Wolfgang Pissors
Actor · b. 1958 · Lindenberg im Allgäu, Germany
Movies20
Movie6.5ActionScience FictionA woman, accidentally caught in a dark deal, turns the tables on her captors and transforms into a merciless warrior evolved beyond human logic.
Lucy
2014 · 17K votes
Movie6.9DramaHistoryThe Queen is an intimate behind the scenes glimpse at the interaction between HM Elizabeth II and Prime Minister Tony Blair during their struggle, following the death of Diana, to reach a compromise between what was a private tragedy for the Royal family and the public's demand for an overt display of mourning.
The Queen
2006 · 1.5K votes
Movie6.5ComedyRomanceAfter her fiancee admits to infidelity while on a business trip in France, a woman attempts to get her lover back and marry him by traveling to Paris despite her crippling fear of flying. On the way she unwittingly smuggles something of value that has a charming crook chasing her across France as she chases after her future husband.
French Kiss
1995 · 826 votes
Movie6.5ComedyDramaSet in the 1920s French Riviera, a master magician is commissioned to try and expose a psychic as a fraud.
Magic in the Moonlight
2014 · 2.2K votes
Movie6.0AdventureDramaAfter a powerful billionaire is murdered, his secret adoptive son must race to prove his legitimacy, find his father's killers and stop them from taking over his financial empire.
Movie6.6WarHistoryMay 1944, a group of French servicewomen and resistance fighters are enlisted into the British Special Operations Executive commando group under the command of Louise Desfontaines and her brother Pierre. Their mission, to rescue a British army geologist caught reconnoitering the beaches at Normandy.
Movie5.8ActionAdventurePropelled to the head of the W Group after the death of his adoptive father, Largo Winch decides, to everyone's surprise, to sell it, and use the proceeds to create an ambitious humanitarian foundation. But on the very same day, he finds himself accused of crimes against humanity by a mysterious witness. To prove his innocence, Largo will have to retrace the steps of his past life, in the heart of the Burmese jungle.
Largo Winch II
2011 · 416 votes
Movie4.8DramaRomanceYear 1763. Forced into exile, the famous libertine Giacomo Casanova leaves Paris and travels to London, where he meets Marianne de Charpillon, a young prostitute to whom he is so attracted that he forgets about the other women.
Movie7.0ComedyDramaIn 1942, in an occupied Paris, the apolitical grocer Edmond Batignole lives with his wife and daughter in a small apartment in the building of his grocery. When his future son-in-law and collaborator of the German Pierre-Jean Lamour calls the Nazis to arrest the Jewish Bernstein family, they move to the confiscated apartment. Some days later, the young Simon Bernstein escapes from the Germans and comes to his former home. When Batignole finds him, he feels sorry for the boy and lodges him, hiding Simon from Pierre-Jean and also from his wife. Later, two cousins of Simon meet him in the cellar of the grocery. When Pierre-Jean finds the children, Batignole decides to travel with the children to Switzerland.
Monsieur Batignole
2002 · 251 votes
Movie6.8DramaCrimeIn 1982, André Bamberski learns about the death of his 14 year-old daughter, Kalinka, while she was on vacation with her mother and stepfather in Germany. Convinced that Kalinka’s death was not an accident, Bamberski begins to investigate. A botched autopsy report raises his suspicions and leads him to accuse Kalinka’s stepfather, Dr Dieter Krombach, as the murderer. Unable to indict Krombach in Germany, Bamberski attempts to take the trial to France, where he will dedicate his life to Kalinka’s justice and the imprisonment of Krombach.
Movie5.7DramaThrillerAn ambitious Judge and an exacting Colonel re-open the sixty-year-old case of Pierre Brossard, an escaped Nazi collaborator accused of murdering seven Jews. Now an old man living a sheltered life within the Catholic Church, Brossard is also being trailed by mysterious hit men, determined to kill him before he's arrested.
The Statement
2003 · 84 votes
Movie5.4ComedyDramaA young girl is plucked from small-town obscurity and thrust into the spotlight of the glamorous world of super-models.
Stardom
2000 · 33 votes
Movie6.5DramaWarDuring the Nazi occupation of France, two filmmakers try to build a career without compromising their ideals.
Movie6.3DramaComedyOn the eve of World War II four Parisians cope with the impending invasion of their city by German forces. While the French government braces for impact, the intersected lives of a young writer, a vain movie star, a French politician and a young scientist are examined as they attempt to deal with war and evade German spies.
Bon voyage
2003 · 106 votes
Movie6.6DramaHistoryIn WWII France, poor and illiterate Henri Fortin is introduced to Victor Hugo's classic novel Les Misérables and begins to see parallels between the book and his own life.
Movie5.7ComedyAdventureThe Three Wise Men – Balthazar, Melchior and Gaspard – are on their way to Bethlehem to pay homage to the infant Jesus when they are suddenly, an inexplicably, transported two thousand years into the future. They find themselves walking the streets of Paris, where they encounter a young woman called Macha who, they are convinced, will lead them to the newborn Messiah.
Movie7.2DramaTV MovieIn France in 1942. Blanche and Virgile live in the free zone and use a boat to help a local network of resistance fighters and refugees. One day the couple propose to take in Sarah, a Jewish child who is impatiently awaiting her parents
Les Enfants des justes
2022 · 21 votes
Movie5.9DramaHistoryVictor Perez was a Jewish boxer who became world flyweight champion in 1931 and 1932, but was transported to Auschwitz concentration camp when Paris fell to the Nazi s in 1943. While there he was forced into slave labour and made to participate in violent boxing matches for the amusement of the Nazi guards. Surviving Auschwitz tells Victors astonishing, harrowing, brutal and incredibly moving true story.
Victor Young Perez
2013 · 23 votes
Movie7.5DramaWarIn Paris in 1935, a young Jewish woman married to an anti-fascist activist befriends her neighbor who is dating a far-right supporter.
Deux femmes à Paris
2000 · 2 votes
Movie6.3DramaMysteryWhen Jeanne, the recognized sous chef of the Ritz Paris, discovers her son has been kidnapped, she must make some difficult decisions.