Dominique Lavanant

Dominique Lavanant

Dominique Lavanant (born 24 May 1944) is a César Award-winning French film and theatrical actress. She is known for her comedy skills especially with posh and distinguished characters like Rosalind Russell's; characters often defined by the adjective BCBG, bon chic bon genre, and which refers to a particular stereotype of the French upper middle class – to be conservative in both outlook and dress. Dominique Lavanant achieved fame in the mid-1970s while filming Les bronzés with the acting troupe Le Splendid (Gérard Jugnot, Josiane Balasko, Michel Blanc, Thierry Lhermitte, Christian Clavier, Marie-Anne Chazel).Her stardom has kept growing ever since. Her filmography includes many successful films: Papy fait de la résistance, La boum, Trois hommes et un couffin, Les bronzés font du ski, Inspecteur la Bavure (alongside Gérard Depardieu). In 1988, she was awarded Best supporting actress for her role in Agent trouble (with Catherine Deneuve). She also starred in the long-lasting French TV series Sœur Thérèse.com (2002-2011) playing a former policer who became a nun but is still a committed detective. Source: Article "Dominique Lavanant" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

  • Popularity : 3.35
  • Known For : Acting
  • Birthday : 1944-05-24
  • Place of Birth : Morlaix, Finistère, France
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Dominique Lavanant Movies

  • 1980
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    The Party

    The Party

    6.6 1980 HD

    A thirteen-year-old French girl deals with moving to a new city and school in Paris, while at the same time her parents are getting a divorce.

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  • 1987
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    Agent Trouble

    Agent Trouble

    6 1987 HD

    Amanda Weber is a museum employee. Her nephew, Victorien, who feels that wild animals should not be kept in zoos, while hitchhiking saw a mysterious...

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  • 1988
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    A Few Days with Me

    A Few Days with Me

    5.8 1988 HD

    After being discharged from a mental institution, a man is tasked by his mother to revive a struggling supermarket in Limoges. He must navigate...

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  • 1985
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    Three Men and a Cradle

    Three Men and a Cradle

    6.3 1985 HD

    Three young men - Jacques, Pierre, and Michel - share an apartment in Paris, and have many girlfriends and parties. Once, during a party, a friend of...

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  • 1979
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    The Other One's Mug

    The Other One's Mug

    5.6 1979 HD

    Martial Perrin is the president of a right-wing political party which is gearing itself up for a forthcoming election. When he learns that a...

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  • 2008
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    Agathe Cléry

    Agathe Cléry

    4.832 2008 HD

    Agathe Clery, a marketing manager for a cosmetics company, is snobbish, stubborn and racist. When she is diagnosed with Addison Syndrome, an disorder...

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  • 1978
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    French Fried Vacation

    French Fried Vacation

    6.566 1978 HD

    Holidaymakers arriving in a Club Med camp on the Ivory Coast are determined to forget their everyday problems and emotional disappointments. Games,...

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  • 2006
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    French Fried Vacations 3: Friends Forever

    French Fried Vacations 3: Friends Forever

    4.075 2006 HD

    After the Club Med and skiing, what happened to the Bronzés 27 years later? Early response: the same, and worse.

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  • 1980
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    Inspector Blunder

    Inspector Blunder

    6.3 1980 HD

    A detective, fresh out of the academy (lowest mark in class), gets the assignment to bodyguard a spoiled rich girl reporter. She's been interviewed...

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  • 1979
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    French Fried Vacation 2

    French Fried Vacation 2

    7.342 1979 HD

    In this sequel to Les Bronzes (1978) summer has passed, but that doesn't mean the fun has to end for Bernard, Nathalie, Gigi, Jerome, Popeye,...

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  • 1985
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    Rendez-vous

    Rendez-vous

    5.6 1985 HD

    Nina is a young, carefree actress who arrives in Paris searching for her big break. There, she finds drama both on- and offstage as she becomes...

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  • 2010
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    The Wedding Cake

    The Wedding Cake

    5.2 2010 HD

    The wedding of Vincent and Berenger does not begin well. For starters, the fabulous cake for the reception falls apart as the butler of the...

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  • 1980
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    The Horse of Pride

    The Horse of Pride

    5.9 1980 HD

    In early twentieth-century Brittany, two peasants marry, have a son, and live in traditional Breton ways: three generations under one roof, a...

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  • 1996
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    Desire

    Desire

    5.6 1996 HD

    Désiré is a fine servant and butler who regularly seduces the ladies of the house where he works, but then he moves on. This time he is...

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  • 1993
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    A Shadow of a Doubt

    A Shadow of a Doubt

    6.2 1993 HD

    Aline Issermann's "Shades of Doubt" ("L'Ombre du Doute"), a French film about a wrenching family crisis, is set forth with remarkable restraint. The...

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  • 1984
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    Paroles et musique

    Paroles et musique

    5 1984 HD

    When Peter, Margaux's American writer husband, leaves Paris in a funk and heads home, she finds herself the single parent of two near teens. She also...

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  • 1976
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    Femmes Fatales

    Femmes Fatales

    6.2 1976 HD

    Two men, fortyish, worn out by their wives, abandon everything to go and live in the back of beyond. There they meet a truculent priest, a boozer,...

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  • 1986
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    I Hate Actors

    I Hate Actors

    5.4 1986 HD

    A Hollywood studio is producing another spectacular when the top billed male stars suddenly show up as corpses, killed before the critics could ever...

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  • 1986
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    Death on a Rainy Sunday

    Death on a Rainy Sunday

    4.8 1986 HD

    Thriller about a psycho looking for revenge. Bronsky is a paraplegic because of an accident at a construction site that was partly due to the head...

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  • 1982
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    Is There a Frenchman in the House?

    Is There a Frenchman in the House?

    5.4 1982 HD

    An official's earlier rise to power had some sordid aspects that are about to be uncovered by the death of his uncle. While he is trying to contain...

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  • 1986
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    Kamikaze

    Kamikaze

    6.2 1986 HD

    A disgruntled scientist is fired from his job; slipping into madness, he invents a machine which harnesses the airwaves and can shoot people through...

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  • 1985
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    Marriage of the Century

    Marriage of the Century

    5.3 1985 HD

    Princess Charlotte is scheduled to marry a boring duke, but before that event happens, Paul has taken a bet that he can seduce her. He does, profits...

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  • 1978
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    Take It from the Top

    Take It from the Top

    5.4 1978 HD

    Tired of being a housewife, Annie wants to work. Between her professional life and her responsibilities as a parent, she can no longer cope. She...

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  • 1983
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    Gramps Is in the Resistance

    Gramps Is in the Resistance

    6.872 1983 HD

    It is 1943 in Paris. Like so many others, the Bourbelle family's home has been taken over by the Germans and they now live in their cellar. Little do...

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  • 1984
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    La Smala

    La Smala

    5.1 1984 HD

    When the mother of a "tribe" of five children leaves for good, their inept father is not sure how to keep the family clothed and fed, and without the...

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  • 1991
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    The Professional Secrets of Dr. Apfelgluck

    The Professional Secrets of Dr. Apfelgluck

    5.3 1991 HD

    This series of sketches introduces doctor Apfelglück and four of his patients... and their rather peculiar and disturbing problems.

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  • 1986
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    The Joint Brothers

    The Joint Brothers

    5.3 1986 HD

    After he is dismissed from his umpteenth job, Momo is kicked out of the family home by his fed-up father. He immediately joins his buddy Manu, who is...

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  • 1983
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    My Other Husband

    My Other Husband

    5.9 1983 HD

    A woman leaves her husband and marries another man without divorcing the first.

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  • 1981
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    Men Prefer Fat Girls

    Men Prefer Fat Girls

    5.2 1981 HD

    Lydie, a physically unattractive young woman, is brutally dumped by her fiancé when she had just acquired the lease of an apartment to live...

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  • 2004
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    Madame Edouard

    Madame Edouard

    4.4 2004 HD

    In Brussels, one discovers the bodies of young women buried behind the tombs of famous painters… In each of them, it lacks the right forearm....

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  • 2001
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    A Crime in Paradise

    A Crime in Paradise

    6.582 2001 HD

    In the 1980 French countryside, farmer Jojo and his ill-tempered wife Lulu hate each other, though their respective interests speak against divorce....

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  • 1978
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    Butterfly on the Shoulder

    Butterfly on the Shoulder

    6 1978 HD

    On a stopover in Barcelona, Fériaud Roland discovers a corpse in the hotel room next door. He wakes up in a strange clinic without remembering...

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  • 1992
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    Ville à vendre

    Ville à vendre

    4.5 1992 HD

    A man comes to a small town in France and witness the apparent murder of a woman pharmacist. He teams up with the victim's vulgar assistant to try to...

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  • 1981
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    Hotel America

    Hotel America

    6.2 1981 HD

    Helene, a pill-addicted anesthesiologist, is mourning the death of her boyfriend when, through a car accident she causes, she chances to meet the...

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  • 1987
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    L'Œil au beur(re) noir

    L'Œil au beur(re) noir

    5.5 1987 HD

    Denis and Rachid, a black and an Algerian, are looking for an apartment in Paris. Both meet Virginie, whocould rent them the vacant apartment of her...

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  • 1976
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    Marie, the Doll

    Marie, the Doll

    6 1976 HD

    Marie, who was orphaned as a young girl, has a case of arrested development that makes her act younger than her age. One day she stops to look in a...

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  • 1977
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    As the Moon

    As the Moon

    6.1 1977 HD

    Normandy, France, 1976. After 2 years of wild love with Nadia, Pouplard - unemployed heating engineer, working in his girlfriend's butcher's -...

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  • 1981
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    Is This Reasonable?

    Is This Reasonable?

    6.2 1981 HD

    A young journalist comes from Nice to Paris to meet with the famous judge, Simon, hoping he will help her understand a case. She does not know that,...

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  • 1977
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    You Won't Have Alsace-Lorraine

    You Won't Have Alsace-Lorraine

    4.8 1977 HD

    Whilst King Gros Pif I amuses himself at debauched banquets, his musketeers pursue their tax-collecting duties with a malicious zeal. Goaded by the...

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  • 1985
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    Billy Ze Kick

    Billy Ze Kick

    5 1985 HD

    Billy Ze Kick is name of a fictional serial killer in a bedtime story that a police inspector reads to his daughter. Soon three girls turn up...

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  • 1983
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    Entre Nous

    Entre Nous

    6.7 1983 HD

    In 1942 in occupied France, a Jewish refugee marries a soldier to escape deportation to Germany. Meanwhile a wealthy art student loses her first...

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  • 2012
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    Sex, Lies and Surgery

    Sex, Lies and Surgery

    5.6 2012 HD

    John - conscientious and romantic - and Michael - thoughtless and unfaithful - are surgeons at their father’s private hospital. John felt madly...

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  • 1991
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    Cross My Heart

    Cross My Heart

    7 1991 HD

    Young Martin has been acting strange. At his school, his teacher and classmates notice that he is less talkative and more withdrawn. When those...

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  • 1981
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    Pourquoi pas nous ?

    Pourquoi pas nous ?

    5.9 1981 HD

    A wrestler and a bookseller disgraced by life fall in love with each other.

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  • 2012
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    Paulette

    Paulette

    6.5 2012 HD

    Paulette lives alone in a housing project in the Paris suburbs. With her meager pension, she can no longer make ends meet.

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  • 1984
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    The Leopard

    The Leopard

    5.9 1984 HD

    A former secret agent, who retired and wrote a first novel which tells the eventful adventures of his hero "Le Léopard ", comes back to work,...

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  • 2013
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    Le Renard jaune

    Le Renard jaune

    5.5 2013 HD

    Charles Senac, author of a single novel but crowned by the Prix Goncourt, is hated by the regulars of the bar-restaurant "Le Renard jaune" who...

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  • 1986
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    Le Débutant

    Le Débutant

    4 1986 HD

    The journey strewn with adventures of François Veber, electrician who decides to embark on the theater. For his passion, he leaves his wife....

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  • 1979
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    Courage fuyons

    Courage fuyons

    6 1979 HD

    At forty years old, Martin Belhomme leads a quiet life with his wife and two children. One day, he falls hopelessly in love with Eva, a cabaret...

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  • 2023
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    L'Âge d'or de la pub

    L'Âge d'or de la pub

    6.5 2023 HD

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  • 1985
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    All Mixed Up

    All Mixed Up

    5.2 1985 HD

    After the death of her little boy, Anita wants to take her own life.

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  • 1978
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    House Specialty

    House Specialty

    5.3 1978 HD

    Sophie Tatischeff's short film set in the small town of Sainte-Sévère-sur-Indre, three decades after its use in her father's film 'Jour...

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  • 2014
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    Nicholas on Holiday

    Nicholas on Holiday

    5.345 2014 HD

    It's the end of the school year. The long-awaited moment of the holidays is arrive. The little Nicolas, her parents and Grandma take the road towards...

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  • 1975
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    Cookies

    Cookies

    6.3 1975 HD

    Henri Serin (Jean-Pierre Marielle), an umbrella salesman, leads a quiet life between his work, his family and his passion for painting. During his...

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  • 1985
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    The Chicks

    The Chicks

    3.6 1985 HD

    Focuses primarily on three women and the (unseen) man who goes in and out of their lives. One member of this trio is a saleswoman with an open...

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  • 2003
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    Les Bronzés, le père Noël, papy et les autres

    Les Bronzés, le père Noël, papy et les autres

    1 2003 HD

    Les Bronzés, le Père Noël, Papy et les autres....Discover or rediscover the emblematic scenes of these cult films that have...

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  • 2016
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    L'île aux femmes

    L'île aux femmes

    6.9 2016 HD

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  • 1994
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    The Monster

    The Monster

    6.96 1994 HD

    A vicious serial sex killer is on the loose, and landscape gardener and shop-window outfitter Loris is the prime suspect, thanks to his unfortunate...

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  • 1973
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    The Big Store

    The Big Store

    6.317 1973 HD

    Four guys working for a small grocer in trouble, declare war on a new giant neighborhood supermarket by attempting several coups. A film about the...

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  • 1988
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    L'Excès contraire

    L'Excès contraire

    7 1988 HD

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  • 1994
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    Dead Tired

    Dead Tired

    6 1994 HD

    Stressed and overworked, famous French movie star Michel Blanc is beginning to wear down, physically and mentally, from the pressure and demands of...

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  • 1990
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    Un jeu d'enfant

    Un jeu d'enfant

    1 1990 HD

    During the war in 1941, Antoine, 9, lived with his grandparents in Gironde. His mother prefers to keep him away in the free zone, with his cousins,...

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  • 1994
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    Ma sœur est un chic type

    Ma sœur est un chic type

    1 1994 HD

    Pierre is about to meet his brother for the first time. He is shocked to discover that his brother... is a woman!

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  • 1983
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    Stand Up Crabs, the Sea Is Rising!

    Stand Up Crabs, the Sea Is Rising!

    3.2 1983 HD

    Barely out of prison, where she spent five long years, a pretty prostitute sows disorder in the life of a hitherto peaceful couple.

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  • 1976
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    Silence... We're Shooting

    Silence... We're Shooting

    1 1976 HD

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  • 1980
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    Umbrella Coup

    Umbrella Coup

    6.9 1980 HD

    Grégoire Lecomte, the unlucky actor anxious to find a "real job", goes to take a screen test for a role of a killer, but gets to mafiosi by...

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  • 2013
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    À votre bon cœur, mesdames

    À votre bon cœur, mesdames

    5 2013 HD

    The story of a septuagenarian, recently divorced, which in its reconstruction desire and quest for a new companion will rediscover the small...

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  • 1979
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    A Little Romance

    A Little Romance

    6.8 1979 HD

    Intellectually precocious teenager Lauren King lives in Paris with her somewhat ditzy mother. On a movie set, she strikes up a friendship with...

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  • 2016
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    Rouges étaient les lilas

    Rouges étaient les lilas

    6 2016 HD

    In a Paris suburb condominium, after the death of a young woman's boyfriend, a strange and deadly game of death begins between three women living...

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  • 1979
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    Cause toujours... tu m'intéresses

    Cause toujours... tu m'intéresses

    6.2 1979 HD

    François Perrin is a journalist who reads the news on RTL radio. Alone in life, his only "amusement" is his neighbor from Africa, who makes...

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  • 1987
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    Keep Your Right Up

    Keep Your Right Up

    5.9 1987 HD

    This film is made up several sketches in which certain actors play several real or fictional roles to a background of rock music. The lead character,...

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  • 1977
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    Peppermint Soda

    Peppermint Soda

    6.4 1977 HD

    In the fall of 1963, Anne is becoming a teenager. She lives in Paris with her mother and her older sister, Frédérique. They're just...

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  • 1974
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    Parade

    Parade

    5.6 1974 HD

    For his final film, Jacques Tati takes his camera to the circus, where the director himself serves as master of ceremonies. Though it features many...

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  • 1992
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    My Wife's Girlfriends

    My Wife's Girlfriends

    4 1992 HD

    A man discovers the qualities of his wife's friends, whom he had always hated.

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  • 1978
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    French Fried Vacation

    French Fried Vacation

    6.566 1978 HD

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  • 1994
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    Ma sœur est un chic type

    Ma sœur est un chic type

    1 1994 HD

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  • 1985
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    Victoires de la musique

    Victoires de la musique

    2 1985 HD

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  • 1987
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    Nulle part ailleurs

    Nulle part ailleurs

    5.6 1987 HD

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  • 1998
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    Vivement dimanche prochain

    Vivement dimanche prochain

    3.4 1998 HD

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  • 1989
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    Imogène

    Imogène

    3 1989 HD

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  • 2009
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    Scènes de ménages

    Scènes de ménages

    6.2 2009 HD

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  • 1988
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    Palace

    Palace

    6.7 1988 HD

    The action takes place - as the title suggests - in a Palace, a really nice hotel. Funny scenes happen in different places: the kitchen, the...

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  • 2002
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    Sœur Thérèse.com

    Sœur Thérèse.com

    6.9 2002 HD

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  • 1987
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    Sacrée soirée

    Sacrée soirée

    6.2 1987 HD

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  • 1974
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    Spécial cinéma

    Spécial cinéma

    1 1974 HD

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  • 1972
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    Le Grand Échiquier

    Le Grand Échiquier

    8 1972 HD

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  • 1975
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    Les Rendez-vous du dimanche

    Les Rendez-vous du dimanche

    6 1975 HD

    A talk show presented by Michel Drucker

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  • 1975
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    Numéro un

    Numéro un

    6 1975 HD

    A French variety show.

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  • 1982
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    Champs-Elysées

    Champs-Elysées

    6.2 1982 HD

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  • 1975
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    Midi Première

    Midi Première

    10 1975 HD

    Midi Première is a French variety show presented by Danièle Gilbert, directed by Jacques Pierre and broadcast from January 6, 1975...

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  • 1998
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    Vivement dimanche

    Vivement dimanche

    3.2 1998 HD

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  • 1988
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    Cinéma

    Cinéma

    8 1988 HD

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