
Anne Canovas
Actor · b. 1957 · Algiers, Algeria
Movies23
Movie5.2ComedyDuring Paris Fashion Week, models, designers and industry hot shots gather to work, mingle, argue and try to seduce one another.
Prêt-à-Porter
1994 · 233 votes
Movie6.4Science FictionDramaIn 2041, humans live side-by-side with robots and androids. A well-known cybernetic engineer, Alex Garel, returns to his hometown to create a new model of robot child.
EVA
2011 · 422 votes
Movie6.8CrimeDramaAfter growing up in a poor gypsy camp, Edmond Vidal, aka Momon, has retained a sense of family, unfailing loyalty and pride in his origins. Most of all, he has remained friends with Serge Suttel, with whom he first discovered prison life - for stealing cherries. The two of them inevitably got involved in organized crime. The team they formed, the Ganf Des Lyonnais, made them the most notorious armed robbers of the early 1970s. Their irresistible rise ended in 1974 with a spectacular arrest. Today, as he nears 60, Momon would like to forget that part of his life. He has found peace by retiring from the "business". He tends to his wife Janou, who suffered so in the past, and to his children and grandchildren, all of whom have great respect for this man of simple and universal values, so clear-headed and full of kindness. But then Serge Suttel, who has disowned nothing of his past, comes back into the picture.
Movie5.0DramaRomanceWhile visiting her sister in Paris, a young woman finds romance and learns her brother-in-law is a philanderer.
Le Divorce
2003 · 172 votes
Movie6.2DramaRomanceA young woman struggling to stay on top of everything in her life meets a married publisher and begins an affair with him.
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A painter was found burned in her studio twenty years ago. Her story resurfaces when the police begin to investigate two other homicides in Pont-Aven.
Movie6.5HorrorMysteryA young journalist buys a used typewriter and notices some text still legible on the ribbon; he reconstructs the story of a scientist who discovered that some types of terrain have the power to revive the dead.
Movie6.4DramaFrench drama, the debut film from writer-director Eléonore Faucher. Teenager Claire (Lola Naymark) discovers she is pregnant and decides to keep it a secret. Abandoning her dead-end supermarket job, she is taken on as an apprentice by couturiere Madame Mélikian (Ariane Ascaride), who is grieving over the death of her own child. As the two women work together, they soon develop a supportive and fam
Movie5.5DramaRomanceGiovanni, a married man with a child, meets on a train Maria, a former lover.
Movie6.3DramaThe tragic story of Vincent van Gogh broadened by focusing as well on his brother Theodore, who helped support Vincent. Based on the letters written between the two.
Vincent & Theo
1990 · 70 votes
Movie5.1ComedyArnaud Mustier, lawyer and brilliant philosopher, arouses the annoyance of his younger brother Jules, age sixteen. One day, Arnaud is a victim of a late adolescent crisis. Helped by Jules, he is going to catch up this phase of the life which he did not live.
Movie7.6DramaIn 1954, escorted by a sergeant, a French nun travels through Tonkin, spreading the good Catholic word as she goes. A mute child leads her to a remote village. Installed at a carpenter, the travelers prepare the projection material indispensable to their propaganda. At nightfall, in a storm, a group of maquisards surrounded the house. Fortunately, the carpenter is a respected man. The attackers withdraw. After a sudden rise in water, the mute child loses the precious message that had been entrusted to him by a wounded maquis...
Movie6.7ThrillerA boy who operates a ham radio and a man who works at a satellite relay station witness the same murder thousands of miles apart and have to figure out how to warn the next potential victim.
Movie6.0RomanceComedyA taxi driver travels to Venice and poses as a gondolier to land a radio singing job.
Broadway Gondolier
1935 · 6 votes
MovieMysteryThrillerViolette Castillon, a young Parisian lawyer, goes to the Île de Ré where a criminal named Stany claims her to ensure his defense. In exchange, he will tell her the truth about his father, the late robber José Rocca. The day after Violette's arrival on the island, Stany is attacked, a notable from the region is found hanged and other misfortunes befall the island. While the dead are multiplying around her, Violette is determined to discover the truth.
Movie4.9DramaMaria is a bright and attractive but not especially responsible young woman who is used to having things go her way in life. Out of school and with no clear career path, Maria ends up taking a job putting together cushions for chairs. But after a single day on the job she quits, claiming the work hurts her hands and she'd rather start her own restaurant. As Maria plots her next move, she impulsively swipes a piece of lingerie from a store, then tries to lie her way out of the situation when she's caught. But Maria finds that words can't get her out of this bind, and soon she's in jail and dealing with much deeper trouble than she ever imagined possible.
Movie7.0DramaTV MovieJulie de Carneilhan
1990 · 1 votes
Movie4.5ComedyOn a leave from the army, Cri-Cri gets with his friends and stumbles upon a hamlet of beautiful girls.
Movie5.7A young Algerian in Paris has not been as successful as he claims in letters home, and when his mother unexpectedly arrives for a visit of several months, he is hard put to hide his circumstances -- and the fact that he has resorted to small-time criminal activity to support himself. His mother disembarks in her traditional attire, a warm-hearted woman who does not have a clue as to how this foreign society functions but also has absolutely no inhibitions about finding out, if the need arises. As the story progresses, the mother catches on to her son's circumstances though the two are still not able to confront the deception and right it. Even with a low budget, this first-time feature-length story by Bahloul Bahloul combines satire, comedy, and pathos to bring home a relationship between mother and son that transcends life's many obstacles.
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After a confinement in a harem, an illiterate Algerian takes her revenge by reinventing herself as a writer. Under the name of Elissa Rhaïs, she becomes the darling of the literary Paris of the inter-war period, in search of oriental fantasies.
Le Secret d'Elissa Rhaïs
1993 · 1 votes
Movie4.5CrimeDramaRoxana Orlac, a famous violinist, loses the use of her hands in a terrible lift accident. Her career as a virtuoso seems to be over until Professor Christansen offers her a transplant of two new hands. What he omits to tell her is that the two hands in question belonged to a woman who murdered her own children. When unexplained incidents happen, followed by a murder in Roxana's entourage, she starts to wonder whether her new hands may be committing crimes of which she's unaware. Police Capitain Almeida, in charge of the investigation, falls in love with Roxana, but she remains the prime suspect. Is it possible that Roxana's hands are urging Roxana to do terrible things she's not even conscious of? Or is she the victim of some terrible plot?
Movie5.5DramaMarie is a young woman with a troubled past. Her passion is painting, but she never had any formal training. Living in the South of France, she takes whatever work she can get to make ends meet. Then she befriends the elderly painter Jaume and he becomes her mentor. But their relationship is not an easy one: Jaume has Alzheimer's disease.
Movie7.2ComedyDramaThe life and love affairs of a 12-year-old boy Pierre who lived in France during the Nazi occupation in 1944. We see his family, his chubby friend, the girl who ignores him - and the German defector who hides in the cellar. He suffers from a slightly more prominent nasal appendage than the average of his congeners. This complex initially serving it, will ultimately be the detonator of his success with women and the entire population of the city.
Series13
TV6.8Talk ShowChamps-Elysées
1982 · 9 votes
TV7.3MysteryDramaMurders in... is a collection of French-Belgian police TV movies taking place each time in a different French city and region.
TV7.1CrimeThe series follows the adventures of lighthearted Jean-Paul Moulin, a police Commissaire, and his team as they solve crimes.
TV7.4CrimeMysteryFrench adaptations of the stories by Agatha Christie.
TV6.2DramaAction & AdventureAfter his proposal to sail west to the East Indies is rejected by Portugal, Columbus overcomes court intrigue in Spain to gain support for his expedition.
TV7.1CrimeDramaIn 1991, 24-year-old Detective Alexandre Falco has it all, a loving wife, a new-born daughter and his dream job. But one day out in the field, he is shot in the head. Falco opens his eyes again 22 years later to a changed world, where everything he once had is no longer as it was.
Falco
2013 · 22 votes
TV8.0CrimeDramaJuly 2006, the city of Aix-en-Provence is under particular strain. The trial of Mathias Rousseau, the man who called himself the "Zodiac," is about to begin. Called back to France to testify, Esther Delaître moves in with Quentin, the child she adopted, at her brother Jérôme's house on the shores of Lake Geneva in Switzerland. But the disappearance of little Lucie Daguerre throws everything into question. The family of the missing child runs the Daguerre Institute, a renowned school where Mathias had stayed for a few months when he was younger. Is the "Zodiac" pulling the strings from his prison cell? Is he the victim of an imitator? This new case takes Esther back two years...
TVComedyLes Bougon
2008
TVDramaA vision of youth in Western Europe in the 50s, literature, jazz, politics and wars intermingle in their dreams, ideals and their first loves.
TV7.3DramaSuicidal Françoise Sorel wants to be buried in Castelnac, the village she was born in Périgord. Her daughter Lola, discovers she doesn't know anything about her parents and their past life. She spends a few days in Castelnac. A man, an ex-friend of her father's, is murdered and Lola is the main suspect...
Ange de feu
2006 · 3 votes
TV8.0Le Jeune Homme vert
1979 · 1 votes
TV9.5Blanc, Bleu, Rouge
1981 · 2 votes
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Un Bambino in Fuga - Tre Anni Dopo
1990 · 1 votes