Catherine Jacob

Catherine Jacob

Catherine Jacob (born 16 December 1956) is a French film and theatrical actress who has won a César Award for her role in Life Is a Long Quiet River (1988), and was nominated for Best Supporting Actress in Tatie Danielle (1990), Merci la vie (1991) and Neuf mois (1994). She has been two-time president of the Lumières Award. She is known for her voice and her charisma. Born in Paris on 16 December 1956, Catherine Jacob spent part of her childhood and adolescence in Compiègne, where she was educated at primary school and then Pierre d'Ailly High School. Her father was a dental surgeon and her mother an orthodontist. She has a younger brother. After obtaining a diploma in architecture, Catherine Jacob moved to Paris. From 1978 to 1980, she studied acting at the Cours Florent, then located on Saint Louis Island. She started to act in the early 1980s as an extra in movies like Swann in Love by Volker Schlöndorff (1984), Les Nanas by Annick Lanoë (1985), State of Grace by Jacques Rouffio (1986) and Malady of Love by Jacques Deray (1987). She also appeared in TV movies and TV series like Dickie-roi by Guy Lefranc, Toutes griffes dehors by Michel Boisrond, Julien Fontanes, magistrat, Marie Pervenche, Sentiments and Qui c'est ce garçon? by Nadine Trintignant in minor roles. In 1985, she wrote and starred in her first one-woman show called Welcome to the Club, directed by Rémi Chenylle, drawing eleven portraits of characters. She appeared in several festivals with her show and toured with it the following year. In 1988 she played Marie-Thérèse in the cult film Life Is a Long Quiet River by Étienne Chatiliez. The movie was a huge success, and Jacob won the César Award for Most Promising Actress. She also played in the TV miniseries Le vent des moissons alongside Annie Girardot. That same year, she and Jacques Bonnaffé also had a huge success with the play Paris-Nord - Attractions pour noces et banquets. It was planned to be shown only for 10 nights, but due to the success, the play continued for three years. In 1989, she continued her tour with the play Paris-Nord - Attractions pour noces et banquets. She got a supporting role in Les Maris, les Femmes, les Amants by Pascal Thomas, with Jean-François Stévenin and Michel Robin. She starred in two TV movies: L'été de la révolution with Bruno Cremer and Brigitte Fossey and Le vagabond de la Bastille by Michel Andrieu. She also appeared in an episode of the TV series Imogène with Dominique Lavanant. In 1990, she ended her tour with the play Paris-Nord - Attractions pour noces et banquets after three years. She appeared in the second movie of the director Étienne Chatiliez, Tatie Danielle with Tsilla Chelton, Isabelle Nanty and Karin Viard. It was shown at the Toronto International Film Festival. The movie was again a big success at the box office, well received by the critics and became a cult movie. Jacob was nominated for the César Award for Best Supporting Actress. ... Source: Article "Catherine Jacob (actress)" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

  • Title: Catherine Jacob
  • Popularity: 4.682
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1956-12-16
  • Place of Birth: Paris, France
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  • 2003
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    Who Killed Bambi?

    Who Killed Bambi?

    6.1 2003 HD

    Isabelle, a beautiful nursing student, is starting her internship at a prestigious hospital. She meets Dr. Philip there, feels atracted to him from...

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  • 2022
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    Rumba Therapy

    Rumba Therapy

    6.2 2022 HD

    Tony is a macho middle-aged school bus driver in the provinces with no friends or relations. A sudden heart attack throws him into a tailspin. Tony's...

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  • 1988
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    Life Is a Long Quiet River

    Life Is a Long Quiet River

    6.7 1988 HD

    Two babies are switched at birth. When the mistake is discovered 12 years later, it leads to complications in the lives of both families. One family...

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  • 1991
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    My Father the Hero

    My Father the Hero

    5.6 1991 HD

    Veronique, living with her divorced mother, is going on holiday to Mauritius with her father. To impress a local boy, Benjamin, she manages to...

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  • 1990
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    Auntie Danielle

    Auntie Danielle

    6.527 1990 HD

    Tatie Danielle is a black comedy about a widow who is intent on ruining the lives of her great-nephew and his wife. Tsilla Chelton plays the title...

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  • 2006
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    Dikkenek

    Dikkenek

    6.7 2006 HD

    Jean-Claude is a loud-mouthed, know-it-all and full time boor who is best friends with Stef, a self-styled lady killer who would do better with the...

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  • 1991
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    Thank You, Life

    Thank You, Life

    6.31 1991 HD

    Camille, a naïve schoolgirl, meets an intriguing influence in Joelle, a slightly older and much more experienced spirit. Camille follows her new...

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  • 1998
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    Jeudi 12

    Jeudi 12

    1 1998 HD

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  • 2001
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    God Is Great and I'm Not

    God Is Great and I'm Not

    4.4 2001 HD

    Michèle, 20 years old, feels terrible after having broken up with her boy-friend. She meets Francois, who's a veterinarian and jewish....

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  • 2004
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    The First Time I Turned Twenty

    The First Time I Turned Twenty

    5.8 2004 HD

    In 1960s France, 16-year-old Hannah Goldman is experiencing a painful adolescence. Her Jewish background and plain appearance make her an object of...

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  • 2003
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    Corto Maltese: The Guilded House of Samarkand

    Corto Maltese: The Guilded House of Samarkand

    7.1 2003 HD

    Hugo Pratt's famous comics adventurer, Corto Maltese while sojourning in Adana, Turkey, discovers a map to the treasure of Cyrus, an ancient king of...

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  • 1995
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    Happiness Is in the Field

    Happiness Is in the Field

    6.9 1995 HD

    Francis, the boss of a small plumbing supply company, is harassed by tax collectors, striking employees, and an impossible wife and daughter. His...

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  • 1994
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    Neuf mois

    Neuf mois

    5.9 1994 HD

    Samuel est psychanalyste. Toute la journée, il voit des patients exprimer des griefs, en particulier des adolescents rebelles qui...

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  • 2008
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    48 Hours a Day

    48 Hours a Day

    4.6 2008 HD

    A young professional woman takes radical action to force her husband's help with the household chores.

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  • 1997
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    Gentlemen Children

    Gentlemen Children

    5.3 1997 HD

    To punish three troublemakers, Albert Castraing, their French teacher, gives them an essay to do, in which they must imagine what their lives would...

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  • 2006
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    The Pink Soldier

    The Pink Soldier

    5.5 2006 HD

    The plot of the musical is about a little boy who hides in the toy section of a department store at night, where the toys come to life.

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  • 1996
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    The Grand Dukes

    The Grand Dukes

    6.132 1996 HD

    Three aging and failed comedians, Georges Cox, Victor Vialat and Eddie Carpentier, hit the road again with a lousy production of a lousy play, of...

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  • 2008
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    Behind the Walls

    Behind the Walls

    6.5 2008 HD

    A young runaway rejects society's condemnation and dares to fulfill his dreams. France, 1930s. 14-year-old orphan Yves Tréguier sees the world...

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  • 2023
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    Un fil à la patte

    Un fil à la patte

    1 2023 HD

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  • 1986
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    State of Grace

    State of Grace

    3 1986 HD

    She is Florence Vannier-Buchet. Married to Protestant banker Jean-Marc Buchet. Florence leads a major sporting goods company with happiness and...

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  • 2006
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    Les Aristos

    Les Aristos

    4.5 2006 HD

    The Arbac de Neuvilles are one of the oldest families in France. They have inhabited their ancient château for fifty-two generations and are...

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  • 2000
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    Evasions

    Evasions

    6 2000 HD

    In the hot summer of 1940 the German troops are just outside Paris, and numerous Parisians are leaving the city in a complete panic. Luce Ader, the...

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  • 2001
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    J'ai faim !!!

    J'ai faim !!!

    4.9 2001 HD

    A chubby forty-ish florist is dumped for a gorgeous young woman. She decides to lose weight and to ruin her rival's life in order to win her handsome...

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  • 2011
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    Livid

    Livid

    5.873 2011 HD

    Lucie, Ben and William search an old woman's home for a hidden treasure and they encounter a series of supernatural events that change them forever.

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  • 2010
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    Thelma, Louise et Chantal

    Thelma, Louise et Chantal

    5.7 2010 HD

    Chantal, Gabrielle and Nelly, three fiftyish women, decide to make the trip to the wedding of an ex together.

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  • 2003
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    Atlantic Island

    Atlantic Island

    5 2003 HD

    Several boys aged seven to fourteen, have formed their own secret support group as a result of parental neglect and abuse. The group is however more...

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  • 2005
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    Quartier V.I.P.

    Quartier V.I.P.

    4.3 2005 HD

    Gardien à la Santé, Alex mène une petite vie tranquille aux côtés de son épouse Louisette et de son...

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  • 2011
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    Le Client

    Le Client

    3.8 2011 HD

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  • 2012
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    Bay of Algiers

    Bay of Algiers

    3.9 2012 HD

    The writer Louis Gardel remembers his youth in Algeria. In 1955, Louis is 15 years old and lives with his grandmother Zoé. Zoé is...

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  • 2007
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    La Méthode Bourchnikov

    La Méthode Bourchnikov

    7 2007 HD

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  • 1994
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    Girls with Guns

    Girls with Guns

    4.2 1994 HD

    In Montelimar, four young women whom life has not spared want to emerge from mediocrity. They decide to rob a bank, but everything is not so simple...

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  • 1992
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    The Girl in the Air

    The Girl in the Air

    6.4 1992 HD

    Who would have expected Brigitte to marry a prisoner with a long sentence in the first place? In this romantic action movie, that is only the first...

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  • 1989
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    The Husbands, the Wives, the Lovers

    The Husbands, the Wives, the Lovers

    4.5 1989 HD

    In the summer holidays, a group of women stay behind in Paris whilst their husbands and children take a vacation on the sunny Island of Ré....

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  • 1996
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    Oui

    Oui

    2 1996 HD

    Can sex make you less of an asshole? One summer, nine friends stop thinking about their sex life in the wrong way and all learn to give pleasure and...

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  • 2010
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    Notre Dame des Barjots

    Notre Dame des Barjots

    6 2010 HD

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  • 2013
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    Je vous présente ma femme

    Je vous présente ma femme

    5 2013 HD

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  • 2014
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    Everything Goes Wild

    Everything Goes Wild

    6 2014 HD

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  • 1998
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    Let There Be Light!

    Let There Be Light!

    6 1998 HD

    God comes to Earth in order to make a film.

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  • 2013
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    Les Vieux Calibres

    Les Vieux Calibres

    5 2013 HD

    In search of the excitement of their youth, four retired people play gangster and make plans to rob the till in their retirement home. But when they...

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  • 2014
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    Divorce French Style

    Divorce French Style

    5 2014 HD

    Ariane, a young French violinist, accepts the marriage proposal of Christen, an irresistible conductor. Only problem: she's a little bit ... married!...

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  • 2011
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    Gérald K. Gérald

    Gérald K. Gérald

    5.2 2011 HD

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  • 1993
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    The Thirst for Gold

    The Thirst for Gold

    5.4 1993 HD

    Urbain Donnadieu's first love is money. It's also his second, third and fourth love. The only reason he married - a tax inspector named Fleurette -...

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  • 2010
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    Roses à crédit

    Roses à crédit

    4.8 2010 HD

    A young couple marry in France in the 1940s and the film follows the arc of their marriage over the next decade. As France recovers from the trauma...

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  • 1997
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    La Vie à trois

    La Vie à trois

    1 1997 HD

    The arrival of a first child disrupts the life of a young couple who had been living a free and carefree existence until then.

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  • 1997
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    La Ballade de Titus

    La Ballade de Titus

    1 1997 HD

    Once upon a time, Titus was locked up in a cellar by his adoptive parents with only a television set, a VCR... and five hundred cartoon tapes......

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  • 1997
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    XXL

    XXL

    3.2 1997 HD

    Tunisian-Jewish businessman Alain Berrebi (Michel Boujenah) courts Ashkenazi princess Arlette Stern (Elsa Zylberstein). Her father David (Maurice...

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  • 2000
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    The Heart at Work

    The Heart at Work

    4.6 2000 HD

    A porn film director convinces his producer to make a romantic film, but the cast is grappling with tensions in their private lives.

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  • 1970
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    A lovely summer afternoon

    A lovely summer afternoon

    1 1970 HD

    Four Parisian friends spend an afternoon with a friend in the countryside. However, he is suffering from a minor psychological problem with paranoid...

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  • 1994
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    Dieu que les femmes sont amoureuses

    Dieu que les femmes sont amoureuses

    7 1994 HD

    Anne divides her time between her children, a 16-year-old son and twins Lili and Lolotte and her work as an editor. Her life is turned upside down by...

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  • 2002
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    La Torpille

    La Torpille

    6.1 2002 HD

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  • 2003
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    Corto Maltese: Under the Sign of Capricorn

    Corto Maltese: Under the Sign of Capricorn

    6.941 2003 HD

    In 1916, laconic adventurer Corto Maltese is in Paramaribo, Surinam visiting his mystic female friend Java. He helps a young heir haunted by voodoo...

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  • 2016
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    Hidden Kisses

    Hidden Kisses

    7.562 2016 HD

    Nathan, 16, lives alone with his father Stephane. A newcomer in high school, he is invited to a party and falls in love with Louis, a boy in his...

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  • 2016
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    Josephine, Pregnant & Fabulous

    Josephine, Pregnant & Fabulous

    5.8 2016 HD

    At last, Josephine has found her perfect non-smoker-cat-loving-amazing-cook-perfect-man-soulmate. They’ve been in love for two years and...

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  • 2006
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    L'enfant d'une autre

    L'enfant d'une autre

    1 2006 HD

    A successful businesswoman thinks she has found her daughter, whom she lost when she was six months old...

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  • 2017
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    Un jour mon prince

    Un jour mon prince

    3.7 2017 HD

    There are almost a hundred years that The Sleeping Beauty is asleep No prince charming responsible for waking found favor in his eyes or, if it does...

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  • 2017
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    This Is Our Land

    This Is Our Land

    5.8 2017 HD

    Pauline, a devoted and generous home help nurse, raises her two children alone, while also looking after her father, a former steelworker. Taking...

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  • 2017
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    Like Mother, Like Daughter

    Like Mother, Like Daughter

    5.713 2017 HD

    An attention-craving mother nearing 50, unemployed and living with her pregnant daughter and son-in-law, suddenly finds herself with child, too...

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  • 1996
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    The Orinoco Dam

    The Orinoco Dam

    6 1996 HD

    After the accidental death of her husband, Dominique Vallorie agrees to take over the construction of an important dam on the Orinoco River. She does...

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  • 1999
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    Qui mange qui ?

    Qui mange qui ?

    6.5 1999 HD

    A young health inspector takes on the restaurant of her lover who betrayed her.

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  • 2008
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    La Maison Tellier

    La Maison Tellier

    1 2008 HD

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  • 1987
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    Malady of Love

    Malady of Love

    5 1987 HD

    Two physicians, one old and one young, fall in love with the same woman, Juliette, a quixotic hairdresser. First, she is with Raoul, the older one;...

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  • 2005
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    Désiré Landru

    Désiré Landru

    5.8 2005 HD

    Désiré Landru - husband, lover - and murderer. Based on documented facts, this is the full story of one of the most ambiguous criminals...

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  • 2011
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    Demain, je me marie

    Demain, je me marie

    5 2011 HD

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  • 2018
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    To Each, Her Own

    To Each, Her Own

    5 2018 HD

    Just as Simone works up the courage to tell her conservative Jewish family she's a lesbian, she finds herself attracted to a male Senegalese chef.

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  • 2014
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    It's Never Too Late

    It's Never Too Late

    6.2 2014 HD

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  • 1996
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    Let's Hope It Lasts

    Let's Hope It Lasts

    2 1996 HD

    Joseph and Victor are two motorcyclists of the national police force and inseparable friends. If the first leads a tidy life with wife and child, the...

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  • 2019
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    Murder on Reunion Island

    Murder on Reunion Island

    5.7 2019 HD

    The heir of a geranium farm meets a strange death.

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  • 2002
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    Qui mange quoi ?

    Qui mange quoi ?

    6.5 2002 HD

    Rose, a health and fraud inspector, wants to have a child with Marc, a biologist in the same organization as her. But first, she decides to settle...

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  • 2004
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    Qui mange quand ?

    Qui mange quand ?

    5 2004 HD

    Two young parents are desperate to regain more defined roles when they realize that their son does not know his father from his mother.

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  • 2016
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    Trois mariages et un coup de foudre

    Trois mariages et un coup de foudre

    4.5 2016 HD

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  • 2012
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    Ten Minutes from Naturists

    Ten Minutes from Naturists

    4.9 2012 HD

    Family caretakers Brussels advantage of the absence of his patrons to exchange a beautiful property against a holiday villa in Sunset Island ... They...

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  • 2021
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    100% Organic

    100% Organic

    5.2 2021 HD

    The daughter of a Basque butcher brings her new boyfriend — a Parisian vegan — home to meet her family.

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  • 2020
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    Hortense

    Hortense

    6.1 2020 HD

    An apparently well-rounded woman hides a secret wound: her daughter Hortense was taken from her as she was only 3.

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  • 2014
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    Lili Rose

    Lili Rose

    4.5 2014 HD

    Worker or poker player, Samir and Xavier live from day to day. Bright young woman and future bride, Liza has a future all traced. They and she find...

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  • 2021
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    Papy fait de la résistance

    Papy fait de la résistance

    6 2021 HD

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  • 2005
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    Louise

    Louise

    1 2005 HD

    Forty-year-old Joanne Guiberry runs a modest hairdressing salon in Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon. Twice a year, at each solstice, she brightens up her...

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  • 1998
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    Théo et Marie

    Théo et Marie

    6 1998 HD

    After the arrest of his mother, who is accused of collaboration, 14-year-old Theo decides to go join his grandfather in Paris. On the road he meets...

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  • 1989
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    L'Été de la Révolution

    L'Été de la Révolution

    1 1989 HD

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  • 1998
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    Tout le monde en parle

    Tout le monde en parle

    5.1 1998 HD

    Tout le monde en parle is a French talk show broadcast on France 2 from September 5, 1998 to July 8, 2006. It was hosted by Thierry Ardisson and...

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  • 1985
    imgS21 E173

    Télématin

    Télématin

    4.5 1985 HD

    Télématin is a French breakfast television news show, broadcast on France 2 since January 7, 1985. It is broadcast in Metropolitan...

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  • 2015
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    Cassandre

    Cassandre

    6.4 2015 HD

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  • 2012
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    La Parenthèse inattendue

    La Parenthèse inattendue

    8.5 2012 HD

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  • 2003
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    L'Adieu

    L'Adieu

    1 2003 HD

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  • 2012
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    Our dear neighbors

    Our dear neighbors

    4.7 2012 HD

    Large family or recomposed, teenagers tortured by their hormones, mothers overwhelmed family, students and party rascals, pretty sexy neighbor,...

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  • 2009
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    Scènes de ménages

    Scènes de ménages

    6.2 2009 HD

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  • 2013
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    Murders in...

    Murders in...

    7.2 2013 HD

    Murders in... is a collection of French-Belgian police TV movies taking place each time in a different French city and region.

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  • 2015
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    Folie passagère

    Folie passagère

    6 2015 HD

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  • 2013
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    La Famille Katz

    La Famille Katz

    1 2013 HD

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  • 2018
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    Les Impatientes

    Les Impatientes

    6 2018 HD

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  • 1989
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    Les Jupons de la révolution

    Les Jupons de la révolution

    1 1989 HD

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  • 2004
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    Colette, une femme libre

    Colette, une femme libre

    10 2004 HD

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  • 2024
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    The New Look

    The New Look

    7.6 2024 HD

    The shocking story of how fashion icon Christian Dior and his contemporaries including Coco Chanel, Pierre Balmain, and Cristóbal Balenciaga...

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  • 1990
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    Les Nuls, l'émission

    Les Nuls, l'émission

    8.4 1990 HD

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  • 2006
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    Le Cri

    Le Cri

    1 2006 HD

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  • 1980
    imgS1 E25

    Julien Fontanes, magistrat

    Julien Fontanes, magistrat

    1 1980 HD

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  • 1982
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    Champs-Elysées

    Champs-Elysées

    6.2 1982 HD

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  • 2020
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    Les Copains d'abord

    Les Copains d'abord

    5 2020 HD

    Faced with eviction, two neighboring families will risk everything to continue living together — even if it’s the worst idea...

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  • 1998
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    Vivement dimanche

    Vivement dimanche

    3.2 1998 HD

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