Dominique Pinon
Birthday: 1955-03-04
Place of Birth: Saumur, Maine-et-Loire, France
Biography: After studying at the Faculty of Arts of Poitiers, Dominique Pinon moved to Paris where he enrolled at the Cours Simon acting school. His introducing appearance in cinema took place in 1981 in the movie Diva by Jean-Jacques Beineix. Pinon is considered to be a theatre actor in first place, with constant on-stage acting since 1985. Until today, he has appeared in the plays of Gildas Bourdet, Jorge Lavelli, Valère Novarina and numerous others. His career in cinema, counting more than 80 movies to-date, shows a strong collaboration with director Jean-Pierre Jeunet. Amongst these 8 movies dating from between 1990 and 2013, it is most notably his appearances in Delicatessen (1991), Alien Resurrection (1997) and Amélie (2001) which made him become known to the broader public outside of France. Pinon also had numerous appearences on French TV, both in movies as well as in series. His most recent international appearance on TV is that of the character Master Raymond in the second season of the award-winning TV series Outlander. He received the Molière theatre award for Best Actor in 2004 and was awarded the title of Officier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 2014.
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Amélie
At a tiny Parisian café, the adorable yet painfully shy Amélie accidentally discovers a gift for hel...
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Delicatessen
In a post-apocalyptic world, the residents of an apartment above the butcher shop receive an occasio...
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The City of Lost Children
A scientist in a surrealist society kidnaps children to steal their dreams, hoping that they slow hi...
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A Fishy Business in Saint-Pierre et Miquelon
An actress, Céline, is hired by the famous director Milan Zodowski to star in a mysterious film shoo...
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A Very Long Engagement
Young Frenchwoman Mathilde searches for the truth about her missing fiancé, lost during World War I,...
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The French Revolution
A history of the French Revolution beginning from the decision of the king to convene the Etats-Gene...
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La Baston
After doing some time in jail, René has finally said goodbye to his criminal past. But when his son ...
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Beautiful Memories
Although barely 30, Claire believes she is showing the first symptoms of Alzheimer's disease, a cond...
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Alien Resurrection
Two hundred years after Lt. Ripley died, a group of scientists clone her, hoping to breed the ultima...
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Shot Pattern
A Paris flea market vendor is transformed into a vigilante after his fiancée is murdered by three vi...
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Mortadelo & Filemon: The Big Adventure
In the Headquarters of the T.I.A. (Terminal Intelligence Agency), someone has stolen Professor Bacte...
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The Oxford Murders
At Oxford University, a professor and a grad student work together to try and stop a potential serie...
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Car Cemetery
The plot is set in a post apocalyptic Junkyard where people take refuge from authority and are able ...
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Ghost Dance
Through the experiences of two women in Paris and London, Ghost Dance offers an analysis of the comp...
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Quasimodo d'el Paris
The location is the town of El Paris. When ten-year-old boy Quasimodo shows signs of deformity, his ...
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Micmacs
While standing in the doorway of the video shop where he works, Bazil is inadvertently shot in the h...
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Noisy Neighbours
A grotesque, frenetic and musical short film from Jérome Lefdup, Dominik Barbier, and Larry Flash....
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Darkhunters
Walking the Earth as an undead spirit has Charlie Jackson in a quandary. Unable to interact with his...
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Hellbreeder
Five years ago Alice saw her son murdered; now every day is consumed with the need to find his kille...
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Le Rêve du Phenix
"...The budget was 500,000 francs, financed by the Ministry of Culture, the OCTET agency in Populus ...
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Hamlet Within
A radical cinematic investigation into the myth of Hamlet, the avenging prince of Denmark, William S...
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Dante 01
Deep space, at the edge of the galaxy. The future. A new prisoner arrives on top security prison shi...
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Crossed Tracks
The successful novelist Judith Ralitzer is interrogated in the police station about the disappearanc...
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At Home with the Rozes
Two ex-convicts, MG and Gilbert find refuge in a charming middle-class house whose couple is about t...
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Mint Tea
A young Algerian in Paris has not been as successful as he claims in letters home, and when his moth...
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White Fang
A loyal wolfdog’s curiosity leads him on the adventure of a lifetime while serving a series of three...
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Emma Bovary
1857. A courtroom. The prosecutor and defense counsel prepare to face off. Between them: Gustave Fla...
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Août
The story of a few couples who have arrived at a point of no return whose history will cross, mingle...
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Madame Sans Gêne
A historical comedy-drama by Victorien Sardou and Émile Moreau, concerning incidents in the life of ...
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Humans
A team of several researchers travel to the Swiss Alps to investigate a scientific discovery on huma...
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Things I Like, Things I Don't Like
Dominique Pinon takes the viewer through various examples of what he "likes and dislikes."...
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She Loved Blossoms More
Hoping to bring their dead mother back to life, three brothers build a time machine in this visually...
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Anna
French monk Dominic is sent to Kyiv, pretending to be a photographer for a French fashion magazine. ...
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Like a Fish Out of Water
A seductive femme fatale (Monica Bellucci) and two con men -- one cool as ice, and one who just like...
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Moon in a Bottle
Zeta has a month to hand in a novel she has been commissioned to write and every day she searches fo...
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Murphy's Law
After four years in jail, Elias is doing his rehabilitation in an hospital as stretcher bearer. In f...
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What War May Bring
A theater projectionist's daughter is involved in the Resistance in WWII, but she doesn’t share his ...
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Camping à la ferme
Six jeunes en difficulté de la banlieue parisienne débarquent au fin fond de la campagne française, ...
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The Legend of the Holy Drinker
Andreas Kartak, a homeless man living under the bridges of Paris, is lent 200 francs by a stranger a...
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Bigbug
Set in the world of 2045, where communities have robotic helpers, a group of suburbanites are locked...
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Betty Blue
A lackadaisical handyman and aspiring novelist tries to support his younger girlfriend as she slowly...
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Holidays by the Sea
A comedy about funny adventures of the group of French people during the summer vacation....
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Midsummer Madness
St. John’s Night is a traditional midsummer Latvian celebration where family and friends get togethe...
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OXI, an Act of Resistance
The popular resistance to the current Greek economic crisis explored and expressed through the ethic...
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Brèves de comptoir
A small, old-fashioned cafe in a suburban square, opposite the cemetery, the Hirondelle. Every day a...
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Colère
The town of Carzac Shakespeare suffered a violent attack that caused a fire in the local factory. Ma...
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An Organization of Dreams
A disillusioned writer follows the intertwining stories of several people, but are they his own inve...
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Morris: A Life with Bells On
The film follows the fortunes of an avant garde Morris team in their struggle to evolve Morris Danci...
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Mumu
The story a rescue, the rescue of a bad brat's life in the post-WWII period. In 1947, Roger reaches ...
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Mordbüro
The neologistic title of this film translates as "Death Bureau," a secret vigilante organization use...
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Parts of the Family
Beyond the front door of an old, decrepit house is buried a horrible and tragic past. One horryfing ...
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Rückfahrt in den Tod
Paul Kranz, the manager of a TEE that had just arrived from Hamburg, received terrible news in Paris...
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Follow My Gaze
A long parade of actors and actresses pop up in an unconnected series of skits, vignettes, and sight...
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Enigma
Five highly-trained KGB agents are sent to the west to assassinate several Soviet dissidents. In ord...
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The Telephone Always Rings Twice
Marc Elbichon, a novice private sleuth, is investigating a wave of assassinations bearing a particul...
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Apaches: Gang of Paris
Paris, 1884. The lives of three orphaned children wandering the streets dominated by ruthless crimin...
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Ne quittez pas !
Félix Mandel, an internationally renowned astrophysicist, is married with a four-year-old son and of...
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Sabotage!!
June, 1815. Napoleon Bonaparte, surrounded by enemies, is about to play his definitive part in histo...
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The Clown
Everybody's afraid of zombies... But try to imagine your self waking up from the dead... How would y...
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Ze Film
A poor kid nicknamed Kubrick loves movies and dreams about being an award winning director. One day,...
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The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet
A 10-year-old child prodigy cartographer secretly leaves his family's ranch in Montana where he live...
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Loonies at Large
This comedy brings Pierre Richard and Michel Piccoli together onscreen once again. In the story, for...
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Dream One
Based on Winsor McCay's comic strip, a little boy embarks on a dream-like adventure. Also known as D...
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When Evil Calls
When Evil Calls centers around the mysterious appearance of a text message that grants the students ...
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Zina
Zina, the daughter of Leon Trotsky by his first wife, is undergoing freudian analysis in Berlin in t...
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Frantic
The wife of an American doctor suddenly vanishes in Paris. To find her, he navigates a puzzling web ...
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My Old Lady
Mathias Gold is a down-on-his-luck New Yorker who inherits a Parisian apartment from his estranged f...
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The Return of Martin Guerre
Village of Artigat, southern France, summer 1542, during the reign of Francis I. Martin Guerre and B...
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Violetta, the Motorcycle Queen
After a 10-year absence, 27-year-old Amelie returns home to suburban Paris and the decaying motorcyc...
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Highway Melody
A man discovers he's no longer as close to his ear as he once was in this absurdist comedy. Jeff is ...
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Les arcandiers
In this surreal comedy, Tonio works very hard for every bit of ill-gotten cash he can get his hands ...
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Dernière Station
A customer fills up at an isolated gas station, then he sprinkles his car with gasoline and threaten...
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Soulless 2
Max Andreev thought the best place to start a new life would be at the other end of the world. What ...
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Cent francs l'amour
Jeremy, a young art photographer, needs money to finance an exhibition of his work. He turns to Mau...
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A Love You
After a drunken evening and an unforgettable night with a total stranger, Manu wakes up alone to fin...
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The Price of Desire
Irish architect and furniture designer Eileen Gray (1878–1976) was a leading light in the modern des...
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Putain, la vieille faut pas l'énerver!
Two violent bank-robbers hide in a hotel room. Traditionally, she celebrates by having sex with her ...
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The Orphan Plus Minus an Arm
Eléonore is a gorgeous twenty-year-old who has lost her parents and one of her arms in an accident. ...
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Pierre & Jeanne
Family Roland lives in Etretat. Jeanne, the youngest, inherits Mr Marechal's fortune, a friend of th...
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Diva
Jules, a young Parisian postman, secretly records a concert performance given by the opera singer Cy...
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A Saturday on Earth
A series of seemingly unconnected events and 50 important speaking parts make this film a jigsaw puz...
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Specky Four-Eyes
A young boy is made to wear corrective glasses but refuses so that his imagination of the world arou...
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Un pied dans le crime
A judge is called upon to judge a crime of which he is the guilty party. This case of conscience, w...
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My Name is Victor
No one knows, or is ever likely to know how many disabled or handicapped relatives have been hidden ...
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Max & Leon
In this WW2 epic comedy – in the vein of “La Grande Vadrouille” – our two heroes, Max and Léon, two ...
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Your Name is Justine
While living with her grandmother in Poland, a young woman falls in love. Her boyfriend is charming ...
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KO Kid
An unequal battle between a small and skinny boxer, and a big and great boxer. The film is a mixtur...
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If I Were 1000 Years Old
A long time ago, on a French island, a group of villagers saved a girl from being sacrificed by the ...
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Crédit pour tous
While unemployed, Gobert must repay 40 bank loans he had taken out. In the housing project where he ...
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Devil's Paradise
At the start of the 20th century, a man lives in solitude on an island. One day on the mainland, he ...
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La DorMeuse Duval
In a village by the Meuse river, located near the French-Belgian border, a factory storekeeper named...
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The Bridge of San Luis Rey
In 1714 Peru, a friar is tried by the Spanish Inquisition for questioning God's intentions when five...
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Vive la crise !
In a futuristic France, computers decide the fate of the unemployed and the homeless....
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Somewhere Beautiful
Two emotionally charged love triangles collide as Elena accompanies her photographer husband on a wo...
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25 décembre 58, 10h36
Two children are cycling in a street of the Butte Montmartre, one of them falls and kills himself on...
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Based on a True Story
Delphine is the author of an autobiographical novel that has become a bestseller. Exhausted by the p...
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Going and Coming Back
Salomé Lerner just finished writing an autobiography. She goes to a TV show called "Apostrophes", ho...
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Magnetick Pathways
During a night of humiliation, Raymond lives an inner revolt and a kaleidoscopic journey in a countr...
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Dikkenek
Jean-Claude is a loud-mouthed, know-it-all and full time boor who is best friends with Stef, a self-...
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La Guerre du Royal Palace
Between September 1940 and August 1944, luxury hotels are requisitioned by the Germans as staff head...
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Two Snails Set Off
A forest full of animated animals encourage a pair of snails, who are fully clad in black because th...
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The Mysterious Death of Nina Chereau
A woman accused of murder escapes an asylum and her psychiatrist tries to find her....
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Cyrano, My Love
Paris, France, December 1897. The young playwright Edmond Rostand feels like a failure. Inspiration ...
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The Moon in the Gutter
A dockworker seeking revenge on the killer of his sister finds himself the object of desire for two ...
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O Homem Pykante - Diálogos com Pimenta
A poetic film that celebrates the work of Alberto Pimenta, fruit of a friendship and complicity main...
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Sauve-toi, Lola
Lola, a young lawyer, is raising her little boy Bolivar, and sustains his family. Diagnosed with can...
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Spread Your Wings
Christian, a visionary scientist, studies wild geese. For his son, a teenager obsessed with video ga...
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I Love My Mum
A mother and son duo get inadvertently shipped in a container from London to Morocco with nothing bu...
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La Découverte
To make his neighbor no longer eye his wife, Paulo decides to put on the wall in front of his house ...
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Dark Stories to Survive the Night
What if Demons, the Living Dead, Evil Dolls, Djinn and other Extra-terrestrial creatures came to hau...
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Entrusted
Hoping to entrap Maria von Gall, who runs a courageous underground railroad for Jews in France, the ...
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A Perfect Enemy
Famed architect Jeremy Angust is approached on his trip to the Paris Airport by a chatty girl named ...
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Serial Teachers
With only 12 percent of its pupils obtaining their baccalaureate, Jules Ferry High School is the wor...
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La Gotera
A man is in his flat and he has a leak on his ceiling, suddenly the ceiling caves in and a dead man ...
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A Day at the Museum
Un conservateur terrorisé par les plantes vertes, une mère plastifiée pour être exposée, un ballet d...
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Coffeehouse Mysteries
Varying characters in historical and local transformations recount cheerful mystical stories of the ...
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Merlin ou le cours de l'or
A little tale both cruel and nostalgic but determinedly comic, on the theme of triumphant jealousy....
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At the End of the Day
In an increasingly crazy world, Lino, who has decided to leave everything behind, will come to reali...
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Memoir of a Snail
Forcibly separated from her twin brother when they are orphaned, a melancholic misfit learns how to ...
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Violette
Violette Toussaint, a cemetery caretaker in a small town in Burgundy, is a unique observer and a com...
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You Believe in Angels, Mr. Drowak?
Welcome to the grim world of Hugo Drowak. A misanthrope, boozer, and stinking old good-for-nothing. ...
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Les Misérables: The Story of Jean Valjean
Jean Valjean is released from prison after nineteen years of hard labor, violence, and suffering. Fi...
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A Door to the Woods
A story of three Poles, whose lives are interconnected, will give the audience an opportunity to rem...
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