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La Vie en Rose

La Vie en Rose (2007) more movies like this

directed by Olivier Dahan
featuring Marion Cotillard, Sylvie Testud, Pascal Greggory, Emmanuelle Seigner, Jean-Paul Rouve, Clotilde Courau, Jean-Pierre Martins, Catherine Allegret, Marc Barbé, Gérard Depardieu

Writer/director Olivier Dahan (Crimson Rivers II) helmed La Vie en Rose, the screen biopic of tragic French songstress Edith Piaf. Marion Cotillard portrays Piaf, the superstar once raised as a young girl by her grandmother in a Normandy bordello, then discovered on a French street corner -- as a complete unknown -- by cabaret proprietor Louis ...

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The Music Teacher

The Music Teacher (1989) more movies like this

directed by Gerard Corbiau
featuring Jose van Dam, Anne Roussel, Philippe Volter, Sylvie Fennec, Johan Leysen

The title character in the Belgian-French The Music Teacher is a retired opera star, played by Jose Van Dam. The teacher's most gifted pupil is singer/musician Anne Roussel. Her love for her teacher is one of the motivating factors of the story, as is Roussel and Van Dam's relationship with another pupil, petty thief Philippe Volter. Complicating ...

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The Château

The Château (2002) more movies like this

directed by Jesse Peretz
featuring Paul Rudd, Sylvie Testud, Didier Flamand

Two siblings with practically nothing in common are brought together by a real estate deal that threatens to leave them even more at odds than they were before in this semi-improvised comedy. Graham (Paul Rudd) and Rex (Romany Malco) are about as different as two brothers can get -- Graham is sloppy, lackadaisical, and in a state of puzzled ...

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La Captive

La Captive (2000) more movies like this

directed by Chantal Akerman
featuring Stanislas Merhar, Sylvie Testud, Olivia Bonamy, Liliane Rovere, Françoise Bertin

Inspired by Proust's short story La Prisonniere, renowned filmmaker Chantel Akerman creates this challenging meditation on love, desire, and obsession. The film opens with grainy Super-8 footage showing Ariane (Sylvie Testud) and her female friends rollicking on a beach. Now Ariane lives in third empire splendor in the tony Parisian apartment that ...

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Small Change

Small Change (1976) more movies like this

directed by François Truffaut
featuring Geary Desmouceaux, Jean-François Stévenin, Philippe Goldman, Sylvie Grezel, Pascale Bruchon

L'Argent de Poche (Small Change) is an episodic comedy drama composed of several sequences that explore childhood in director François Truffaut's signature humanistic style. Filmed in Thiers in South Central France, each vignette is seen from the point of view of a kid from two weeks to 14 years old. There is no real plot, just little scenes ...

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Tomorrow We Move

Tomorrow We Move (2004) more movies like this

directed by Chantal Akerman
featuring Sylvie Testud, Aurore Clément, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Natacha Régnier, Lucas Belvaux

Director Chantal Akerman helmed this offbeat comedy about a mother and daughter who find themselves living together again for the first time in many years. Still reeling emotionally from the recent death of her husband, Catherine (Aurore Clément) has chosen to leave her old home and move in with her grown daughter, Charlotte (Sylvie Testud). While ...

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Murderous Maids

Murderous Maids (2000) more movies like this

directed by Jean-Pierre Denis
featuring Sylvie Testud, Julie-Marie Parmentier, Isabelle Renauld, Dominique Labourier, Jean-Gabriel Nordmann

Based on the same infamous murders that inspired Jean Genet's play The Maids, and the earlier film Sister My Sister, this French drama explores the difficult family life, professional pressures, and forbidden bond that in 1933 led sisters Christine and Lea Papin to murder the mother and daughter who employed them as maids. Based on Paulette ...

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L'Argent

L'Argent (1983) more movies like this

directed by Robert Bresson
featuring Christian Patey, Sylvie van den Elsen, Michel Briguet, Caroline Lang, Vincent Risterucci

The last film by veteran writer/director Robert Bresson, the French crime drama L'Argent (Money) was based on a short story by Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy. Looking for some quick cash, young man Norbert (Marc Ernest Fourneau) gets a phony 500 franc note from his friend Matrial (Bruno Lapeyre). After he spends it at a photography shop, the ...

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Thérèse

Thérèse (1986) more movies like this

directed by Alain Cavalier
featuring Catherine Mouchet, Helene Alexandridis, Aurore Prieto, Sylvie Habault

The legend of Therese Martin, canonized as a saint and popularly known as "the Little Flower of Jesus," is affectionately related in this 1986 French film. At 15, Therese (Catherine Mouchet) enters the convent, hoping to become a Carmelite nun. While preparing for her life as a "Bride of Jesus," Therese begins keeping a journal, eloquently pouring ...

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Stupeur et Tremblements

Stupeur et Tremblements (2004) more movies like this

directed by Alain Corneau
featuring Sylvie Testud, Kaori Tsuji, Taro Suwa, Bison Katayama, Yasunari Kondo

French director Alain Corneau delves into the painfully irrational world of office politics, which are further complicated by a severe case of culture clash in his 2003 comedy, Stupeur et Tremblements (Fear and Trembling). Based on the similarly titled memoirs of author Amélie Nothomb and her employment experiences with a Japanese mega-corporation ...

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Thérèse Raquin (1953) more movies like this

directed by Marcel Carné
featuring Simone Signoret, Raf Vallone, Jacques Duby, Roland Le Saffre, Sylvie

The grim Emile Zola "naturalist" novel Therese Raquin has been vividly cinematized by director Marcel Carne. Simone Signoret plays the title character, the long-suffering housewife who dreams of a more romantic life-partner than the bourgeois Camille (Jacques Duby). Therese enjoys a torrid affair with burly truck-driver Laurent (Raf Vallone), only ...

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Dead Man's Memories (2003) more movies like this

directed by Markus Heltschel
featuring Sylvie Testud, Miguel Guilherme, Klaus Pohl, Ana Bustorff, Rita Blanco

Markus Heltschel writes and directs the whodunit Der Glässerne Blick (Dead Man's Memories), a co-production of Austria and Germany. Prolific French actress Sylvie Testud stars as Alice, a music student from Vienna who travels around Lisbon. Portuguese actor Miguel Guilherme plays the detective, Pinto, who investigates the murder of archeologist ...

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The Return of Martin Guerre (1982) more movies like this

directed by Daniel Vigne
featuring Gérard Depardieu, Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu, Roger Planchon, Nathalie Baye, Sylvie Meda

The Return of Martin Guerre is set in France during the Hundred Years' War. Imagining herself a widow, Nathalie Baye is astonished when her husband Gerard Depardieu returns after nine years. He looks like her husband and sounds like her husband, and certainly has a working knowledge of the couple's prior relationship. Still, neither Baye nor her ...

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Familia (2005) more movies like this

directed by Louise Archambault
featuring Emily Holmes, Macha Grenon, Micheline Lanctôt, Sylvie Moreau, Juliette Gosselin, Mylene St. Sauveur

The influence of genetics and the ability to identify oneself as a separate entity from family lineage lies at the heart of award-winning short-filmmaker Louise Archambault's slice of life drama concerning a nomadic mother and her teenage daughter. Affectionately known as Mimi by her friends, Michèle (Sylvie Moreau) is an aerobics instructor with ...

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Sylvie Courvoisier Trio: Abaton (2007) more movies like this

directed by Anaïs Prosaïc
featuring Sylvie Courvoisier, Makr Feldman, Anja Lechner, Marielle Girard, Cyril Davy

Three popular avant garde musicians headline the concert film Sylvie Courvoisier Trio: Abaton: German cellist Anja Lechner, Manhattan-based violinist Mark Feldman, and the Swiss composer-pianist Courvoisier. In this set, the trio performs Courvoisier's 2004 composition Abaton; dances by Cyril Davy and Marielle Girard and graphic animations by ...

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The Parable of the Christ (2006) more movies like this

directed by George David Jiha
featuring Mick Shane, Sylvie Hoffer, Todd Dylan, Michelle Russo, Mike Ellis

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Post Mortem (1999) more movies like this

directed by Louis Bélanger
featuring Gabriel Arcand, Sylvie Moreau, Helene Loiselle, Sarah Lecompte-Bergeron, Ghislain Taschereau

In this tough French-Canadian drama, two outsiders -- one who works with the law, another who lives outside it -- come together with unfortunate consequences. Linda (Sylvie Moreau) is a devoted single mother who will do anything to support her five-year-old daughter, Charlotte (Sarah Lecompte-Bergeron). Unfortunately, a lot of what Linda does best ...

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Le Miracule (1986) more movies like this

directed by Jean-Pierre Mocky
featuring Michel Serrault, Jean Poiret, Jeanne Moreau, Sophie Moyse, Sylvie Joly, Jean Rougerie

Insurance investigator Ronald Fox Terrier (Michel Serrault) looks into a questionable claim of disability feigned by Papu (Jean Poiret) in this situation comedy. When both men are dunked into the waters at a holy shrine, the faking Papu finds himself unable to get out of his wheelchair, while Ronald's mute voice is miraculously restored. Terrier ...

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Le Petit Monde de Don Camillo (1952) more movies like this

directed by Julien Duvivier
featuring Fernandel, Gino Cervi, Franco Interlenghi, Vera Talqui, Sylvie

Orson Welles provides the voice of God in this farce starring Fernandel as Don Camillo, a vicar who causes trouble for the town's communist-leaning mayor. Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide

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