daunts the remaining trio, dead set on relocating the Bastille Girl and reveling in an endless summer.
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Kingston Avenue
Title: Kingston Avenue
Character: Vincent
Released: May 2, 2013
Type: Movie
Vincent has followed the woman he loves to New York. But they're not getting along anymore. Stubborn, he's going to try to do everything to get her back.
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The Lizards
Title: The Lizards
Character: Léon
Released: February 2, 2013
Type: Movie
Accompanied by his buddy Bruno, Leon waits in this hammam where he made an appointment with a girl met on Internet. From strange meetings to vaporous revelations, our two heroes wait restlessly for the hypothetical coming of the mysterious stranger.
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Arman hors saison
Title: Arman hors saison
Character: Arman
Released: January 1, 2013
Type: Movie
At 33, Arman has decided to change his life. He starts by running and bumps into Amélie. From there, he will relentlessly seek her.
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Pour se frayer un chemin dans la jungle, il est bon de frapper avec un bâton pour écarter les dangers invisibles
Title: Pour se frayer un chemin dans la jungle, il est bon de frapper avec un bâton pour écarter les dangers invisibles
Released: January 1, 2013
Type: Movie
This short film is part of the clandestine dialogues of the Nicolas Klotz and Élisabeth Perceval’s 2015 feature, “Ceremony”.
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The Rule of Three
Title: The Rule of Three
Character: Vincent
Released: June 8, 2012
Type: Movie
Louis takes care of Vincent but expects that Marie manage it alone. The three of them spend an afternoon together and at the end of the day, they think the same thing: what's the point if I'm alone?
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A World Without Women
Title: A World Without Women
Character: Sylvain
Released: February 8, 2012
Type: Movie
A little sea resort on the Picardie coast, the last week of august. When handing over the keys to a rented apartment, Sylvain makes the acquaintance of two beautiful women. This is a fabulous occasion for him to escape his routine, single life in which women are a rarity, even if only for a few days. Quickly Sylvain's new friends can't do without him. Unfortunately, things get complicated when feelings and flirty Gilles, the local lady's man, get mixed up in it all.
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Le monde à l'envers
Title: Le monde à l'envers
Character: Thierry
Released: January 1, 2012
Type: Movie
Mado works at a supermarket. At 56 years old, she needs the job, but after being forced to use a goofy hat, she escapes to visit her son.
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I'm Your Man
Title: I'm Your Man
Character: Bruno
Released: October 11, 2011
Type: Movie
Bruno finally decided to move in with his new girlfriend, Camille. The very same day his ex-girlfriend shows up on his doorstep. And Bruno has sex with her. But, when he wants to remove himself, it's impossible to split the couple. Thus starts a desperate quest to unlock themselves before Camille comes.
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A Burning Hot Summer
Title: A Burning Hot Summer
Character: Achille
Released: September 28, 2011
Type: Movie
Paul reflects on the summer he met Angèle and Frédéric as he watches his friend being laid to rest.
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Day
Title: Day
Character: Client mécontent
Released: May 16, 2011
Type: Movie
Paris, a pivotal day in the life of Bianca, Thalat and Peter.
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Moonlight Lover
Title: Moonlight Lover
Character: Vincent
Released: January 1, 2011
Type: Movie
Two odd-job men, Franck and Vincent start work at a new site.
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Stranded
Title: Stranded
Character: Sylvain
Released: November 10, 2009
Type: Movie
Luc goes off on his bicycle to forget his problems. A suit of accidents make him spend the night in a little town of Picardie. He meets Sylvain, who tries to help him, for the best and the worst.
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On War
Title: On War
Released: October 1, 2008
Type: Movie
After a freak accident changes his perspective on life, a Parisian filmmaker meets a stranger who brings him to a commune that's populated by free-spirited women.
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Maybe Tomorrow
Title: Maybe Tomorrow
Released: January 1, 2008
Type: Movie
Harry wakes up next to a woman he met the day before. Just another woman. Harry’s a regular womanizer, but that day he starts wondering where his life is going.
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Man's Gentle Love
Title: Man's Gentle Love
Character: The waiter
Released: January 16, 2002
Type: Movie
This is the story of a young man at the dawn of the 21st century. He belongs to the most vulnerable, most futile and most appealing segment of society. Raoul flits from woman to woman, searching for seemingly unattainable love, until he meets Jeanne, who is fated to live freely and tragically.
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Replay
Title: Replay
Character: Henri
Released: August 22, 2001
Type: Movie
Nathalie and Louise are friends from childhood. While studying drama at University Louise becomes hopelessly obsessed with her friend. Jealous of the male friends she has she breaks up the friendship, followed by a suicide attempt. Later, Louise marries, but finds time to see the, by now quite accomplished actress, Nathalie. They fight through the years, La Repetition following them as their friendship comes together and breaks up frequently, while never actually reaching anything that can be called a climax.
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Les Indolents
Title: Les Indolents
Released: January 1, 1999
Type: Movie
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Close To The Sultan
Title: Close To The Sultan
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
An early 20th-century sultan is introduced to the cinematograph with the help of a former operator for the Lumiere brothers.
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Pourvu qu'il soit doux
Title: Pourvu qu'il soit doux
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
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Celui qui soigne Muganga
Title: Celui qui soigne Muganga
Character: Guy-Bernard Cadière
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
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La venue de l’Avenir
Title: La venue de l’Avenir
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
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L’Affaire de l’esclave Furcy
Title: L’Affaire de l’esclave Furcy
Character: Lory
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
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Sand
Title: Sand
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie