Karin Viard
Karin Viard (born 24 January 1966) is a multi-award-winning French actress. She made her film debut in Tatie Danielle in 1990. Since then she has appeared in such films as Delicatessen, L'Emploi du temps (Time Out), Adultère, mode d'emploi and La parenthèse enchantée. She was a member of the 2003 Cannes Film Festival jury.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.828 |
| Birthday | 1966-01-24 |
| Place of Birth | Rouen, Seine-Maritime, France |
| Also Known As | Карин Вьяр, Карін В’яр, |
1991
Delicatessen
7.314/1616
In a post-apocalyptic world, the residents of an apartment above the butcher shop receive an occasional delicacy of meat, something that is in low sup...
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Delicatessen
2021
Saddle Up For Revenge
5.1/27
Parody of the acclaimed Australian series of the 80s, Return to Eden. Wealthy heiress Stephanie Harper marries athlete Craig Danners, without suspecti...
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Saddle Up For Revenge
1990
Auntie Danielle
6.532/235
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 cha...
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Auntie Danielle
2002
Summer Things
5.82/103
Two couple of friends, one very rich, the other almost homeless, decide to go on Holiday. Julie, a single mother, joins them too. Once at seaside, it...
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Summer Things
2008
Paris
6.459/352
Pierre, a professional dancer, suffers from a serious heart disease. While he is waiting for a transplant which may (or may not) save his life, he has...
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Paris
2022
An Ordinary Mother
5.9/27
Aline never managed to get closure from the death of her 17-year-old son in a street fight. When she sees the assai- lant recently released from priso...
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An Ordinary Mother
2005
The Ax
6.913/223
Bruno loved his job as a middle manager at a paper company, but optimistically views being laid off as an opportunity. After two years of searching fo...
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The Ax
2004
The Ex-Wife of My Life
4.717/23
Six years after their split, a woman attempts to get her ex-husband back by unusual means.
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The Ex-Wife of My Life
1997
Hikers
5.689/222
A quartet of Parisians embark upon a guided hike in Corsica and end up working through the sometimes comical chaos of their individual lives.
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Hikers
2008
Hikers in Saint-Tropez
4.969/80
Ten years after their disastrous walking holiday in Corsica, four friends – Cora, Nadine, Mathieu and Louis – decide to spend the summer together on t...
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Hikers in Saint-Tropez
2001
Time Out
6.704/93
An unemployed man finds his life sinking more and more into trouble as he hides his situation from his family and friends.
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Time Out
2004
The Hook
6.3/10
A writer of novels in need of an editor accepts the contract offered to him by a famous writer: to eliminate his ex-wife against a large sum of money.
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The Hook
2009
Change of Plans
5.386/176
So called friends at a dinner party end up acting like a dysfunctional family.
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Change of Plans
2009
All About Actresses
5.9/109
A director wants to make a documentary about actresses, all actresses: the popular ones, the unknown ones, the intellectuals, the comedians, the forgo...
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All About Actresses
2008
Baby Blues
5.1/10
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Baby Blues
1999
Sitcom, A Movie
4.75/10
In the morning, two friends, a producer and an actor, discover the corpse of a young woman who accompanied them the previous night. The shooting of th...
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Sitcom, A Movie
2003
France Boutique
4.942/43
Francois Cluzet and Karin Viard are the couple behind a French shopping channel whose business and marriage are both drifting towards the rocks, with...
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France Boutique
2001
Children's Play
4.855/31
Marianne and Jacques are a young middle-class couple who live in a chic Parisian apartment with their two young children. One day, Marianne receives a...
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Children's Play
2005
The Children
5.591/11
Pierre Esteban is a middle-aged technology teacher, divorced from Hélène, who has two children. Jeanne Lancry is a lively estate agent in the same sit...
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The Children
1999
The Children of the Century
5.911/45
True tale of the tumultuous love affair between two French literary icons of the 19th Century, novelist George Sand and poet Alfred de Musset. But the...
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The Children of the Century
1999
The New Eve
5.378/41
Camille is an emancipated 30-something woman who has no desire to settle down and have a family, preferring to coast along on a succession of ephemera...
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The New Eve
2005
Hell
6.066/44
Three sisters who share a connection to a violent childhood incident reunite for the chance to come to terms with their past.
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Hell
1994
Le fils préféré
6.593/27
Jean-Paul Mantegna, the son of Italian immigrants now living in Nice, is a hunted man, riddled with debt and involved in borderline illegal companies....
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Le fils préféré
2001
A Hell of a Day
6.333/18
Some days turn out to be simply unforgettable. For Marie, it all starts with a pregnancy test… that proves positive, a car accident and being fired fr...
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A Hell of a Day
2011
Polisse
7.763/1306
Paris, France. Fred and his colleagues, members of the BPM, the Police Child Protection Unit, dedicated to pursuing all sorts of offenses committed ag...
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Polisse
2009
Happy End
5.5/69
Robinson, appropriately named as we will soon discover, is on vacation in Biarritz with his wife. What follows is the story behind the loss of his arm...
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Happy End
2010
Trophy Wife
6.122/385
In 1977 France, tightfisted factory owner Robert Pujol is so shocked when his workers strike for higher wages that he suffers a heart attack. His acqu...
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Trophy Wife
2010
Nothing to Declare
5.873/1174
During the elimination of the Belgian/French border in the 90s, a Belgian customs officer is forced to team up with one of his French counterparts.
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Nothing to Declare
2000
Enchanted Interlude
5.333/12
Summer 1969 on the Mediterranean coast. Paul and Vincent are childhood buddies. On a beach one day, they meet Alice and her friend Eve. After a series...
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Enchanted Interlude
2007
True Enough
5.2/13
Anne is an attractive woman on the cusp of middle age trying in vain to divide her time fairly between her demanding job as a television presenter and...
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True Enough
2007
La Face cachée
6.1/6
François and Isa have been living side by side for years. François strums fruitlessly on his piano and makes half-hearted attempts to build a wall cab...
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La Face cachée
2013
Le Débarquement
5.1/14
Inspired by the American program Saturday Night Live from NBC, around thirty actors take part in various humorous sketches.
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Le Débarquement
2010
My Father's Guests
5.9/51
A human-rights activist takes in an illegal immigrant and her daughter, then shocks his family when they learn that he has married the sexy 28-year-ol...
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My Father's Guests
2007
Ambitious
4.8/24
On the one hand you have Judith Zahn, an arrogant, snobbish, Parisian editor. On the other hand meet Julien Demarsay: an insecure, timid, young bookse...
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Ambitious
2007
In Mom's Head
5.1/17
Lulu's mother is depressed and has been as far back as she can remember, Lulu is determined to discover the truth behind her listlessness.
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In Mom's Head
2011
My Piece of the Pie
5.699/193
France, a factory worker, lives with her three daughters in Dunkirk. The factory where she worked has been closed, leaving France and all of her workm...
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My Piece of the Pie
2004
The Role of Her Life
6.047/32
A humble copy editor becomes a personal assistant to her favorite actress and eventually loses herself both in the actress' demands and her own ego.
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The Role of Her Life
1999
Battle Cries
6.167/15
A woman in the fourth month of her first pregnancy fights to save the baby while being treated for breast cancer.
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Battle Cries
1994
La Séparation
6.141/32
In Paris, a simple rejected gesture at a movie theater reveals growing cracks between Pierre and Anne. As they go about their daily lives, an unexplai...
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La Séparation
2012
On Air
5.9/75
At 40, Molina is the most famous radio host in France: she hosts a nightly call-in show where she answers questions from callers with sexual and emoti...
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On Air
1996
Diary of a Seducer
5.429/7
Student Claire lives with her mother, Anne, and Sebastien — a young man Claire brought home out of pity who is now trying to seduce them both. At scho...
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Diary of a Seducer
2012
Yann Piat: A Chronicle of Murder
6.2/6
February 25, 1994, Yann Piat is executed at point blank range by two gunmen on a motorcycle. Its first victories for the FN in 1986 to his ambition in...
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Yann Piat: A Chronicle of Murder
1995
Adultery (A User's Guide)
4.143/14
This French farce chronicles one special day in the lives of a married pair of Parisian architects, Fabienne and Bruno, as they anxiously await the re...
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Adultery (A User's Guide)
2023
Sage homme
7.1/201
After failing the medical entrance exam, Léopold enters midwifery school by default, hiding the truth from those around him. While he is unconvinced o...
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Sage homme
2022
Maria into Life
5.928/83
Maria is a cleaning lady, who is reserved, shy and clumsy. When she is assigned to the School of Fine Arts, she meets Hubert, the school's whimsical g...
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Maria into Life
2024
Madame de Sévigné
5.2/39
In the middle of the 17th century, the Marquise de Sévigné wanted to make her daughter a brilliant and independent woman in her own image. But the mor...
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Madame de Sévigné
2023
Magnificat
6/25
When an elderly priest died, the people in charge of his diocese discovered that it was a woman. Without anyone suspecting it, she had been practicing...
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Magnificat
1995
Emmène-moi
6/4
Authentically painful study of an ill-matched couple's forlorn attempts to revive their relationship after a two-year break.
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Emmène-moi
1996
Fourbi
5.233/15
Writer Paul attempts to interview Rosemonde, a young woman who killed an alleged rapist in self-defense six years prior, for a true crime television p...
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Fourbi
2013
Love Is the Perfect Crime
5.6/112
Marc, in his 40s, is a professor of literature at the University of Lausanne. Still a bachelor — and still living with his sister Marianne in a huge,...
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Love Is the Perfect Crime
2013
Lulu in the Nude
6.1/86
After a job interview gone wrong, Lulu sets sail leaving her husband and three children behind. But being an adventurer is easier said than done.
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Lulu in the Nude
2013
Le Débarquement 2
5.5/6
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Le Débarquement 2
1996
Les Victimes
6.333/3
Paris, 1996. Parisian editor Pierre Duval has an affair with Claire, wife of wealthy architect Bernard Jaillac. The latter has to supervise a large-sc...
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Les Victimes
2014
Week-ends
4.2/31
It sometimes takes little to spoil a weekend in the country. A simple misunderstanding in a supermarket parking lot, a bad reaction, and there you go,...
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Week-ends
2025
Prime Rush
5.063/17
The week after the French elections, the President must appoint his prime minister. In exchange for a higher position, ambitious young parliamentary a...
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Prime Rush
2014
The Chef's Wife
5.1/80
The wife of a successful chef feels unfulfilled in her rôle as dining-room hostess and consults career counselor, who is herself dissatisfied by her u...
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The Chef's Wife
2023
New Beginnings
5.853/85
Alain and Diane have been together for 30 years. In his mind, Alain is still 30 years old. But the equation 30 years of routine feelings, empty nest (...
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New Beginnings
2023
Strangers by Night
6.3/69
In a crowded subway train, a woman pushes a man. They argue. Their little joust "barks loudly", but does not lack charm... Later, in the corridors of...
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Strangers by Night
2021
Teach Me If You Can
6.6/7
The three teachers Svetlana, Sandrine and Taslima teach children and young people in places that are hardly accessible for “normal” lessons - in a nom...
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Teach Me If You Can
2014
The Bélier Family
6.941/2472
The whole Bélier family is deaf, except for sixteen year old Paula who is the important translator in her parents' day to day life especially when it...
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The Bélier Family
2024
Rire (enfin) au féminin
0/0
For a long time, in France, comedy was the preserve of men. Female roles were mostly secondary and corresponded to stereotypes such as the pretty doll...
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Rire (enfin) au féminin
2015
Lolo
5.314/390
On holiday in the south of France, chic Parisian sophisticate Violette meets life-loving IT geek Jean-René. Against all odds, there’s a real chemistry...
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Lolo
2016
The Visitors: Bastille Day
4.162/718
Stuck in the corridors of time, Godefroy de Montmirail and his faithful servant Jacquouille are projected to a time of profound political and social u...
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The Visitors: Bastille Day
2015
Families
4.6/97
Jérôme Varenne, a French financier, lives and works in Shanghai with Chen-Li, his life and business partner. One day, during a short stay in Paris, wh...
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Families
1993
Ce que femme veut...
8/1
Cécile is twenty. She is expecting a child from Pierre, who is thirty-five. She goes through her pregnancy with peace of mind. Quite unlike Pierre, wh...
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Ce que femme veut...
2023
Wow!
5.2/86
Catherine and Oracio are real estate advisors, and are visiting two properties in quick succession: a large bourgeois house "which can have a swimming...
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Wow!
2015
21 Nights with Pattie
5.7/95
During the height of summer, Caroline, a forty-year-old Parisian and mother, arrives in a small village in the south of France. She must hastily organ...
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21 Nights with Pattie
2015
The Roommates Party
4.913/269
An unusually cold winter forces the french government to push the best housed people to accommodate some poor fellow citizens. The decree called "Le G...
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The Roommates Party
1993
Sidestroke
5/7
Clara (Karin Viard) is a stripper with a high-strung, jealous boyfriend with the curious name of Loockeed (Antoine Chappey). The couple are friends wi...
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Sidestroke
2025
Before What Comes After
5.9/26
In a kind of philosophical dialogue, Doctor Augustin Masset and renowned writer Fabrice Toussaint discuss life and death… A whirlwind of encounters in...
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Before What Comes After
2016
A Bun in the Oven
5.5/122
There is one thing that Nicole, who is soon turning fifty, would have loved to be spared, is to learn that the symptoms that have been ruining her lif...
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A Bun in the Oven
2011
Skylab
6/75
It is 1979 and Albertine, 10, and all her family members have gathered in Brittany to celebrate the birthday of her grandmother. Everyone thinks that...
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Skylab
1996
Une visite
9/1
Carole sees her parents twice a year in Paris.
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Une visite
1997
Rouen, cinq minutes d'arrêt
8/2
On a sunday, Marguerite and Mario meet while waiting for the train.
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Rouen, cinq minutes d'arrêt
1993
Urgence d'aimer
4.4/5
Joëlle, a simple and energetic young woman, works as a hairdresser for Mrs. Delbarre. When Professor Thibaud, a great bone specialist, asks her to don...
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Urgence d'aimer
1992
Little Nothings
6.17/50
Lepetit, an ambitious and determined man, is named the new CEO of a department store. His mission is to improve the store's financial position. He dec...
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Little Nothings
1995
Fast
6/22
Jean-Louis is an naive, amiable orphan who spent his life with his elderly and very strict grandfather. Jean-Louis was a 25-year old virgin when a fre...
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Fast
1991
25 décembre 58, 10h36
0/1
Two children are cycling in a street of the Butte Montmartre, one of them falls and kills himself on the spot. The witnesses of the tragedy meet again...
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25 décembre 58, 10h36
1986
L'Amour en marche
9/1
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L'Amour en marche
1997
Où tu vas
8/1
Fired from his work and left by his girlfriend, Jean falls into despair
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Où tu vas
1993
Elles étaient trois
7/1
Three girls are stopped on the side of the road. A man drives by and stops to meet them.
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Elles étaient trois
1993
Zone Bleue
7/1
In a neighborhood threatened of destruction and where a majority of marginalized people live, Violette, a painter finds her friend Pierre.
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Zone Bleue
2013
It Happened in Saint-Tropez
5.308/78
Zef’s stormy relationship with his brother Roni is further aggravated when Roni marries his daughter just as he is attending to his wife’s funeral. Th...
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It Happened in Saint-Tropez
2002
Mes copines
8/1
Anne is thirty six ears old, her friends decide to organize a surprise birthday party where boys are excluded.
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Mes copines
1997
Je ne vois pas ce qu'on me trouve
5.2/5
24 hours in a man's life who became famous. He returns in his childhood's city after 30 years of absence
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Je ne vois pas ce qu'on me trouve
1990
La mort d'une vache
8/1
In the Normandy countryside, a simpleton is fascinated by cows.
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La mort d'une vache
1991
L'Amant de ma sœur
9/1
Story about Elise and Helene, two sisters who do everything alike.
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L'Amant de ma sœur
1996
Une journée entière sans mentir
7/1
Vincent and Claire are in their thirty's. They meet at Vincent's flat where he starts playing a perverse game.
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Une journée entière sans mentir
1991
Strangers dans la nuit
7/1
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Strangers dans la nuit
1991
Les gens ne sont pas forcément ignobles
5/2
A fight happens during a a big party organized by a couple for their housewarming
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Les gens ne sont pas forcément ignobles
1992
Rhesus-Romeo
7/1
When Professor Thibaud, a great bone specialist, asks Joëlle, a simple young girl, to donate her bone marrow in view of a transplant, she agrees witho...
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Rhesus-Romeo
1986
La Goula
7/1
In a hypermarket, a young overweight cashier named "La Goula" is the target of her colleagues' mockery.
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La Goula
2017
Jealous
5.9/242
A divorced teacher suddenly becomes jealous of everyone, including her daughter, friends and neighbors.
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Jealous
2018
Little Tickles
7.368/382
Odette is a 8-yr-old girl who loves to dance and draw. Once she has become an adult, Odette realizes she was abused, and immerses herself body and sou...
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Little Tickles
2018
Kiss & Tell
5.7/147
Sequel to 2002's "Summer Things" (Embrassez qui vous voudrez). This French comedy follows various people in two families. Bertrand and his wife, Eliza...
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Kiss & Tell
2011
L'Amour, la Mort, les Fringues
7/2
They stick to our skin and soul, our clothes. We believe we buy them, they own us. Warning ! these rags are traitors: far from dressing us they expose...
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L'Amour, la Mort, les Fringues
2018
Bécassine !
4.8/65
Born to a poor farming family in Brittany, Bécassine finds work as a nanny with the Marquise de Grand-Air who has recently adopted a lovely baby named...
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Bécassine !
2019
Perfect Nanny
6/250
When Myriam, the mother of two young children, decides, despite the reluctance of her husband to resume her activity in a law firm, the couple is look...
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Perfect Nanny
2020
Dear Mother
5.738/214
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...
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Dear Mother
2020
Appearances
5.8/128
Ève and Henri are among the happy few of the French community in Vienna. They are “la crème de la crème”. The perfect picture crumbles when Ève discov...
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Appearances
1995
La Haine
8.084/4516
After a chaotic night of rioting in a marginal suburb of Paris, three young friends, Vinz, Hubert and Saïd, wander around unoccupied waiting for news...
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La Haine
2021
Fantasies
5.1/122
Faced with their fantasies, six couples try to explore the hidden sides of their intimate life. Six questions on access to pleasure. From role play to...
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Fantasies
2021
Tokyo Shaking
6.1/44
March 11, 2011. The biggest tsunami Japan has ever experienced triggers the Fukushima disaster. Risks are being downplayed but the foreign community i...
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Tokyo Shaking
2022
Three Times Nothing
6.101/69
Twig, Cap and Rusty live however they can in the Bois de Vincennes, east of Paris. This may completely change the day they learn they are the national...
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Three Times Nothing
2026
A Place for Her
8.618/34
At the Maison des Femmes, women victims of violence are cared for. Elsewhere, they are threatened, brutalized, raped, mutilated, their suffering ignor...
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A Place for Her
Man's Skin
0/0
In 1480, or thereabouts, as Princess Blanche prepares to unite with the handsome prince of a neighboring kingdom, her father decides to marry her to M...
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Man's Skin
2025
Suzanne Valadon, peintre sans concession
6/2
Suzanne Valadon (1865-1938) did not seem destined for a life as an artist. Born in 1865 as the daughter of a single washerwoman and mother herself at...
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Suzanne Valadon, peintre sans concession
2026
Sanguine
0/0
Margot has always dreamed of becoming a doctor. While struggling to keep up with the grueling pace of the emergency room where she's taking her first...
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Sanguine
Le cœur fou
0/0
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Le cœur fou
2026
Une fille en or
5.5/5
On the day Clémence realizes that no one has ever admired her, her father dies. Lulled by the illusions of the remnants of a complicated childhood, Cl...
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Roxie au milieu
0/0
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Parade nuptiale
0/0
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