Niels Arestrup

Niels Arestrup

Niels Arestrup was a French actor, film director and screenwriter. His father was Danish and his mother was French. He has won two César Awards for Best Supporting Actor for De battre mon cœur s'est arrêté and Un prophète, both films where he was directed by Jacques Audiard.

  • Popularity : 9.917
  • Known For : Acting
  • Birthday : 1949-02-08
  • Place of Birth : Montreuil, Seine [now Seine-Saint-Denis], France
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Niels Arestrup Movies

  • 2005
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    The Beat That My Heart Skipped

    The Beat That My Heart Skipped

    6.9 2005 HD

    A ruthless real estate agent discovers a passion for piano and auditions with help from a young virtuoso, but the pressures of his corrupt career...

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  • 2007
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    The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

    The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

    7.57 2007 HD

    The true story of Elle France editor Jean-Dominique Bauby, who, in 1995 at the age of 43, suffered a stroke that paralyzed his entire body, except...

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  • 2009
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    A Prophet

    A Prophet

    7.595 2009 HD

    Sentenced to six years in prison, Malik El Djebena is alone in the world and can neither read nor write. On his arrival at the prison, he seems...

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  • 1982
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    Les Secrets de la princesse de Cadignan

    Les Secrets de la princesse de Cadignan

    1 1982 HD

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  • 1976
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    The Big Night

    The Big Night

    5.2 1976 HD

    In Lausanne, Léon is involved by accident with a small Leninist group and gets to know Léa, a dedicated activist and the group leader's...

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  • 2009
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    Farewell

    Farewell

    6.5 2009 HD

    An intricate thriller about an ordinary man thrust into the biggest theft of Soviet information of the Cold War. Right after the Soviet invasion of...

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  • 2007
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    The Candidate

    The Candidate

    5.4 2007 HD

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  • 2002
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    A Private Affair

    A Private Affair

    5.5 2002 HD

    Divorced private detective Francois Maneri is assigned by his agency to investigate the disappearance of Rachel, a young student who has been missing...

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  • 2011
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    You Will Be My Son

    You Will Be My Son

    6.315 2011 HD

    Paul de Marseul, a prestigious wine-maker and owner of a renowned chateau and vineyard in Saint-Emilion, is disheartened by the notion of his son...

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  • 1984
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    The Future Is Woman

    The Future Is Woman

    5.8 1984 HD

    In this improbable, ponderous story about a couple who do not want to have children of their own, and a pregnant, single woman who needs a home for...

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  • 2010
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    The Big Picture

    The Big Picture

    6.327 2010 HD

    Paul Exben is a success story – partner in one of Paris's most exclusive law firms, big salary, big house, glamorous wife and two sons straight...

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  • 1987
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    La Rumba

    La Rumba

    4.8 1987 HD

    Paris, 1938. In a lavishly decorated nightclub, couples dance the syncopated rhythms of Latin America: Rumba, Cucaracha, Tango, and also the...

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  • 2010
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    Sarah's Key

    Sarah's Key

    7.29 2010 HD

    On the night of 16 July 1942, ten year old Sarah and her parents are being arrested and transported to the Velodrome d'Hiver in Paris where thousands...

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  • 1979
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    Memoirs of a French Whore

    Memoirs of a French Whore

    6.3 1979 HD

    Marie is nineteen and bored in her little suburban life with no future. In a café, she meets the charismatic and beautiful Gerard. Blinded by...

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  • 1974
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    Je Tu Il Elle

    Je Tu Il Elle

    6.4 1974 HD

    A woman suffers a subdued psychological breakdown in the wake of a devastating breakup.

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  • 2010
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    Small World

    Small World

    6.4 2010 HD

    Conrad Lang, a handyman in a rich family - he has been raised like a brother with Thomas, who has the same age -, accidentally puts fire to the big...

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  • 2000
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    Lulu Kreutz's Picnic

    Lulu Kreutz's Picnic

    1 2000 HD

    Joseph and Olga Stegudith, who are elderly Parisians of Viennese Jewish extraction, come to luxurious Evian with Olga's brother Michel Mazelsky to...

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  • 2002
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    Parlez-moi d'amour

    Parlez-moi d'amour

    5.3 2002 HD

    Justine and Richard's 15-year relationship ends in separation due to irreconcilable differences with Justine maintaining custody of their three boys....

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  • 1987
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    Lorfou

    Lorfou

    1 1987 HD

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  • 2012
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    Our Children

    Our Children

    6.7 2012 HD

    Young and full of life, Murielle has a promising future ahead of her when she meets and falls head over heels for Mounir. A wedding soon follows, and...

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  • 1985
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    Diesel

    Diesel

    4.7 1985 HD

    A prostitute, released from prison, tries to change her life, but a murderous slave organization, the Consortium, is determined to bring her back to...

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  • 1982
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    One Man's War

    One Man's War

    6 1982 HD

    Via the New York Times: "...a dialogue between found objects... the remarkably calm, somewhat banal wartime journals of Ernst Junger, a German writer...

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  • 2023
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    Divertimento

    Divertimento

    7.05 2023 HD

    Zahia Ziouani, 17, dreams of becoming a conductor, while her twin sister Fettouma hopes to be a professional cellist. They want to make classical...

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  • 1991
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    Meeting Venus

    Meeting Venus

    5.8 1991 HD

    Celebrated Swedish opera star Karin Anderson is slated to appear in an internationally-telecast production of Tannhauser. Ms. Anderson balks at the...

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  • 1987
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    Doux amer

    Doux amer

    1 1987 HD

    A married woman, Anne Lambert has a child with her lover. But her lover becomes afraid and refuses to recognize the baby. Very invested in her...

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  • 1976
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    Lumière

    Lumière

    6.8 1976 HD

    Sarah, an actress nearing her forties, has invited 3 friends to join her for a holiday in Provence. This is the prologue for what happened a year ago...

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  • 1976
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    Tomorrow's Children

    Tomorrow's Children

    4 1976 HD

    The hero of this bleak science-fiction story is a married man who, along with his wife, survives the mysterious destruction of the world. After his...

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  • 2013
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    The French Minister

    The French Minister

    6.1 2013 HD

    Alexandre Taillard de Vorms is a force to be reckoned with. With his silver mane and tanned, athletic body, he stalks the world stage as Minister of...

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  • 1998
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    Rewind

    Rewind

    2.5 1998 HD

    Terrorist Paul Mansart, imprisoned in a maximum security prison, overcomes initial reluctance and agrees to experiment in “virtual...

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  • 1985
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    Sincerely Charlotte

    Sincerely Charlotte

    3.3 1985 HD

    In a most unusual, near menage a trois, Charlotte is a terrified young singer who is forced to hide out at the home of her ex-boyfriend -- her...

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  • 2014
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    Diplomacy

    Diplomacy

    7.009 2014 HD

    On the night of August 24, 1944, the fate of Paris rests with General von Choltitz, who plans to destroy the city on Hitler's orders. As the general...

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  • 2014
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    96 heures

    96 heures

    5.522 2014 HD

    Carré is the boss of the BRB (Brigade for the Repression of Banditry). 3 years earlier, he arrested a big mobster, Kancel. Today, thanks to an...

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  • 1977
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    Plus ça va, moins ça va

    Plus ça va, moins ça va

    4.1 1977 HD

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  • 1982
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    La Cerisaie

    La Cerisaie

    1 1982 HD

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  • 1985
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    Among Wolves

    Among Wolves

    4.1 1985 HD

    An American general with highly confidential defence information has been kidnapped by terrorists and is being held in a cliff-top fortress in the...

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  • 2014
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    The Dune

    The Dune

    6 2014 HD

    Through the course of several accidents and chance encounters, Hanoch and Ruben will meet and each of them will have to face a page of his personal...

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  • 1970
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    Tiens ferme ta couronne

    Tiens ferme ta couronne

    1 1970 HD

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  • 2006
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    Fragments of Antonin

    Fragments of Antonin

    6.4 2006 HD

    A psychiatrist who probes the mind of traumatized soldiers attempts to unlock the secret that drove a gentle but deeply-disturbed World War I veteran...

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  • 1976
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    A Second Chance

    A Second Chance

    5.929 1976 HD

    Imprisoned as an accessory to murder, Catherine gives birth to a son she conceived in prison. Eighteen years later, her sentence served, she is...

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  • 2015
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    By the Sea

    By the Sea

    5.6 2015 HD

    Set in France during the mid-1970s, Vanessa, a former dancer, and her husband Roland, an American writer, travel the country together. They seem to...

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  • 1994
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    Délit mineur

    Délit mineur

    1 1994 HD

    A teenager named Guillaume admits to being guilty of his father's murder in order to protect his dear mother.

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  • 1980
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    Bruges la Morte

    Bruges la Morte

    1 1980 HD

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  • 2015
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    So Long Africa

    So Long Africa

    5.5 2015 HD

    Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris, April 2011. Jacques and Safi arrive from Abidjan, from where they've been repatriated in an emergency. He's as...

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  • 1980
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    La Femme flic

    La Femme flic

    6.1 1980 HD

    Young police inspector Corinne Levasseur interrogated a dealer without the judge's consent. Following an indiscretion of her lover, the substitute...

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  • 1981
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    Alone

    Alone

    5.5 1981 HD

    Jean, the lead character in this psychological journey is torn by a search for his lost childhood, the overwhelming need to love a woman of his...

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  • 1988
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    Ville étrangère

    Ville étrangère

    1 1988 HD

    An Austrian diplomat assigned to Paris wakes up after having a strange nightmare and finds himself emotionally distanced from his world. He feels...

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  • 2017
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    Return to Montauk

    Return to Montauk

    5.8 2017 HD

    During a book tour in the United States, Max meets and falls in love with a young woman. Many years later, Max returns to the United States, hoping...

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  • 1988
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    La Ruelle au clair de lune

    La Ruelle au clair de lune

    7 1988 HD

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  • 1993
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    Albert Savarus

    Albert Savarus

    1 1993 HD

    Adaptation of the Balzac story as told by Rosalie, a young girl in love with the idea of her extraordinary neighbor, Albert Savarus, and the lengths...

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  • 2017
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    See You Up There

    See You Up There

    7.848 2017 HD

    In November 1918, a few days before the Armistice, when Lieutenant Pradelle orders a senseless attack, he causes a useless disaster; but his...

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  • 1974
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    Miss O'Gynie and the Flower Men

    Miss O'Gynie and the Flower Men

    1 1974 HD

    Pierre and Yves, two homosexuals, live a cozy love in a small Breton village until the arrival of Anne, the ex-girlfriend of Pierre, who will try to...

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  • 2018
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    At Eternity's Gate

    At Eternity's Gate

    6.9 2018 HD

    Famed but tormented artist Vincent van Gogh spends his final years in Arles, France, painting masterworks of the natural world that surrounds him.

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  • 1978
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    The Song of Roland

    The Song of Roland

    4.8 1978 HD

    Roland des Roncesvalles is a legendary knight from the age of chivalry in France. In the 11th-century epic La Chanson de Roland, he is depicted as a...

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  • 1977
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    The Sorceror's Apprentice

    The Sorceror's Apprentice

    6 1977 HD

    A thriller in which the characters are Latin-American exiles living in Paris. It is also a comedy about artists who play at revolution rather than...

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  • 2011
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    War Horse

    War Horse

    7.306 2011 HD

    On the brink of the First World War, Albert's beloved horse Joey is sold to the Cavalry by his father. Against the backdrop of the Great War, Joey...

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  • 1974
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    Stavisky...

    Stavisky...

    6.2 1974 HD

    Biarritz, 1933. Charm and talent help small-time swindler Serge Alexandre, alias Stavisky, to bribe his way into the centre of French political...

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  • 1992
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    La Femme abandonnée

    La Femme abandonnée

    1 1992 HD

    Tired of Parisian life, Louis de Nueil settles in a provincial village to rest from his hectic life. But he quickly gets bored. He then meets Fanny...

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  • 2010
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    Behind Bars

    Behind Bars

    1 2010 HD

    A documentary that chronicles how ‘A Prophet’ came to exist.

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  • 1995
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    Les Derniers Jours de la victime

    Les Derniers Jours de la victime

    1 1995 HD

    Mendizábal, a reputed hitman, is commissioned to eliminate Rodolfo Kulpe, a small-time criminal.

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  • 2021
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    Villa Caprice

    Villa Caprice

    5.521 2021 HD

    Famous lawyer, Luc Germon adds Gilles Fontaine, one of the most powerful bosses in France, to his clients. He is suspected of having acquired a...

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  • 2021
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    Jacques Audiard, le cinéma à cœur

    Jacques Audiard, le cinéma à cœur

    1 2021 HD

    In eight films, Jacques Audiard has renewed French cinema, without alienating either the critics or the success. It is only at the age of 42 that he...

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  • 1987
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    Charlie Dingo

    Charlie Dingo

    6 1987 HD

    Charlie (Guy Marchand) returns home after being declared legally dead to reclaim his wife Georgia (Caroline Cellier) and cash in on a lucrative life...

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  • 1982
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    Le Retour d'Elisabeth Wolff

    Le Retour d'Elisabeth Wolff

    1 1982 HD

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  • 1977
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    Tauwetter

    Tauwetter

    1 1977 HD

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  • 2000
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    Fernando Krapp m'a écrit cette lettre

    Fernando Krapp m'a écrit cette lettre

    1 2000 HD

    A French adaptation of Tankred Dorst's play "Fernando Krapp hat mir diesen Brief geschrieben", staged by Bernard Murat.

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  • 1982
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    La danse de mort

    La danse de mort

    1 1982 HD

    Alice and Edgar, nicknamed "The Captain", lead a rather miserable existence. They are embittered by life and reject each other's failures.

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  • 2007
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    The Candidate

    The Candidate

    5.4 2007 HD

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  • 2008
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    Le Temps des cerises

    Le Temps des cerises

    7 2008 HD

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  • 2007
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    The Candidate

    The Candidate

    5.4 2007 HD

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  • 2016
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    Baron Noir

    Baron Noir

    7.5 2016 HD

    In a tale of epic scale, French politician Philippe Rickwaert thirsts for revenge against his political enemies. Philippe’s political career is...

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  • 2009
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    Suite noire

    Suite noire

    5.1 2009 HD

    Step into a world of seedy seduction, sinister plots, bloody murder, and hard vengeance: the pulp-fueled realm of "Suite Noire."

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  • 1979
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    Le Tourbillon des jours

    Le Tourbillon des jours

    10 1979 HD

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  • 2022
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    Black Butterflies

    Black Butterflies

    6.869 2022 HD

    Low on inspiration for his second book, a gloomy novelist agrees to write a memoir for a dying man — and swiftly becomes part of his...

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  • 1972
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    Le Grand Échiquier

    Le Grand Échiquier

    8 1972 HD

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  • 1982
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    Champs-Elysées

    Champs-Elysées

    6.2 1982 HD

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  • 2015
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    Capitaine Marleau

    Capitaine Marleau

    5.8 2015 HD

    Beneath her eccentric appearance, Captain Marleau is a formidable detective. Her Sherlock Holmes deerstalker cap, her character, her unusual...

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